French champion Paris Saint-Germain edged out Lyon on penalty kicks to win a tightly contested last edition of the League Cup on Friday and complete a domestic treble.
The match finished 0-0 and Lyon was a save away from winning it, leading 5-4 in (...)
Paris St Germain's dominance in the domestic cup competitions continued Saturday after it captured a record 11th French Cup title by beating Angers 1-0 thanks to an injury-time own goal.
The capital side, which owed its victory to Issa Cissokho's (...)
The Icelandic thunderclap roar proved no match for the sheer talent of France as the host finally showed its title credentials at the European Championship Sunday.
A crushing 5-2 victory lined up a semifinal with Germany as France displayed the (...)
After scoring one goal and setting up another in France's opening win at the European Championship, Dimitri Payet left the field in tears.
The West Ham forward, now hitting his career peak at 29, was playing for his country at a major tournament for (...)
A woman wearing an explosive suicide vest blew herself up on Wednesday as heavily armed police tried to storm a suburban Paris apartment where the suspected mastermind of last week's gun and bomb rampage was believed to be holed up, police (...)
Gunfire and explosions shook the Paris suburb of St. Denis early on Wednesday when French police raided an apartment where a Belgian militant suspected of masterminding last week's attacks in the French capital was possibly holed up.
A woman died (...)
France shrugged off a poor first-half performance to draw 17-17 at home to Ireland in the Six Nations Sunday, ending its hopes of a Grand Slam and leaving Wales alone at the top of the standings.
Ireland had only won twice in France in the past 40 (...)
Olympic and world champion Usain Bolt recovered from a poor start to win the 100 meters at the Paris Diamond League meet in 9.84 seconds Friday.
Bolt set a new meet record and beat fellow Jamaican Asafa Powell, who finished second in 9.91. Another (...)
Sixteen-year-old Californian sailor Abby Sunderland got a big hug from her older brother Saturday on the appropriately named Reunion Island, and again defended her family for letting her try to sail around the world alone.
Though saddened by the (...)
Toulouse rallied to win a record fourth Heineken Cup as flyhalf David Skrela tallied 15 points to help clinch a 21-19 victory over Biarritz in the final Saturday.
The six-time finalist fought back from 6-0 behind after 20 minutes at Stade de (...)
France has won its first Six Nations Grand Slam title since 2004 after narrowly beating England 12-10.
After a bright start from England Saturday, France gradually took control and three penalties from Morgan Parra put coach Marc Lievremont's team (...)
World record-holder Usain Bolt easily won the 100m at the Areva Meeting outside Paris on Friday but just missed out on Tyson Gay's season-best time.
The Jamaican, gearing up for next month's world championships in Berlin, won in 9.79 seconds. “I (...)