He can keep the $800,000 worth of gold bars and coins he unearthed while digging for a swimming pool in his backyard.

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A man in the Lyon region of France found gold bars and coins worth more than $800,000 while digging a swimming pool in his ...

As part of a seismic schedule change for the 2028 Games, track and field, and not swimming, will lead off the Olympics. In releasing the detailed schedule Wednesday, organizers revealed that the first ...

After becoming a divorced empty nester, I left the United States to buy a farmhouse in rural France. The past few years have ...

A juvenile flamingo that escaped from a British wildlife sanctuary earlier this month has been spotted on a beach in northern ...

Ownership of a treasure belongs to the one who finds it on their own property.” This line from the French civil code, written ...

Seine-Saint-Denis was long dismissed as a gritty industrial outpost, this northern neighbour of central Paris has reinvented ...

The 25-year-old Australian had been on an extended break since the Paris Olympics but had previously said she planned to return for the 2028 Los Angeles Games. "A tough one, a really tough one, but ...

Under its immaculate vault, soft light streams over a now silent pool. Once a temple to swimming, La Piscine de Roubaix has become an exceptional Art Deco museum in which shelter masterpieces of the ...

The Pool Films is being launched by Pulsar Content co-founder Gilles Sousa and producer Tim Belda, with the backing of Digital District Group and the Victorine Studios in the French Riviera. As France ...