The Victor Wembanyama effect is already sweeping across Europe, and the San Antonio Spurs haven’t even tipped off yet.

Pope Leo XIV plans to meet with seven survivors of sexual abuse by Catholic clergy during his visit to France.

Leaders from Lebanon, France and Jordan have met in Paris to support Lebanon's struggling military.

Burna Boy is set to headline the halftime show at the NFL's first regular-season game in Paris.

A Paris court has awarded Kim Kardashian 1 euro in compensation for an armed robbery she experienced in 2016.

Paris has been grappling with intense heat and illustrator Marina Antonova captures this in her series “Chronicles of a Heating Planet.”.

Celine Dion has returned to the stage, performing her first full concert in over six years.

The U.S. and France will meet for the women's FIBA World Cup title Sunday in a rematch of the 2024 Paris Olympic final that the Americans won by a point.

European soccer body UEFA is set to formally withdraw its threat to boycott FIFA competitions after receiving assurances Gianni Infantino’s failed World Cup sell-off plan will not be revived.

A tornado has ripped through a small village in southern France, damaging about 300 homes and injuring dozens.

Australia’s recorded music industry says tracks wholly generated by AI will be barred from official charts as burgeoning generative technologies threaten artists’ livelihoods.

Olympic gold medal-winning gymnast Hezly Rivera has added two-time national champion to her resume.

Tour de France champion Tadej Pogačar is returning to the Spanish Vuelta after a seven-year absence to pursue a Grand Tours hat trick of titles.

San Antonio Spurs superstar Victor Wembanyama is adding yet another feather to his cap: a signature shoe.

Jean-François Pauner is among many volunteers helping firefighters battle wildfires in southwestern France.

George Clooney says his family has been forced to evacuate their home in southeastern France due to a nearby wildfire.

A wildfire in southwest France grew so powerful that its towering smoke column became a thunderstorm, generating lightning that struck the ground and ignited new fires beyond the original blaze, French officials said.

Tadej Pogacar confirms his status as one of cycling’s all-time greats after winning a record-equaling fifth Tour de France title in emphatic style.

A raging wildfire in southwest France has forced the evacuation of 55,000 more people overnight.

Sha’Carri Richardson and Noah Lyles cruised through their first-round races of the 100 meters on Thursday at the U.S. championships.

About 20,000 people have been evacuated from towns and vacation resorts along the French Atlantic coast.

France experienced at least 5,700 more deaths than usual during a historic heat wave last month, according to the public health agency.

The Louvre's Apollo gallery is reopening to the public for the first time since last year's crown jewels heist.

France's National Assembly has given final approval to a bill allowing adults with incurable illnesses to receive lethal medication.

Ukraine’s air force says its air defenses intercepted five ballistic missiles launched by Russia in overnight attacks.

Ukraine and nine other countries have announced a coalition to protect Europe from ballistic missiles, taking advantage of Kyiv’s experience of fighting Russia.

A fire is raging in the historic Fontainebleau forest south of Paris, prompting evacuations and disrupting traffic.

Inside the Grand Palais in Paris, the Chanel salon had been swallowed by a garden gone wrong: giant beanstalks climbing to the ceiling and huge flowers blooming a little too brightly to be safe.

Jonathan Anderson arrived at Paris couture week with the fashion world still waiting to see the Dior wedding dress he made for Taylor Swift.

At Men's Fashion Week in Paris, women were everywhere, walking coed runways and modeling menswear.

A record-breaking heat wave has overwhelmed mortuaries in Paris, leaving funeral directors struggling to find space for bodies.

A heat wave is hitting central and eastern Europe, with record temperatures in Switzerland, the Czech Republic and Denmark.

The Diamond League track and field meeting in Paris will proceed as planned despite a historic heat wave.

Paris Fashion Week Men’s became a test of fashion’s relationship with heat.

A Paris court has ruled that energy company TotalEnergies must account for its consumers’ greenhouse gas emissions.

A positive case of Ebola virus has been identified in France.

Pharrell Williams has sent Louis Vuitton’s dandy surfer over a giant wave at Paris Fashion Week.

France is facing a grueling heat wave with temperatures soaring above 40 degrees Celsius, or 104 Fahrenheit.

France is in the grips of a severe heat wave, leading to canceled trains, concerts and sports events.

French singer and actor Patrick Bruel faces preliminary charges of rape, attempted rape, sexual assault, and harassment involving several women between 2008 and 2019.

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Bernadette Chirac, the steel-willed former first lady of France, has died.

Serena Williams will make her return to professional tennis playing doubles alongside a partner who is 25 years younger.

Top-ranked Aryna Sabalenka wasted a lead of a set and two breaks in a 3-6, 7-5, 6-0 loss to Diana Shnaider in the French Open quarterfinals.

Top-ranked Aryna Sabalenka beat Naomi Osaka 7-5, 6-3 to reach the French Open quarterfinals and move one step closer to finally winning the clay-court Grand Slam after losing last year's final to Coco Gauff.

There will be a first-time women’s champion at the French Open this year, with two Ukrainian players among the top contenders.

Paris police have detained 45 people after violence disrupted celebrations of Paris Saint-Germain's second Champions League title win and a group tried to storm a police station.

Adolfo Daniel Vallejo faces a significant fine for his sexist remarks at the French Open.

There will be a new men’s champion at the French Open after Novak Djokovic followed Jannik Sinner out of the door at Roland Garros in a five-set thriller.

With Carlos Alcaraz absent, Jannik Sinner was expected to win the French Open.

Top-ranked Jannik Sinner appears to be struggling with the heat during his second-round match at the French Open against 56th-ranked Argentine opponent Juan Manuel Cerundolo.

Naomi Osaka keeps bringing the fashion in Paris.

Novak Djokovic was pushed by 74th-ranked Valentin Royer for more than 3½ hours before he reached the third round of the French Open with a 6-3, 6-2, 6-7 (7), 6-3 victory.

Parents’ groups in France are calling for more attention to child abuse scandals as a rare public trial opens in Paris.

Aryna Sabalenka’s diamonds sparkled in the sunshine when she won her first-round match at the heat-soaked French Open.

Europe is baking under unseasonal heat that is shattering temperature records and prompting government warnings after deaths were reported at amateur sports events in France.

Tennis players at the French Open say they haven’t experienced conditions this hot at Roland Garros since the 2024 Paris Olympics.

Home player Arthur Gea ran off the court for an emergency bathroom break early in the first set of his French Open debut.

Marta Kostyuk’s first-round win at the French Open becomes one of her toughest matches after she finds out beforehand that a missile almost hit her parents’ home in Ukraine.

While competing in one of the most anticipated playoff series of the decade, the NBA announced Wednesday that the San Antonio Spurs will spend a portion of next season in Europe.

Two-time Wimbledon champion Carlos Alcaraz has pulled out of the grass-court Grand Slam event next month because of his lingering wrist injury.

Malaysia's government is seeking $251 million in compensation from Kongsberg Defense & Aerospace AS after Norway revoked an export permit.

Jonathan Andic, the son of Mango's billionaire founder, has posted bail following his arrest in connection with the death of his billionaire father.

France’s Pasteur Institute has fully sequenced the Andes virus found in a French passenger from the MV Hondius cruise ship.

Paris Saint-Germain clinched a record-extending 14th French league title after winning 2-0 at closest rival Lens.

A doctor says a French woman being treated for hantavirus after being infected on a cruise ship is critically ill and being treated with an artificial lung.

France is pitching what it says is a new model of partnership with African countries at a summit that begins Monday in Kenya as it completes a military withdrawal from West African countries that has been widely seen as marking declining influence on the continent.

The International Olympic Committee says athletes from Belarus should once again be able to compete with their full national identity and not be vetted for neutral status.

One of the top art museums in Paris has opened a new gallery dedicated to orphaned masterpieces plundered by the Nazis.

Now for the encore, Paris Saint-Germain and Bayern Munich.

French-Algerian author Kamel Daoud says he has been sentenced to three years in prison in Algeria for his book “Houris.”.

Elon Musk has been summoned to Paris as part of an investigation into alleged misconduct on the social media platform X.

France and the U.K. have welcomed the announcement by Iran and the U.S. that the Strait of Hormuz is open.

A Parisian art enthusiast has won a Pablo Picasso painting with a $117 raffle ticket.

Italy’s Yemaneberhan Crippa was the fastest of nearly 60,000 runners in the Paris Marathon while Shure Demise of Ethiopia smashed a course record to win the women’s race.

A raffle in France offers the chance to win a Picasso portrait for a 100-euro ticket.

New films by Polish filmmaker Paweł Pawlikowski, Japanese writer-director Ryusuke Hamaguchi and Spain’s Pedro Almodovar will premiere at the 79th Cannes Film Festival next month.

Khvicha Kvaratskhelia adds another solo goal to his collection as defending champion Paris Saint-Germain beats Liverpool 2-0 in the first leg of their Champions League quarterfinal.

The Trump administration has revoked the green cards or U.S. visas of at least four Iranian nationals connected to the current or former Iranian government, including two who have been detained by immigration authorities and are to be deported.

Olympic gold medalist Lin Yu-ting has won her quarterfinal bout at the Asian boxing championships in her first event since World Boxing said she passed a gene test to confirm her gender.

Senegal keeps celebrating its Africa Cup title even after African soccer officials stripped it away and awarded it to Morocco.

French authorities say that police have stopped a suspected bombing outside a Bank of America building in Paris.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio has rejected Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy's assertion that the U.S. wants Ukraine to hand over territory to Russia to receive American security guarantees in any ceasefire plan.

Deep divisions were apparent over the Iran war as top diplomats from the Group of Seven countries have met in France.

Socialist candidate Emmanuel Grégoire has won the Paris mayoral race, succeeding fellow party member Anne Hidalgo as the French capital’s mayor.

Iranians abroad and in Tehran are approaching Persian new year with grief and fear as war and a crackdown cut them off from loved ones.

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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says the U.S. 30-day waiver on Russian oil sanctions amid the Iran war is “not the right decision” and won’t help bring a stop to Russia’s more than 4-year-old invasion of Ukraine.

Louis Vuitton’s Nicolas Ghesquière built a fake mountain range inside the Louvre and sent models climbing through it.

Paris Fashion Week shows designers resetting big brands with clothes that match a tense, noisy world.

Paris Fashion Week is delivering a forceful reminder of why it remains a capital of fashion, with blockbuster celebrity front rows, boundary-pushing design and collections that are tackling big ideas about power, craft and the female body.

Oprah Winfrey and her longtime friend Gayle King are among celebrities on the front row at Chloé fashion show at Paris Fashion Week.

A woman on probation for stowing away on an international flight has been arrested again after sneaking onto a flight from Newark, New Jersey, to Milan, Italy, A law enforcement official familiar with the matter said Thursday that Svetlana Dali was taken into custody Thursday at Milan’s Malpensa Airport.

The “Bridgerton” team would not quit until they were satisfied when it came to finding a word to use for “orgasm” in Season 4.

The U.S. ambassador to France has reached out to defuse a new diplomatic spat after skipping a French summons over U.S. comments on French politics.

Paris prosecutors have opened two new investigations tied to Jeffrey Epstein, and they call on possible victims in France to come forward.

French authorities have revealed the identity of a 79-year-old man accused of raping and sexually assaulting 89 minors over five decades.

France’s former Culture Minister Jack Lang has resigned as head of a Paris cultural center.

French prosecutors have requested a five-year ban on holding elected office against far-right leader Marine Le Pen at a crucial appeal trial in Paris.

The NFL will play its first regular-season game ever in France next season with the New Orleans Saints set to travel to Paris later this year and will also head back to Mexico City for the first time since 2022.