Nigeria has formally joined the global conversation to check progress and seeks to increase global ambition to meet the goals of the Paris climate change agreement. It comes under a process designed to help countries implement and enhance their Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) by 2020. One of the key outcomes of the UN Climate Change…

US President Donald Trump is no longer certain of traveling to Ireland after he attends events commemorating the end of World War I in Paris later this year, the White House said Tuesday. "The president will travel to Paris in November as previously announced. We are still finalizing whether Ireland will be a stop on…

Once we arrived in Paris, one of the world's most romantic cities in the world, the experience was heightened by the luxurious treatment by Remy Martin. First stop was the Hotel de Nell located in the heart of Paris. Once we checked in, I managed to squeeze in a quick photo shoot for Orange Culture…

A French court on Wednesday gave the green light for a suspect in an alleged bomb plot against an Iranian opposition rally to be handed over to Belgium. The suspected plan to target a gathering of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) in a Paris suburb came to light a few days after…

French fashion icon Jean-Paul Gaultier opened up a new front in the battle over bras Wednesday with "Free the nipple" slogans in his Paris haute couture show. The flamboyant designer showed his support for a Florida teenager who was made to cover her nipples in bandages at her high school for not wearing a bra…

The Louvre has dedicated a new art tour to Beyonce and Jay-Z after pop's biggest power couple shot the video for their latest hit in the Paris museum. The R'n'B stars' hit song Apeshit -- which used some of the museum's greatest masterpieces as backdrops -- has been viewed 56 million times on YouTube alone…

A knife attack in Paris that killed one man on Saturday, carried out by a French citizen born in Chechnya, is the latest of numerous suspected acts of terrorism linked to the troubled Russian region.

Thousands of people demonstrated in central Paris on Saturday amid a heavy police presence to protest against President Emmanuel Macron's sweeping reforms, a year after he came to office. Some 2,000 security forces including riot police were deployed as marchers gathered from midday in warm early summer sunshine in the central Opera square for a…

Paris's main zoo was set to reopen Saturday after the last of around 50 baboons who had escaped from their enclosure were found overnight, the zoo authorities said. A spokeswoman for the National Museum of Natural History said two females and a baby were tracked down at around 4:15 am (0315 GMT). The zoo is…

Starting with Paris, the couture shows always bring a heightened level of sophistication and finesse to clothing. Both the creative and artistic approach to these clothes are likened to a doctor performing a major operation; every pattern is perfectly aligned and every stitch is perfect. With a lot of changes happening in design houses like…

Unions representing staff on the Paris metro staged strikes on Friday to denounce rising crime linked to crack and heroin use on the network. The CGT and SUD unions called for the walkout to protest the increasing presence of drug addicts at stations on the northern end of the lines 4 and 12. Some conductors…

Paris men's fashion week began in earnest Wednesday with two collections showing what dogs and pigs men can be, as the industry reels from a new sexual harassment scandal. French designer Julien David sent out his models wearing dog's heads, from a macho, man-spreading Doberman to an intellectual whippet and a splayed poodle in dungarees.…