Articles
France Mulls Culture Tax on Smartphones and Tablets
PARIS (AP) -- The French government is considering creating a new tax on smartphones and tablets in a bid to raise millions to support the creation of digital...
France to Auction Wines From Presidential Cellar
1,200 of the Élysée Palace's finest vintages will be up for bidding, and some of the money will reportedly be funneled into the cash-strapped country's budget.
France Legalizes Gay Marriage After Harsh Debate
(PARIS) — French lawmakers have legalized same-sex marriage after months of bruising debate and street protests that brought hundreds of thousands to Paris. ...
France Wants to Be Able to Arm Syrian Rebels
(PARIS) — The French foreign minister says France is ready to help arm Syrian opposition fighters and is pushing for an urgent European Union meeting on lifting...
Kerry, in France, Looks at Next Steps on Syria
(PARIS) -- New U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry has held his first official meeting with France's leadership amid increasing efforts by both countries to...
Photo Essays
Germany Surrenders at Reims, May 7, 1945: A Photographer’s Story
On a rainy Saturday night in early May, 1945, LIFE photographer Ralph Morse was working in his hotel room in Paris, writing captions for a series of photos he’d...
The Practice of Medicine, Perfected: Portrait of a Doctor, France, 1953
So much has been written about the American healthcare system in recent years — in short, that it’s an insanely byzantine, profit-driven train wreck — that it’s...
Time.com Specials
Top 10 Weirdest Theme Parks: Welcome to Napoleonland!
As more details are unveiled about France's forthcoming Napoleonland, TIME takes a look at other off-beat attractions
Top 10 Sporting Cheats
Up until recently, Floyd Landis was in a lengthy legal battle to recover his 2006 Tour de France victory, lost after a test showed he had elevated levels of...
Articles from Around the Web
VIDEO: Acrobats in India and other arts stories
The French circus performance group Mana brings their dazzling displays of acrobatics to India, a retrospective of the work of the Baroque artist Rubens in France - and other...
Germany, France and Britain Push to List Hezbollah as a Terror Group
A day after Britain's announcement, Germany also said it supported listing the military wing of Hezbollah as a terrorist organization, a move that could hurt the Lebanese...
VIDEO: Rocket mountain bike beats record
The record for the top speed reached on a mountain bike was broken on Sunday in eastern France ...
Pregnant woman refused on ferry
A heavily pregnant woman from Cornwall is refused permission to board a cross-Channel ferry from France to England. ...
