The spread between French and German benchmark bond yields widened, signaling investor unease about France's public finances.

Mayotte is France's poorest region and is nearly 5,000 miles from Paris in the Indian Ocean - one witness said the damage wreaked by the cyclone looked like "the aftermath of a nuclear war".

The cyclone has left health services in tatters, with the hospital extremely damaged and health centres knocked out of operation.

Cyclone Chido caused major damage to Mayotte's airport and cut off electricity, water and communication links when it ...

Several hundred people and possibly even thousands may have been killed when the most powerful cyclone in nearly a century hit the French Indian Ocean archipelago of Mayotte, a senior local French ...

PARIS — French President Emmanuel Macron on Friday named centrist ally François Bayrou as prime minister, after a historic ...

The death toll in the French territory of Mayotte from Cyclone Chido is "several hundred" and may run into the thousands.

The reopening of Notre Dame was a solemn celebration of cultural and spiritual renewal. Yet for some, the historic ...

Pope Francis on the first papal visit ever to the French island of Corsica promoted the kind of popular piety that ...

Several hundred people, maybe even thousands, may have been killed when the most powerful cyclone in nearly a century hit the ...

During the first papal visit ever to the French island of Corsica on Sunday, Pope Francis called for a dynamic form of laicism, promoting the kind of popular piety that distinguishe ...