The French police sought to reassure Parisians that a plan to put more than 1,200 video cameras on the city’s streets would not lead to Big Brother-style surveillance.

The 19th Arrondissement is one of the most fascinating districts of Paris — one of the largest, youngest, poorest, most racially diverse — and the most criminal.

The police were investigating whether a small tourist boat that sank Saturday night in the Seine had collided with a bridge or with a larger tourist dinner boat.

The new car-sharing program, expected to begin in late 2009 or early 2010, would bring a fleet of 4,000 electric cars and would be run by the city of Paris.

Obama said Iran should not wait for a new American president and should accept an international proposal now to stop enriching uranium.

A year after the introduction of the sturdy gray bicycles known as Vélib?s, other major cities, including American ones, are exploring similar projects.

Continental Airlines and two of its employees have been ordered to stand trial on involuntary manslaughter charges related to the 2000 crash.

The chief of staff of the French Army resigned, two days after a soldier fired bullets instead of blanks during a military exhibition, injuring 17 people.

The chief of staff of the French Army resigned, two days after a soldier fired bullets instead of blanks during a military exhibition, injuring 17 people.

Whether designers have been looking at the same art, reading the same books or just wishing they were anyplace but here, their spring 2009 men?s collections seem to have hit the same wall with the modern exception of Raf Simons.