When Francois Hollande appointed Jean-Marc Ayrault prime minister of France last Tuesday, news of the new PM's name rippled through the Arabic-speaking world. The pronunciation of the prime minister's name, it turns out, "refers to the male ...

Jean Alesi, the long-retired champion Formula 1 driver, qualified for this Sunday’s Indy 500, barely. Alesi claimed the last spot on the grid with an average qualifying speed of 210 mph, almost 17 mph slower than that of pole sitter Ryan Briscoe.

Police suspected singer Wyclef Jean and activist and TV host Reverend Al Sharpton of being involved in laundering drug money, Brooklyn federal court has heard. Mr Jean allegedly received a $60,000 loan from hip hop manager James Rosamond, who is currently ...

Jean Hays Dunlap, 84, of New Cumberland, died Tuesday, May 22, 2012, at Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, NY. She retired as an employee of the former American Sentinel Insurance Company, Harrisburg; a member for over fifty years at the Pine Street ...

The Hollywood Reporter sat down with Jean Paul Gaultier at the Palais’ Café des Palmes to check in with fashion’s enfant terrible about his time as a Cannes juror. The Hollywood Reporter: Your face is on those Diet Coke ads all over Cannes. You have a ...

Jean Shirley Lahn (nee Maclean), age 80, formerly of Bay Shore, LI NY and Lafayette, CO, passed away Saturday May 12, 2012. Loving daughter of the late Malcolm Daniel and Flora Margaret Jessie Maclean (nee Mackay). Born in Watertown, MA on March ...

Belgian composer Jean-Luc Fafchamps writes in an appealingly post-everything style, with diatonic minimalist gestures butting up against wheezy microtonal drones and so forth. Fafchamps’s latest muse is the Arabic alphabet, specifically a Sufi chart ...

Jean Garvey, a lifelong Wichitan, community leader and philanthropist whose passions are for the arts and education, will be recognized Tuesday with the Dress for Success Legacy Award. The organization says the award is given annually to people ...

Confession time. I have a serious man-crush on Jean Gabin. Same for Alain Delon. Same for Jean-Paul Belmondo. In fact, any of the great Gallic icons. It’s the cool hats. The hats, and that knack they had for making everyone wish they were French.

CANNES, France—It's 43 years since Jean-Louis Trintignant was named the Cannes Film Festival's best actor for "Z," and 14 years since the French performer all but gave up filmmaking to focus on the stage. He was tempted back by Michael Haneke ...