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• World powers coax Iran into saving nuclear talks

  February 27, 2013 8:32 PM

  ALMATY, Kazakhstan (AP) - World powers offered broader concessions than ever to Iran in attempts Wednesday to keep alive diplomatic channels that seek to rein in the Islamic Republic's nuclear program and prevent it from building an atomic weapon. The offer was hailed by Saeed Jalili, Iran's top official at... more »

• 'Spiderman' strikes again west of Paris

  May 10, 2012 8:47 PM

  PARIS (AP) - The French skyscraper climber known to some as Spiderman has struck again: This time, on France's new tallest building. Alain Robert scaled the recently heightened First tower in La Defense business district west of Paris on Thursday. Hundreds of onlookers peered out of its windows or craned... more »

• 6-year-old dies in France floor collapse

  April 8, 2012 11:35 PM

  PARIS (AP) - French officials say a floor has collapsed in a building where an Easter religious ceremony was being held, killing a 6-year-old and seriously injuring four other people. The collapse occurred Sunday afternoon at a two-story house used by an evangelical group for religious ceremonies in Stains, a... more »

• Clinton: New round of Iran nuclear talks set for Turkey

  March 31, 2012 10:29 AM

  RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) - U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton says Iran and six world powers have agreed to meet in Istanbul on April 13 for the latest round of talks about Iran's nuclear program. Clinton made the announcement at a news conference Saturday following a security conference... more »

• 6-year sentence sought in French terror trial

  March 30, 2012 8:22 PM

  PARIS (AP) - A French prosecutor has asked a Paris court to sentence an Algerian-born nuclear physicist to six years in prison for his suspected role in plotting terrorism with al-Qaida's north African wing. The request came at the end of the two-day trial of Adlene Hicheur, a former researcher... more »

• French spymaster: Gunman didn't plan school attack

  March 23, 2012 1:47 PM

  PARIS (AP) - French President Nicolas Sarkozy's spy chief says a gunman who killed three young children and a rabbi at a Jewish school only attacked the school after missing his original target - a French soldier. Ange Mancini, Sarkozy's intelligence adviser, said on French TV that Mohamed Merah had... more »

• Killing spree suspect dead after standoff

  March 22, 2012 7:08 AM

  TOULOUSE, France (AP) - A police official says that the suspect in a three-attack killing spree who claims links to al-Qaida is dead. The official, Didier Martinez of the Unite SGP police union, says the news was announced Thursday on the police radio shortly after a 5-minute volley of gunfire.... more »

• France shooting suspect holes up in building

  March 21, 2012 6:33 AM

  TOULOUSE, France (AP) - France's interior minister says a gunman suspected in a wave of killings has stopped talking to police, and that authorities have been monitoring him for years. Claude Gueant was speaking Wednesday in the southern city of Toulouse, where a police raid is under way targeting the... more »

• Obama heads to G-20 amid questions on Greece

  November 2, 2011 8:00 PM

  WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama is en route to France for an economic summit that's shadowed by the European debt crisis and Greece's surprise plans to put a bailout deal to a popular vote. The Group of 20 industrialized and developed nations meets Thursday and Friday in Cannes.... more »

• Local veteran remembers invading on D-Day

  June 6, 2011 8:27 PM

  June 6th, 1944 Allied forces stormed the beach of Normandy, France, fighting soldiers from Nazi Germany. "War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things," that's the first line of a plaque in the home of retired Army Major Duke Boswell. It rings especially true in his... more »

• Local D-Day veteran shares memories of the historic invasion

  June 6, 2011 4:19 PM

  It's been 67 years since 160,000 Allied forces landed on the beaches of Normandy, France, fighting the Nazi Germans. Colorado Springs local Duke Boswell was a paratrooper during the invasion; he spoke with NF5 about that day, and its historical impact since. We'll have parts of that conversation Monday night... more »

• French military jet fires on Libyan military vehicle

  March 19, 2011 4:58 PM

  PARIS (AP) - A French official says a French fighter jet has fired on a Libyan military vehicle, in a first reported strike in the international campaign to enforce a no-fly zone. A French Defense Ministry spokesman, Thierry Burkhard, says the strike was reported around 1645 GMT Saturday. ... more »

• US begins assault against Libyan air defenses

  March 19, 2011 4:18 PM

  WASHINGTON (AP) - The U.S. military has launched a missile attack against Libya's air defenses. A senior U.S. military official says the strike was aimed at sites along the Libyan coast. The missiles were launched from U.S. Navy vessels in the Mediterranean. The official says the assault would... more »

• More protests in France over entitlement change

  November 6, 2010 11:25 AM

  PARIS (AP) - Tens of thousands of protesters are marching throughout France in the latest emonstrations against plans to raise the retirement age that are awaiting President Nicolas Sarkozy's signature. The marches amount to a last-ditch attempt led by labor unions to derail the conservative government's aim to boost... more »

• US enters top 20 in ending gender bias

  October 13, 2010 8:33 AM

  A newly released survey of 134 nations shows four Nordic countries lead the world in eliminating inequality between men and women. Iceland, Finland, Norway and Sweden have topped the Global Gender Gap Index since it was first released in 2006 by the Geneva-based World Economic Forum, and Iceland remained... more »

• West coast vintners hope late harvest makes fine wine

  October 11, 2010 9:47 AM

  Growers along the West Coast are rushing to pick grapes after a cool summer led to a late harvest. Jon Emmerich of Silverado Vineyards in California's Napa valley says the harvest is running about three weeks behind because workers were waiting to let the grapes ripen. Growers in... more »

• Woody Allen defends his latest find, Bruni-Sarkozy

  September 13, 2010 8:22 AM

  Woody Allen loves shooting in Paris. He doesn't care for the gossip about one of his co-stars, France's first lady, Carla Bruni-Sarkozy. Allen says he was shocked at gossip column reports that Bruni-Sarkozy was a handful on the set of his romantic comedy "Midnight in Paris" or that he... more »

• Obesity impact on sexual health

  June 16, 2010 10:54 AM

  A new study looks at how obesity may impact sexual health. French researchers surveyed over 12,000 adults about their sexual behavior. Obese men were two and half times more likely to have problems with erectile dysfunction than normal weight men. Obese women had four times the number... more »

• US Apple iPad sales to begin April 3

  March 5, 2010 9:16 AM

  Apple says its much-anticipated iPad tablet will hit U.S. store shelves on April 3. Apple had originally said the device would be released worldwide in March. Apple Inc. said Friday the Wi-Fi models will go on sale first. iPads that can connect to Wi-Fi as well as 3G cellular... more »

• USA Olympic Medals

  February 19, 2010 9:40 AM

  Gold: 6 Silver: 5 Bronze: 7 The United States continues to lead the medal count at the Winter Olympics in Vancouver with 18 overall. Germany is in second place with 11, followed by Norway with 8. Host country Canada is tied with France for fourth place with 7 medals... more »

• France unloading swine flu vaccine stockpile

  January 4, 2010 11:52 AM

  France is trying to sell off excess doses of swine flu vaccine. The population of France is just 62-million, but the country purchased 94-million doses of the vaccine. Used so far: 5-million. Qatar has agreed to buy 300,000 doses, while Egypt and Ukraine have also expressed an interest.... more »

• CIA says 7 employees killed in Afghan attack

  December 31, 2009 12:19 PM

  The Taliban claimed responsibility Thursday for infiltrating a CIA base with a suicide bomber who got into a gym and set off an explosion that killed eight Americans and an Afghan. Seven CIA employees were among the victims. Wednesday's assault on U.S. Forward Operating Base Chapman at the edge... more »

• 2012 Figure Skating worlds to be held in Nice

  November 30, 2009 11:50 AM

  The 2012 World Figure Skating Championships will be held in Nice, France. The International Skating Union has scheduled the annual competition to take place in the Mediterranean resort city from March 26-April 1 that year. It will be the seventh time France has hosted the worldchampionships. It last staged the... more »

• Escape the rat race by spending a night as a human hamster

  November 17, 2009 11:20 AM

  If an ordinary hotel stay is just too boring for you, a French hotel is giving visitors the chance to see what it's like to be a hamster. For a little under $150 a night, a hotel in Nantes can hook you up with a room complete with hamster costumes,... more »

• Stinky blue-green algae blamed for dog deaths

  September 28, 2009 11:22 AM

  Waterways across the upper Midwest are increasingly plagued with ugly, smelly and potentially deadly blue-green algae, bloomed by drought and fertilizer runoffs from farm fields, that's killed dozens of dogs and sickened many people. Aquatic biologists say it's a problem that falls somewhere between a human health concern and... more »

• US, UK and France tell Iran to open nuke site

  September 25, 2009 12:45 PM

  The leaders of the U.S., Britain and France are demanding that Iran fully disclose its nuclear ambitions "or be held accountable" to the world community. Amid the disclosure of a secret Iranian nuclear facility today, President Barack Obama declared that Tehran is "breaking rules that all nations must follow" aimed... more »

• Europe fails to agree on bluefin tuna ban

  September 23, 2009 11:21 AM

  A sharply divided European Union failed Tuesday to protect the threatened bluefin tuna, as the bloc's Mediterranean nations refused to back even a temporary a ban on catching the fish prized by sushi aficionados. The EU's executive commission urged EU governments to agree to a temporary ban until the... more »