Mr. Michel was convicted in April 2023 of 10 criminal counts, including money laundering, illegal lobbying and witness tampering. By Hannah Ziegler A founding member of the hip-hop group the Fugees ...

The historic—and fragile—island abbey is France’s most visited site outside of Paris. As it heads into its millennium year, a new sustainable development plan aims to protect it for the future. This ...

Michel H. Devoret, the Frederick W. Beinecke Professor Emeritus of Applied Physics at Yale University, who has spent a career probing the intricate dynamics of qubits and quantum information, has won ...

The family of a British man held in India without trial for seven years for alleged corruption has demanded the government intervene to secure his release. Christian Michel, 63, has been held since ...

Mont-Saint-Michel, in the French region of Normandy, is more than just a UNESCO World Heritage site. It's also a tiny village, home to just 30 residents. But the tidal island welcomes around 3 million ...

Paris — French Prime Minister Michel Barnier on Thursday was meeting Emmanuel Macron to submit his resignation after losing a vote of no confidence in parliament, with the president urgently seeking ...

The French National Assembly passed a vote of no-confidence on Wednesday, effectively collapsing the current government. A total of 331 members voted in favor of the motion, exceeding the 288 votes ...

Charles Michel was born in the Belgian town of Namur in 1975, when the European Union consisted of only nine member states. He grew up listening to the stories of his parents and grandparents, who had ...

It was a scene ripped from a John le Carré novel. But here’s the part that le Carré’s editors would have rejected as wildly implausible. The man is Pras Michél, founder of the legendary hip-hop band ...

Michel Blanc, the French actor known for the “Les Bronzés” films and crime drama “Monsieur Hire,” has died. He was 72. Blanc died early Friday morning after suffering a heart attack the previous night ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. I meet Michel Houellebecq at Maison Péret, a busy brasserie serving regional French cuisine in Paris’s 14th ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Michel Barnier, the EU’s former Brexit negotiator now picked as prime minister to help France avoid a political ...