PARIS — President Nicolas Sarkozy of France reappointed Francois Fillon the country’s prime minister and named a new, more rightist Cabinet on Sunday, a day after Fillon and the previous government resigned.

France has declared war on al-Qaida, and matched its fighting words with a first attack on a base camp of the terror network’s North African branch, after the terror network killed a French aid worker it took hostage in April. The declaration and...

A judge has issued an arrest warrant for cyclist Floyd Landis for allegedly hacking into a French anti-doping agency laboratory computer. Landis was stripped of the 2006 Tour de France title after testing positive for excess levels of testosterone.

For decades, the French considered it taboo to question whether immigration and foreign influences were diluting France’s social and cultural character. Indeed, the topic was considered so toxic that no one in France besides extreme-right leader...

The Reform Act of 1832 swept away dozens of Britain’s “rotten boroughs”, where comfortable sinecures were left in the hands of a tiny number of voters. The 2009 Lisbon treaty will give an electorate of 27 the power to choose the president of...

Some of Claire Vincent’s colleagues at France Telecom keep a box of anti-depressants on their desks, out in the open. “When things get too much you just pop one,” she said. Vincent, who is 50, and has been with France Telecom for 27...

It has been billed as France’s political trial of the decade, a saga worthy of the darkest spy thriller that threatens to expose poisonous machinations and backstabbing at the highest reaches of the French state. Tomorrow morning, in the...

France’s anything-but-red baron, Philippe de Villiers, has described President Nicolas Sarkozy as an “impostor”, “a liar” and a “Duracell bunny”. That was in the distant, political past – a couple of months...

Britain and the rest of the European Union are ignoring a demographic time bomb: a recent rush into the EU by migrants, including millions of Muslims, will change the continent beyond recognition over the next two decades, and almost no policy-makers...

It happened in Baku, transforming the capital of Azerbaijan into a battleground in a global shadow war. Police intercepted a fleeing car and captured two suspected Hezbollah militants from Lebanon. The car contained explosives, binoculars, cameras,...