Topic: France
American movie director Tim Burton has been inducted into France's cultural honor roll in a Paris ceremony. Culture Minister Frederic Mitterand made the director of such films as "Alice in Wonderland" and "Edward Scissorhands" an officer in France's National Order of Arts and Letters. Burton ...
Fresh with a first-place showing in round one of regional elections over President Nicolas Sarkozy's governing UMP party, France's Socialists now have a week of deal-making with rival leftist parties to try to secure dominance in the upcoming runoff — and 2 1/2 years to transform ...
President Nicolas Sarkozy's party licked its wounds on Monday after a first round battering in French regional elections that saw the resurgence of the far-right National Front. Results showed the opposition Socialists were set to crush the governing UMP party this coming Sunday in round two of the vote, the last major ballot held ahead of the 2012 presidential ...
