France's poet-pol back on world stage
448291
It's not likely to make President George W. Bush's reading list anytime soon, but a new book out in France recalls -- for those who may have forgotten -- that transatlantic disagreements are alive and kicking.
174066
Aymeric Jeanneau has become one of those understudy-makes-good stories. The man who had to replace the injured Tony Parker as the starting point guard for France, led his country into the quarterfinals of the FIBA world championships for the first time in 43 years. Jeanneau scored 16 points, including six free throws in the final 36 seconds, and France held off Angola 68-62 on Sunday in a second-round victory.
187087
CLAMART, France - A senior Islamic cleric arrived in France on Wednesday to visit the bedside of the ailing Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, Palestinian officials said.
504212
With the reopening of the Bode Museum, a cultural park in the former East Berlin has taken another step toward recovering its place as one of the worldÂs great centers of art.
525102
CLICHY-SOUS-BOUS, Sep 24 (IPS) - The community in this Paris suburb is waiting  keenly for transformation promised by France's new  government.
557326
The company's original visionary returns to the helm.
419624
CLAMART, France - Tests on Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat showed problems with his digestion, but he has recovered sufficiently to undergo examinations that could not have been done when he was first rushed to France, an aide said yesterday.
64602
Jean-Marie Le Pen is shaking up France's election season, thanks to some surprising new supporters
58312
In this country, poetry is like national therapy for ills in the body politic.
270030
Veteran filmmaker Lekh Tandon is making a grand comeback to films.
107779
Gulzar, the poet-extraordinaire, has just returned from a 12-day tour of Japan and says he recited his poems on Iraq
570002
Â· Broadcast from France aims at return to power Â· Former dictator blamed for thousands of deaths
447986
Fayrouz, the great Lebanese diva, returned to Damascus for the first time in three decades, a performance some considered a betrayal.
370229
French actor Gerard Depardieu has said in a new book that he has undergone a liver transplant. Plus other entertainment news in brief.
119793
President Nicolas Sarkozy has returned from his summer vacation with a golden tan but somewhat sapped of his superstar glow.
708485
IN HIM France gave the world one of the major figures of the intellectual life of our times, announced Jacques Chirac, the French president, on the day after Jacques Derrida's death.
667061
The beloved Lebanese singer Fairouz went to Damascus Thursday to perform for the first time in almost three decades, angering some of her country's top anti-Syrian politicians who accused her of entertaining tyrants.