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.
It's official, the double-hyphenated, double-barrelled surname that has been imposed on 175,000 French children since 2005 is ungrammatical, un-French, and must be abolished.
The assembly in the Indian state of West Bengal has passed a resolution backing Bangladesh's call for Bengali to be made an official UN language.
Eurostar today blamed the wrong type of "fluffy French snow" for the collapse of its services, sparking fury and derision from stranded passengers.
A British medical journal has published findings saying a mistress of 16th-century French King Henry II may have died from consuming too much drinkable gold.
State-owned TV France 2 has censored debate with Professor Niels Harrit, co-discoverer of unexploded nanothermite in all WTC dust samples and pointing to explosive demolition of the WTC on 9-11 (& hence US complicity).
PICK up any Urdu textbook and the chances are that it will endorse the following myths: (a) the term 'Urdu' means military camp. Our language is called 'Urdu' because it was created in the army camps of the Mughals especially during the reign of Shah Jahan;
Somers Town (2008) is fresh and lighthearted coming of age story that has real-life charm and drama. It is serious yet fun look at growing up. The people you meet and the situations you get into, as well as your dreams, truly shape who you are.
The British have long enjoyed food with a bit of bite. And 200 years ago, an Indian migrant opened Britain's first curry house to cater for the fashion for spicy food.
This video presents a neat visualization of the evolution of four maritime empires (British, French, Spanish and Portuguese) year-by-year over the course of the last two centuries.
Secret French intelligence service documents on the young Adolf Hitler have surfaced in the country's national archives, daily Le Monde reported on Friday.
RIYADH: Thirty years ago, as tens of thousands of hajj pilgrims were completing dawn prayers inside Mecca, gunshots pierced the sanctity of the Grand Mosque.
MONTREAL Reading the 1995 edition of the federal Citizenship guide, an immigrant to Canada might have been forgiven for thinking he or she was signing up to join the Boy Scouts or the Girl Guides.
The boy's parents raised the alarm when they realised he had taken the family gun from their house near Beauvais, north of Paris, and was headed to his school in Beauvais itself, officials said.
PARIS: Former French investigating judge Jean-Louis Bruguiere said that Japan was among Al Qaeda's prime targets for attack, while promoting a book about his 25 years of efforts against terrorism.
Mireille Guiliano "I see it in France. Quality of life remains essential to the French and they are unified on what this means. Work should be something you can take some pleasure in – for the simple reason that it gives you more equilibrium with which to enjoy life.
Photo Essay from Time Magazine. Not sure how old this E-Reader list is. But I didn't know there were other companies outside of Sony and the Kindle that were selling competitive E-readers. Cool. Would love to buy one of these.
French neuroscientist Bruno della Chiesa met with his country's education minister in Paris to talk about the groundbreaking international movement to link the fields of teaching and brain science.
A Pakistani court has acquitted a man sentenced to death in the June 2002 Sheraton hotel bombing which killed 11 French engineers in Karachi.
France has arrested a researcher at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (Cern) for suspected links with al-Qaeda, officials have said. The 32-year-old man of Algerian descent was one of two brothers detained in the south-east town of Vienne on Thursday.
Somali pirates in two skiffs fired on a French navy vessel early Wednesday after apparently mistaking it for a commercial boat, the French military said.
Maybe we should use cruise ships and tankers loaded with marines and armored as decoys. Let the Somali pirates come to us instead of searching them out. The French are brilliant!
A French gay soccer team says its members were victims of homophobia when a team of Muslim players refused to play a match against them.
Aer Lingus cabin crew caused chaos on a Dublin to Paris flight by accidentally playing a message in French which warned that the plane was about to make an emergency landing.
Neo-Nazism is on the rise in Europe. It is not a problem that is going way. The U.S. is part of a global society. We all know what happened when we tried to ignore this problem the last time. We must not do that again.