A 47-year-old New Orleans man was sentenced Wednesday to more than four years in federal prison for robbing a French Quarter bank last year.Steven Lyle Fickes previously pleaded guilty to robbing a Capital One bank on July 21, 2008, according...

Susan Egelstaff reaches the quarter-finals of the Bank of Scotland International Badminton Championships in Glasgow.

French defender William Gallas (C) scores against Irish forward Keith Andrews (R) and Irish defender Kevin Kilbane during the World Cup 2010 qualifying football match France vs. Republic of Ireland on...

French network operators are counting on their SIM cards to put NFC in phones, while Twinlinx offers a self-adhesive Bluetooth device with similar functions.

A countdown and Christmas tree lighting officially marks the holiday season in New Orleans.

Restaurant should reopen by the end of the year

Two competing approaches to equipping mobile phones with contactless communications capabilities vied for supporters at the Cartes exhibition in Paris this week. Either approach could turn phones into self-service electronic tour guides, travel tickets or secure payment terminals.

German magazine publisher Burda makes strategic investment in social networking site Xing.com German mag publisher Burda Media is buying a 25.1 percent stake in the business-focused social networking site Xing.com for a total of €48.29 million (£42.7 million, $71.9 million), making it Xing's biggest single shareholder. Burda is making the deal through its Burda Digital division , buying 1.32 ...

French tyre maker Michelin will build a new factory in Brazil at a cost of hundreds of millions of dollars, the company's chief executive Michel Rollier told a newspaper Saturday.

Nick Atkin's untimely death from meningitis at the age of 49 has robbed the historical world of a scholar whose research and writings have done much to illuminate modern French and Catholic history.