The French general and statesman Charles André Joseph Marie De Gaulle (1890-1970) led the Free French forces during World War II. A talented writer and eloquent orator, he served as president o...
Read more
London (dpa) - British Airways (BA) announced plans Wednesday to
launch its own subsidiary airline offering luxury-seat flights to the
US from Paris and Brussels under the n...
Read more
How will airports accommodate the world's biggest passenger jet?At Paris' leading Charles de Gaulle airport, where the hulking Airbus A380 landed for the first time Friday, preparing for its arriva...
Read more
GENEVA, Nov 9 (Reuters) - Archives recording the fate of 2
million prisoners captured during World War One, including young
French captain Charles de Gaulle who later became president,
enter UNESC...
Read more
Kiev (dpa) - French airport police detained two Ukrainian
journalists early Thursday morning because of impolite posters the
reporters had pinned onto their backpacks.
...
Read more
The U.S. Navy on Tuesday began its largest demonstration of force in the Persian Gulf since the 2003 invasion of Iraq, led by a pair of aircraft carriers and backed by warplanes flying simulated at...
Read more
New Delhi (dpa) - Two Bangladeshi men who were lost in transit for
48 days at the international airport in New Delhi after being
deported by Saudi Arabia due to improper doc...
Read more
Taipei (dpa) - The world's largest plane, the A380, will land in
Taipei next month as part of its promotional tour in Asia, an airport
official said on Tuesday.
...
Read more
Baron Guy de Rothschild, who managed his family's French banking empire and saw it taken over first during the Nazi occupation and then by a Socialist government 40 years later, has died. He was 98...
Read more
Josef Stalin, Adolf Hitler and Franklin D. Roosevelt are missing their clothes and Fred Flintstone and the Teletubbies are just plain missing after a raid on wax figures owned by Ireland's National...
Read more
Pierre Messmer, a member of the French Resistance who was the country's prime minister from 1972 to 1974, has died at age 91, former President Jacques Chirac said Wednesday.Messmer died Wednesday a...
Read more