Vandals burned down 266 cars in France, including 195 vehicles in a Paris district, on the night of Bastille Day celebrated in the country July 14, a national police spokesman said Saturday.

Exploration Drilling in OML137 Yields Two Discoveries in the Niger Delta.

The riders in the Tour de France will have a foretaste of the mountains on tonight's 182.5-kilometre fifth stage from Chablis to Autun, which is scattered with eight climbs.

The United States, France, and Britain have drafted a new resolution on Kosovo, which does not automatically grant the Serbian province independence after 120 days of multilateral negotiations, UN sources said.

French President Nicolas Sarkozy has notified European Union finance ministers that he may not be able to wipe out his country's budget deficit by the EU deadline of 2010.

French authorities have confirmed that the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu killed three swans in eastern France, in the country's first outbreak of the disease in more than a year.

Russia's upper house of parliament ratified Friday an agreement regulating the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor project (ITER), being built in France with Russia's participation, aimed at eventually generating power by nuclear fusion.

France plans to make it harder for families to immigrate to the country. The immigration minister, Brice Hortefeux, proposed new rules for family reunification in the national parliament Wednesday.

British designer John Galliano marked his 10th year at the creative helm of iconic fashion house Dior with an extravagant autumn/winter show in Versailles Palace, inspired by impressionist and modern painters.

Russia's state-run arms exporter Rosoboronexport and French Thales signed a document Friday on cooperation in the production of naval equipment.

Russia is concerned that a terrorist suspect, Chechen separatist emissary Akhmed Zakayev, is apparently being granted free movement in the European Union, the foreign minister said Friday.

A conference in Paris aimed at finding a solution to the crisis in Darfur has ended with an agreement to coordinate future measures in the troubled region. But as Anita Elash reports for VOA from Paris, most of the key players did not attend the gathering.