Visited by nearly six million Christian pilgrims every year, the site is turning to the faithful for financial relief after storms inundated the celebrated grotto and vast subterranean church.

Free trade across the Atlantic is good for everyone, but the politics will require some flexibility.

Photos from Brazil, Somalia, Afghanistan and France.

Europe has been enduring another year of unseasonable weather, and climate scientists warn that the pattern of extended winters and wet summers could last for years. Is it a natural phenomenon or does man-made climate change play a part?

The French public and news media were closely following the case against Franck Ribéry and Karim Benzema, who are accused of paying an under-age girl for sex.

Two men tried to remove the woman’s head scarf and later cut off her hair while repeatedly shouting anti-Islamic taunts, her lawyer said.

Google Maps has expanded its bike route directions to seven additional countries in Europe, including France, Germany, and Poland.

Privacy guardians in Europe want the ability to erase some online material, known as “the right to be forgotten,” but archivists and historians object.

The Prix de Diane is the most important annual test in France for 3-year-old fillies and is a fixture on the early summer social calendar in France.

After a 20-year effort spearheaded by the Aga Khan, Chantilly has become not only France's top training center but also one of the best in the world.

Here’s an exclusive peek inside the legendary brand’s workshops on the outskirts of Paris, where skilled artisans have crafted those famous trunks and bags for more than 150 years.

Intelligence reports indicate that the government of President Bashar al-Assad has regained a tactical initiative, drawing on Hezbollah fighters, government militias and its advantage in heavy weaponry.

Stéphane Richard, the chief executive of France Télécom, is being investigated on suspicion of organized fraud, according to the Paris prosecutor’s office.

In preparation for loosening trade barriers between Europe and the United States, France fears Netflix and other American companies are a threat to its entertainment industry.

The devices that mimic tobacco cigarettes are growing in popularity even as regulators in Europe and the United States weigh their risks.

A budding recovery of the property market in 2010 was cut short by the Greek economic crisis and uncertainty over the French election.

Prosecutors said Stéphane Richard would be formally investigated for his role in a case that has already swept up the head of the International Monetary Fund.

The French civil aviation authority said that it expected 1,800 flights, roughly half of all scheduled, to be canceled Wednesday, but foresaw a return to normal by Thursday.

The prosecutors cited insufficient evidence to keep Dominique Strauss-Kahn, charged with involvement in a prostitution ring, under formal investigation.

Prosecutors are seeking to drop charges against Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the former managing director of the International Monetary Fund, in connection with a prostitution ring.