CAEN, France: The emotion of being liberated from Nazi occupation was so sweet and intense that the French refugees burst into song, a spontaneous rendition...
LUDRES, France: After decades of searching, Andre Gantois had completely lost hope. The retired French postal worker figured he’d likely go to his grave...
BEAUMONT-SUR-OISE, France: Master Yoda, dust off his French, he must. It's now easier than ever in France to act out "Star Wars" fantasies,...
PARIS: Emmanuel Macron won’t be rushed. The 24-hour news cycle? The French leader isn’t interested. At least, that’s what he wants people to think.France’s...
PARIS: The first paying guests to the ground-floor studio flat newly posted on Airbnb were innocuous enough: A family, come to experience the joys of Paris,...
PARIS: It was late 1945, and distrust of Russia was rising. British military planners had recently hatched secret plans, codenamed “Unthinkable,” to attack...
For three weeks, as the Tour de France riders did their thing, a team of Associated Press journalists who followed them valiantly ate and drank their way...
PARIS: Winning the French presidency was Step 1 for Emmanuel Macron. Step 2 is nailing down the parliamentary majority France’s youngest-ever president needs...
Editor’s note: John Leicester has reported from France for the Associated Press since 2002. This week, he got to try zip lining off the Eiffel Tower....
PARIS: President-elect Emmanuel Macron has been loud and clear on his policy of keeping France at the center of the European Union. Less certain, however, is...
PARIS: When France last put a Le Pen onto the threshold of the presidential Elysee Palace, one step from power, it could write off the 2002 election shock as...
PARIS: A French presidential campaign that’s been filled with unprecedented twists and turns still has surprises in store heading into Sunday’s first-round...
PARIS: Amnesty International says “toxic” fear-mongering by anti-establishment politicians, among them President Donald Trump and the leaders of Turkey,...
TRAPPES, France: At the “Friz-Lys” styling salon, Jocelyne Gisquet is luxuriating in the freedom of answering emails with a laptop balanced on her knees while...
PARIS: By ramming his truck into a Bastille Day celebration of liberte and fraternite, the driver delivered a murderous message for France: No matter who you...
PARIS: Ronaldo, Messi, Messi, Messi, Messi, Ronaldo.Yawn.Time for a new winner of the Ballon d’Or.Why? Because football is not and must not become solely...
Murder, pure and simple. For football coach Hugo Broos, no other word is fitting for the death of his player, Albert Ebosse. The deadly weapon was perhaps a...
BELO HORIZONTE, Brazil: Because it is turning out better than expected, the World Cup is doing more good than harm to brand Brazil. The opposite is true for...
BELO HORIZONTE: Once the elation of victory and the hangovers wear off, Brazil should feel the cold shiver of World Cup disaster narrowly averted. The...
BELO HORIZONTE, Brazil: How is it that footballers are among the few who’ve not had much to say about the bite seen around the world, now punished with...
Secret slush funds, junkets, gifts and payments to football officials. At first glance, the latest allegations that a Qatari official greased palms to help...
PARIS: As Earth’s atmosphere warms alarmingly and fills with heat-trapping gases, and the writing on the wall – “People, we’re in trouble!” – looms ever...
SOCHI, Russia: As Adelina Sotnikova finished her gold medal-winning skate, only the Olympic ice felt nothing, because it is cold and hard. Russian hearts...
COSTA DO SAUIPE, Brazil: If they wanted to look wasteful, extravagant and divorced from the gritty reality of Brazil’s millions of poor, World Cup organizers...
PARIS: Even though it comes around comet-like just once every four years, or perhaps precisely because of that, the World Cup’s grip on the...