PARIS, the pride of the immaculate and stylish French people, is growing dirty: it has joined the ranks of the world's polluted cities. For some time now, the pollution monitoring equipment

Anti-abortionists are giving sleepless nights to the French judiciary. While a Paris court recently allowed a group of save foetus" activists - who had barged into a hospital and started

A new machine helps quadriplegics move through electric impulses

A nonchalant French government plans to throw open its virgin islands to tourists and game hunters

In arguments concerning weight, the final arbiter is a cylindrical piece of a platinum-iridium alloy kept in an airtight chamber in Sevres, France, which is deemed to weigh exactly I kg. But a

Connoisseurs who have savoured the renowned French wine, Chateauneuf-du-Pape, for the past 40 years may be surprised to learn that its vintages from the 1950s contained high levels of lead (Nature,

SCIENTISTS have recently confirmed the presence in the lungs of asthmatics of an enzyme that produces nitric oxide, which damages cells lining the airways. Nitric oxide was known to be present in the

A new study shows that the newborn babies of women afflicted with a severe form of AIDS could fall victim to the disease quicker

A five year long protest in France resulted in a major victory for conservationists, with the government being forced to abandon plans to build a dam.