Brits invade southern France
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The British are finally getting their revenge for 1066, when William the Conqueror crossed the English Channel, subdued their ancestors, and parcelled out prime real estate among his knights.
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TWO centuries after a plucky Welsh woman in Fishguard thwarted the last attempted French invasion of Britain, the French have scored a linguistic victory over Wales without having to lift a finger.
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Dozens of people across southern Europe perished in a blistering heatwave while storms whipped the north of the continent and floods claimed four lives in Britain.
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Â· Three Britons and German swept to deaths at beachÂ· Families were on half-term break at Portuguese resort
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Two days of celebrations to honour the Allied veterans who liberated southern France near a climax.
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Two British soldiers were killed in a Taliban attack Saturday in southern Afghanistan and a number of other troops were wounded, Britain's Ministry of Defense said.
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BBC's John Laurenson reports from the French town of Caen on an influx of underage illegal immigrants.
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English is on the march through Europe, invading the languages of Moliere, Cervantes and Goethe, dominating the fields of technology and business and even taking some native tongues hostage.
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A British-led multinational force launches an offensive against the Taleban in the southern Afghanistan.
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French President Jacques Chirac began a  visit to Britain Thursday overshadowed by his withering  accusations against Washington and London of endangering the  world by invading Iraq.
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The evacuation began today of hundreds of Britons from the Ivory Coast, where anti-French rampages have left white foreigners vulnerable to attack.
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British troops began evacuating British nationals from the troubled West African nation of Ivory Coast Friday. Some 400 Britons live in the country, which has seen increasingly
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France sent reinforcements to Ivory Coast on Sunday after a bloody and confusing weekend ended with the small Ivorian air force shattered and thousands of angry people attacking French nationals and other foreigners, sometimes pulling them from their
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More than 1,000 British and Danish troops stormed five houses Friday in southern Iraq, using ground forces, boats, helicopters and jets in a raid that detained five Iraqis and confiscated a large cache of weapons, a spokesman said.
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PARIS: Franco-British relations have moved closer to what they were before the falling out over the Iraq war, judging from a London summit between French President Jacques Chirac and British Prime Minister Tony ...
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A battle group of British troops began to roll out of southern Iraq on a US-requested mission to deadlier areas near Baghdad in a major political gamble for Prime Minister Tony Blair.
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transporting them was bombarded by US forces, an aide to a French MP aiming to help free them has said. Christian Chesnot to Syria on Friday but was delayed by the firing.