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If the New York sexual assault case against Dominique Strauss-Kahn ever goes to trial, much will doubtless be made of his accuser’s background. But what about his? Since his New York arrest, a French writer has brought a criminal complaint in Paris about an attempted rape she says she suffered at Strauss-Kahn’s hands in 2003. The New York prosecutors made an apparent allusion to her claim at Strauss-Kahn’s first court appearance in May.

Former Dior designer John Galliano went on trial Wednesday charged with hurling anti-Semitic slurs in a Paris cafe, allegations that shocked the fashion world and cost him his job at the renowned French high-fashion house....

Horrendous weather and a public transport strike caused chaos at the Paris Air Show on Wednesday, delaying a raft of order announcements for Airbus and dampening the mood at Boeing's unveiling of its new 787 jet....

Paris' Eiffel Tower was evacuated Wednesday after a suspicious package was found at the base of one of the world's most visited tourist sites, the monument's operating company said.

In a bizarre story in The New York Times, Adam Liptak reports that a court in Paris will shortly decide whether a law professor in New York committed criminal libel by publishing a book review.

Workers opposed to a higher retirement age blocked roads to airports around France on Wednesday, leaving passengers in Paris dragging suitcases on foot along an emergency breakdown lane.

Al Qaeda and related groups are planning attacks on Western European capitals, officials said, but they had no intelligence on the timing or specific locations.

The Eiffel Tower and the park around it were evacuated Tuesday night after a bomb alert, police said.

Five paintings, reportedly including a Matisse and a Picasso, were stolen overnight from a Paris museum, the Paris mayor's office said Thursday.

A newly authenticated Van Gogh has gone on display 35 years after a discredited art collector bought it in Paris, convinced it was painted by the famed Dutch master but never able to prove it.