Archaeologists say they have discovered an "unprecedented" monument in France. That is the French National Institute for ...

Although its land area is modest – only 1.7 square kilometers – Clipperton’s strategic and ecological significance is ...

Even at the airport, Tahiti goes to great lengths to meet your expectations of the South Seas. By the queue at the ...

The UN's cultural organisation on Saturday included the megaliths of Carnac and the banks of Morbihan, a vast area including famous alignments of menhirs in western France, on its World Heritage List.

In 1954 the Castle Bravo test exploded a 15-megaton bomb – one thousand times more deadly than the one dropped on Hiroshima.

Few international visitors make it to this corner of the Mediterranean, where France’s head of state has vacationed since the ...

Thirty-two historically and culturally significant sites have just joined the illustrious ranks of UNESCO World Heritage List ...