The ancient Mayans may have had enough engineering know-how to master running water, creating fountains and even toilets by controlling water pressure, scientists now suggest.
The white alabaster figures draped in cloaks show their grief in different ways: from a bent head, the face shrouded by a hood, to a hand swathed in cloth reaching up to wipe a tear.
Shortly before nightfall, an Afghan farmer slipped into this NATO outpost with a bag of ammunition and gear he'd collected from nearby Taliban positions. It turned out not to be much: pieces of 82-millimeter mortar guns and some combat food rations.
A mysterious missive apparently written by a French-speaking woman to her married lover has washed onto a British beach and into the imagination of the U.K. media.
French prosecutors have launched a preliminary investigation to examine syringes found in medical waste containers during the Tour de France.
The Canadian military plans to hire a Colorado woman to teach some of its soldiers to speak French — one of Canada's official languages.
Thousands gathered in downtown Belgrade on Wednesday to mourn the death of a 28-year-old French soccer fan who was fatally beaten by Serbian hooligans.
French President Nicolas Sarkozy said Friday that Martinique is free to hold a referendum on greater political autonomy but made clear the island would always belong to France.
In a May 15 story about the launch of the Herschel telescope in the Ariane-5 rocket, The Associated Press erroneously reported it was the largest telescope ever. The Herschel is the largest telescope ever launched into space.
Jorge Lorenzo won the French Grand Prix on Sunday to take the overall Moto GP championship lead from Valentino Rossi, whose decision to make an early tire change backfired when he fell on the Le Mans circuit.
Marilyn French, the writer and feminist whose novel "The Women's Room" sold more than 20 million copies and transformed her into a leading figure in the women's movement, has died at 79.
Teenager Lauren Embree has earned her first berth in a Grand Slam tournament by winning a French Open qualifying event held by the U.S. Tennis Association.
An Art Deco remnant of the Paris subway system has sold for $27,500 at auction.
Union leaders said Wednesday they are ending a monthlong strike on the French Caribbean island of Martinique after reaching agreement with employers on a pay raise.
Unions in Guadeloupe scored a victory in getting a deal to raise some workers' salaries, but said Friday they will not end a general strike now concluding its sixth week on the French Caribbean island.
Masked demonstrators blocked a highway on Guadeloupe on Friday as another day of negotiations ended without agreement over proposals by France's president to quell violent, racially tinged unrest over wages on the Caribbean island.
About 3,000 mourners on Sunday turned the funeral for a labor-union activist killed in Guadeloupe into a political demonstration, calling out for higher wages and respect from the French government.
NATO says that hundreds of French troops have been deployed to train and mentor Afghan security forces in southern Afghanistan.
A 33-year-old unemployed man appeared in a London court Thursday, charged with the brutal stabbing murders of two French students.
A French man allegedly involved in the theft of paintings by Claude Monet and two other artists has been charged in the U.S. with attempting to broker the sale of the stolen art to undercover FBI agents, federal prosecutors said Friday.
Felipe Massa of Ferrari won the French Grand Prix on Sunday and moved top of the overall standings after his third F1 victory of the season.
The world cycling governing body suspended the French federation for the rest of the year for a breach of rules.
In an April 16 story about France's entry in the Eurovision song contest, The Associated Press reported erroneously that France has won the competition 14 times. Songs in the French language have won 14 times, five of them winning entries from France.
A singer representing France at next month's Eurovision song contest said Thursday that he is ready to add French lyrics to his mostly English-language tune to calm an uproar.
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