French singer Henri Salvador dies
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Henri Salvador, the French crooner credited with inspiring the bossa nova, dies in Paris at the age of 90.
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Prominent Haitian intellectual and politician Gerard Pierre-Charles has died of heart failure in Cuba, where he was receiving emergency treatment for a lung infection, friends and colleagues said Monday. He was 68.
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The colourful life of French mercenary Bob Denard, who died on 14 October at the age of 78.
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A French man has been shot to death in Saudi Arabia, in what Saudi authorities say appears to be a terrorist attack. The victim, identified as Laurent Barbot, was killed early Sunday in his car in the Red Sea port of Jeddah.
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Marcel Marceau, the French mime artist who for 60 years transfixed international audiences with his stage persona Bip the Clown, has died at the age of 84, relatives said Sunday.
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N'DJAMENA  - Chad's Prime Minister Pascal Yoadimnadji died from a brain haemorrhage in Paris on Friday after he was flown there for urgent treatment following a heart attack. He was 56.
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Marcel Marceau, the world's best-known mime artist who for decades moved audiences around the world without uttering a single word, has died aged 84.
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Regine Crespin, the French opera great who took her personal magnetism and soprano voice to the world's leading stages, died Thursday. She was 80.
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Writer Henri Troyat, who fled Russia's revolution as a child and went on to become one of France's most prolific, popular and respected authors, has died, the Academie Francaise said Monday. He was 95.
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Singer and author died at his London home, aged 80.
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The death of one of the greatest figures in modern French literature, Henri Troyat, is announced in Paris.
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Yasser Arafat, the guerrilla icon turned  Nobel Peace prize winner who ended up isolated and locked in  renewed conflict with Israel, died in France on Thursday, his  dream of a Palestinian state unfulfilled. He was 75.
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Frankie Laine, the full-voiced singer who became one of the most popular entertainers of the 1950s with such hits as "I Believe," "Jezebel" and the theme to the TV Western "Rawhide", died on Tuesday at 93.
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French film and television composer Michel Colombier, who was a co-author of the score for Prince's film "Purple Rain" and who collaborated with a galaxy of French stars including Charles Aznavour and Serge Gainsbourg, has died at age 65, his family said on Wednesday.
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The French mime artist Marcel Marceau has died at the age of 83, one of his children told AFP on Sunday.
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The world's best-known mime artist, Marcel Marceau, has died, France Info radio said on Sunday, saying his family had informed it of his death.
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Medina: A French teenager wounded in an attack that killed three compatriots in Saudi Arabia died on Tuesday.Comment