Thousands feared dead after ‘horrific’ few hours as cyclone hits French territory - Chido hit Mayotte overnight with winds of ...

Within hours of being appointed, France's new prime minister Francois Bayrou faced his first ordeal: the country's credit ...

Mayotte is France's poorest region and is nearly 5,000 miles from Paris in the Indian Ocean - one witness said the damage wreaked by the cyclone looked like "the aftermath of a nuclear war".

The spread between French and German benchmark bond yields widened, signaling investor unease about France's public finances.

In a divided nation struggling with polarised politics, high debt, and a ballooning deficit, the task before 73-year-old ...

The cyclone has left health services in tatters, with the hospital extremely damaged and health centres knocked out of operation.

Cyclone Chido caused major damage to Mayotte's airport and cut off electricity, water and communication links when it ...

Several hundred people and possibly even thousands may have been killed when the most powerful cyclone in nearly a century hit the French Indian Ocean archipelago of Mayotte, a senior local French ...

Pope Francis urged Catholic priests on Sunday (Dec 15) to guard against spiritual groups that stoke political divisions, ...

Malake village, located on Malake Island in Ra, is battling severe shoreline erosion exacerbated by climate change, with ...

Francois Bayrou came into the spotlight in the 2002 presidential campaign when he slapped a child who tried to pick his ...