The city of romance got a lesson in love’s hard knocks Sunday, as thousands flocked to the French capital’s first divorce fair. In France, nearly one out of two marriages ends in divorce, according to the country’s National Institute...

The 23-year-old son of French President Nicolas Sarkozy has said he is withdrawing from a bid to run the country’s top business district. The bid by Jean Sarkozy, who is yet to complete his undergraduate law studies, had triggered accusations of...

The heavily taxed French like to grouse about all the levies they pay, but there’s a new tax that’s turned that constant grumble into a roar. Called la taxe carbone, or the carbon tax, the new levy would charge businesses and individuals...

A number of iPhones that reportedly “exploded” in France were not due to the battery overheating as had been suggested, Apple has said. The firm said that all of the handsets they had seen with broken screens were caused by an...