Migrant removed to France returns to UK on small boat

The man was sent to France under the 'one in, one out' deal but returned via the Channel on a small boat, the BBC understands.

Cruise Passenger Celebrating Her Husband's Birthday Dies While Ship Is Docked in France: Report

A cruise passenger was found unresponsive in her cabin while the boat was docked in Cannes, France, a local outlet has reported.

Police intensify hunt for Louvre thieves as France reels from jewel heist

Authorities raced against the clock Tuesday as experts in art security told NBC News it could already be too late to recover the jewels.

'We have failed' says minister as France reels from Louvre heist

A hunt is under way to find the four thieves before the jewels - which once belonged to French royals - vanish for good.

Buried in France in 1840, a U.S. president’s daughter comes back home

Barbara VornDick was researching the fifth U.S. president’s daughter. It turned into a years-long odyssey that cast her into the roles of sleuth, genealogist and more.

Louvre Heist Leaves France Asking How It Could Have Happened

High visitor numbers and dwindling funds for overhauls may have made the landmark museum unexpectedly vulnerable.

Can France retrieve its priceless crown jewels - or is it too late?

French police are desperate to retrieve priceless jewels stolen from the Louvre in a brazen daylight robbery, but experts have warned it may already be too late to save them.

What France and others can learn from Sweden's hard budget lessons

When Sweden's then-finance minister Goran Persson dashed to New York during the country's early 1990s financial crisis to plead with Wall Street investors to keep buying its debt, he stayed in a budget hotel infested with cockroaches.

Daughter of former president James Monroe to be buried in Virginia 200 years after dying alone in France

I am now in distress, in ill health, & in a forreign [sic] country,” Hay wrote in one letter from 1839, pleading its reciever to “save me from utter ruin.”

Paris judge indicts Chinese woman for theft of gold nuggets from France's Museum of Natural History

A 24-year-old Chinese woman was indicted for allegedly stealing nearly $2 million worth of gold nuggets from Paris' National Museum of Natural History.
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