Jon Henley
Even in Europe’s powerhouse, the federal elections of 2017 will mark an end to a culture of political stability
Updated 31 Mar, 2016 09:13am
Even by the unusual standards of Versailles, this was one big, ugly necklace: comprising 647 diamonds weighing 2,800...
Published 29 Aug, 2014 06:25am
“SOMETHING there is,” runs a line from Robert Frost’s poem Mending Wall, “that doesn’t love a wall.” But...
Published 21 Nov, 2013 06:52am
THE second longest-serving pope in history, John Paul II, who died in office in 2005 at the age of 84, has rather habituated us of late to the idea that popes are expected to carry on until they pop off. And it is true that
Published 12 Feb, 2013 02:37am
IT is not, Louise Kelton readily admits, the first place you would expect to find a woman born in South Wales not far off 60 years ago: Washington, being formally sworn in as a US marshal, having been nominated for the post by President Barack Obama and d
Published 29 Jan, 2013 12:04am
LONDON The evidence, such as it is, isn`t what you would really call cast-iron, but let`s not be churlish, because...
Published 12 Aug, 2010 12:00am
LONDON Michael Pollan, tall, fit, not quite skinny but very definitely lean, is holding a fruit yoghurt in one hand...
Published 02 Jul, 2010 12:00am
So what do you do if you are the newly elected president of a small, relatively impoverished country whose greatest...
Published 13 Nov, 2008 12:00am
So what do you do if you are the newly elected president of a small, relatively impoverished country whose greatest...
Published 13 Nov, 2008 12:00am
So what do you do if you are the newly elected president of a small, relatively impoverished country whose greatest...
Published 13 Nov, 2008 12:00am
PARIS: Middle-class mothers in France could be paid up to euro 1,000 a month — almost the minimum wage — to stop ...
Published 23 Sep, 2005 12:00am
PARIS: French voters’ opposition to the EU constitution has risen to a record high amid mounting concern in Brussels...
Published 24 Apr, 2005 12:00am
PARIS: The public prosecutor’s office in Paris said on Friday it was opening a formal judicial inquiry into alleged...
Published 12 Oct, 2003 12:00am
PARIS: Jacques Chirac made clear his ambition for the recently revived Franco-German alliance on Monday, saying it...
Published 22 Jan, 2003 12:00am
PARIS: France’s blunt and unrepentant refusal to play by the EU economic rulebook has outraged its partners in...
Published 23 Oct, 2002 12:00am
PARIS has found itself the unexpected focus of opposition to US plans for a possible war on Iraq by becoming the...
Published 20 Oct, 2002 12:00am
PARIS: France voiced its toughest opposition yet to the US-sponsored draft UN resolution threatening military action...
Published 02 Oct, 2002 12:00am
PARIS: Twenty years after the event, the full truth of the scandal known as France’s Watergate may finally come out...
Published 11 Aug, 2002 12:00am
PARIS: The experience still gives Gabrielle nightmares. A normal morning at the Tolbiac faculty of Paris university ...
Published 21 Jul, 2002 12:00am
ALENCON (France): There is nothing very remarkable about Alencon. It is a small Normandy town in northern France of...
Published 08 Jun, 2002 12:00am
