Paris

The evolution of a single gene from the bubonic plague microbe allowed it to survive for centuries — and to this very day

The government is considering building high-security prisons and establishing jails overseas as a solution to a saturated system that is failing to address rising crime

The Interior Minister will meet with figures from the sector to improve security after the latest daylight kidnapping attempt in Paris

Journalists broadcasting from Paris are sidestepping Taliban restrictions to connect girls in their home country to learning, health advice and entertainment

Meeting up with strangers to run, then eat together afterward — that’s the new trend in France that blends exercise and food, and it’s already gaining traction in New York and London

Economic uncertainty is driving the latest hair color trend: a new, low-maintenance blonde that requires fewer touch-ups at the salon

Interviews with more than 100 victims in 23 countries, along with internal government documents, reveal the sinister tactics China uses to silence critics beyond its borders

His first encyclical, in 2015, helped launch the Paris Agreement. In 2023, he updated it to scold countries for not weaning themselves off fossil fuels

The Nobel Prize winner had a romantic life worthy of a novel. He married a relative 12 years his senior, then left her for another one. In 2015, he began a high-profile relationship with a star of gossip magazines

World’s Fairs were created to launch futuristic technology and products, but ended up selling ideas and experiences. 174 years after the first event, Osaka expects 28 million visitors from April 13 to October 13

The National Assembly has approved a law that makes it easier to get a license to open a bar in communities with fewer than 3,500 residents and no local businesses

The photos she took and the words she wrote in ‘Vogue’ magazine were and remain an indictment of the Holocaust

The discomfort shown by Giorgia Meloni, who made explicit her closeness to the US, reflects the difficulty of the community partners in finding a common strategy

For some, a secular state is the foundation of an open society, which allows both faith and blasphemy. For others, secularism is an excuse to justify Islamophobia. The Islamist attacks of 2015 left a wound in French society that has opened up a debate on the idea of laïcité

Tehran uses the arbitrary imprisonment of Westerners as a foreign policy tool. The latest case is that of Italian journalist Cecilia Sala

A wave of sovereignty and the emergence of new actors such as Russia, China, and Turkey have pushed Paris out from its main zone of influence in the Sahel

The inauguration of this Parisian landmark on Saturday, five years after the fire, reflects our enduring fascination with the era

In a new book, Chilean researcher Cristóbal Marín describes the exploitation and colonization suffered by the Fuegian ethnic groups, both inside and outside their territory

In Marseille, the epicenter of drug trafficking gangs, the Ministers of Justice and Interior presented a project to prevent the ‘Mexicanization’ of the country, which includes the appointment of a liaison magistrate in Bogotá

Count Victor Lustig, an Austro-Hungarian swindler, arrived in Paris in 1925 ready to pull off the ultimate scam

The French thinker points out that confinement has given rise to a new generation of lazy people who are afraid to leave home and do not want to expose themselves to life

Prices have risen by 54% in the United States, 32% in China and nearly 15% in the European Union between 2015 and 2024. Though policies have been implemented to increase supply and regulate rentals, their impact has been limited and the problem is getting worse

For decades, the small Mediterranean country has been a parallel stage in the struggle for control of historic Palestine

On the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the Surrealist manifesto, an exhibition at the Centre Pompidou in Paris proposes a new reading that broadens the role of women and non-Western voices