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Adam Plowright works from Paris. Author of The French Exception, the first English-language biography of @EmmanuelMacron. France correspondent for @AFP. Formerly in Delhi, Brussels, London. Adam Plowright has over 5812 followers on Twitter.
Around 66 000 protesters turned out again on Saturday on the fifth round of anti-government demonstrations
An increase scheduled for January 1, was "scrapped for the year 2019" in its entirety, Environment Minister Francois de Rugy announced on BFM TV
So-called "yellow vest" anti-government protests swept France over the last fortnight were sparked initially by a rise in taxes on diesel
Macron hopes the reshaped government will signal a fresh start after a torrid few months
The campaign to prevent the ‘McDo’ is an unusual development for politicians better known for their opposition to multinational companies
Football fever has slowly built over the last four weeks as the country took its young national team to heart
Rubbish piles up on Thilafushi Island, a half hour boat trip from Male, the capital of the Maldives.
Prime Minister Kevin Rudd said he will step down as Labor leader because voters punished the party for internal warfare.
Leaders of the emerging world will discuss the creation of a new development bank at a summit shadowed by protests against the Chinese president.
Israeli diplomats have been targeted by bomb attacks in Delhi and Tbilisi with two people injured in the Indian capital when an embassy car exploded.
India hailed "extremely positive" peace talks with Pakistan on Monday with both countries looking to build on a recent warming in relations.
India’s fake pilot scandal began unravelling when a captain landed her packed airliner on the nose instead of the rear wheels.
In transport as in many things in India, the old exists alongside the new, providing tourists with numerous entertaining ways to travel in bygone style.
Indian police on Wednesday questioned the top organiser of the Delhi Commonwealth Games as part of a corruption probe into the tainted October event.
New Zealand underlined their status as the team to beat at the Commonwealth Games rugby sevens on Tuesday as they crushed Wales to enter the semis.
From a "toxic" pool to empty stadiums and faulty boxing scales, the first week of the New Delhi Commonwealth Games has served up daily blunders.
Thousands of tickets remained unsold for the Delhi Commonwealth Games Wednesday, just four days before they begin, with the troubled event also hit by another pullout from a star…
Delhi authorities are to deploy a contingent of langurs — a large type of monkey — at Commonwealth Games venues to help chase away smaller simians.
The Delhi Games faced dire warnings on Thursday of a mass pull-out by teams as organisers worked frantically to save the event from disaster.
The Delhi Commonwealth Games were plunged into crisis after the athletes’ village was described as "uninhabitable" and a footbridge collapsed.
