Mr. Ber?s was renowned for his taste and connoisseurship, his vast financial resources and his ruthlessness in the pursuit of the rare and the beautiful.

The ideological battle for Algeria?s youth takes place in the schools, which for decades were controlled by Islamists.

A new black consciousness is emerging in France, lately hastened by, of all things, the presumptive Democratic nominee for president of the United States.

A French lawyer for a Khmer Rouge leader erupted at the judges of Cambodia?s genocide tribunal because thousands of pages of documents had not been translated into French.