PARIS (AP) — President Francois Hollande announced on Monday a series of measures to encourage the French entrepreneurial spirit, including drastic cuts in capital gains taxes — up to 65 percent — for ...

When 80-year-old Xavier Bouget goes for a ride on his bicycle, tinkers in his workshop, waters his garden or sits down to eat a biscuit, he has a constant companion: a white female pigeon called ...

LONDON (Reuters) - International pigeon racing from continental Europe to Britain has been banned after H5N1 was discovered in wild birds in France, the Environment Agency said. Domestic racing will ...

PARISPARIS — An official close to the French president says the government will cut capital gains taxes and streamline visas for foreign entrepreneurs, hoping to persuade investors that France is ...

The view from Gabriel Rucker's hotel. Surprisingly, perhaps, the chef had never been to Paris before this June. (Courtesy of Gabriel Rucker) That Le Pigeon chef Gabriel Rucker pronounces his ...

Homing pigeons are a remarkable species with internal compasses that are able to memorize landmarks to retrace a path home. But one particular bird ended up so far off its course, it would have been a ...

Top breeder John Angwin said taking birds to Europe to fly back to the UK for cross Channel races is now almost impossible due to new restrictions. He explained that to take birds into France or Spain ...