Seven people have died, including three young children and a teenager, in a fire that broke out in the early hours of Thursday in the southern French city of Nice.
The local prosecutor said officials were investigating the blaze as a potential arson (...)
Eight people have been convicted for their roles in the 2016 Nice truck attack that killed 86 people and left 400 others injured.
Seven men and one woman were all found guilty of conspiring to orchestrate the attack, the second deadliest on French (...)
British billionaire Jim Ratcliffe hopes to make Nice one of the strongest teams in France after his company Ineos bought the club, his brother Bob said in a news conference in the French city on Tuesday.
Ratcliffe agreed on Monday to buy 100% of the (...)
Sweden benefited from poor defending and the video assistant referee to beat England 2-1 in the women's World Cup third place playoff match on Saturday.
Early goals from Kosovare Asllani and Sofia Jakobsson were enough to see off Phil Neville's (...)
England winger Karen Carney hopes to bow out with a win at the women's World Cup after coach Phil Neville said on Friday she would feature in the third-place playoff against Sweden.
The Chelsea player, who made her England debut in 2005, announced (...)
Sweden produced a breathtaking display of attacking football to thrash Thailand 5-1 in Nice on Sunday and book their place in the last 16 of the women's World Cup.
Thailand, coming off a record 13-0 loss to defending champions United States in their (...)
Wendie Renard's own goal in a 2-1 win over Norway on Wednesday came as reminder that France need to keep their feet on the ground if they are to claim their first women's World Cup title.
Center back Renard deflected Isabell Herlovsen's cross into (...)
Colombia's Sergio Henao lifted his troubled Sky team's spirits with a dramatic two-second success over Alberto Contador in the Paris-Nice Sunday.
Henao set up the win when grabbing a half-minute lead in the 'Race to the Sun' with fourth in (...)
Australia's Richie Porte claimed victory on the penultimate seventh stage of the Paris-Nice atop the Col de la Couillole Saturday but Colombia's Sergio Henao claimed the overall lead.
France's Julian Alaphilippe had held the leader's yellow jersey (...)
President Francois Hollande invoked the spirit of national unity on Saturday as he led tributes to 86 people killed in a jihadist truck attack in Nice on Bastille Day.
Saturday's ceremonies in the Riviera resort city had been postponed until a day (...)
Nice has become the latest French seaside resort to ban the burkini, the body-concealing Islamic swimsuit that has sparked heated debate in secular France, city officials said late Friday.
Using language similar to bans imposed in a string of other (...)
France fell silent on Monday for the victims of the Nice truck attack, but the mourning was overshadowed by politicians tearing into each other over the massacre.
A sea of people thronged the Nice promenade for the emotional minute's silence just (...)
French authorities detained two more people on Sunday in the investigation into the Bastille Day truck attack on the Mediterranean city of Nice that killed at least 84 people, as authorities try to determine whether the slain attacker was a (...)
France began a period of national mourning on Saturday for the 84 people killed when a Tunisian man smashed a 19-ton truck into a mass of people celebrating France's Bastille Day in the Riviera city of Nice.
Some 30,000 people had thronged the (...)
The man responsible for turning a night of celebration into one of carnage in the seaside city of Nice was a petty criminal who hadn't been on the radar of French intelligence services before the attack.
What is known so far about Mohamed Lahouaiej (...)
A large truck mowed through revelers gathered for Bastille Day fireworks in Nice, killing at least 84 people and sending people fleeing into the sea as it bore down for more than a mile along the Riviera city's famed waterfront promenade.
The (...)
World leaders are expressing dismay, sadness and solidarity with France over the attack carried out by a man who drove truck into crowds of people celebrating France's national day in Nice, killing at least 84 people:
UNITED ARAB EMIRATES
The seven (...)
The Copa America has often been dismissed as a poor relation to the European Championship, so much so that the latter has frequently been dubbed by the media as "the World Cup minus Brazil and Argentina."
But a comparison of the two tournaments, (...)
Bigger is proving better at the first European Championship with 24 teams.
Only the most uncharitable would argue that tournament first-timers Wales, Northern Ireland, Albania and Iceland didn't more than earn their keep in the just-concluded group (...)
Zlatan Ibrahimovic said Tuesday that he will retire from international football after the European Championship.
The 34-year-old striker said ahead of Sweden's final Group E game Wednesday against Belgium that it would be his last for the country if (...)
Holder Spain became the first team to score more than two goals in a game at Euro 2016, beating Turkey 3-0 as Andres Iniesta shone again and forward Alvaro Morata answered his critics with a double.
The champion also achieved its first objective, (...)
Ajax striker Arkadiusz Milik broke Northern Ireland hearts Sunday after rifling home the only goal in their Euro 2016 Group C opener in Nice. Poland had never won a game before at the European Championship, with three draws and three losses over two (...)
Eighth-seeded Alexander Zverev fought for more than 2 1/2 hours to beat Marcel Granollers and reach the quarterfinals of the Nice Open Wednesday.
Zverev, who lost to Granollers in three sets at the Monte Carlo Masters earlier this season, converted (...)
Third-seeded Kevin Anderson won for only the third time this year in reaching the Nice Open quarterfinals Tuesday.
Anderson, who received a wild card at the clay-court tournament, hit seven aces and broke Diego Schwartzman of Argentina twice to win (...)
Briton Geraint Thomas cracked in the final ascent of Paris-Nice but pulled himself together in the descent to hold off Alberto Contador by four seconds and claim his biggest road racing victory Sunday.
The Team Sky rider, who was dropped in the (...)
