Tens of thousands of fans gathered in France's Sables d'Olonne on Sunday for the start of the 10th Vendée Globe, the round-the-world solo yacht race known as the Everest of the Seas. FRANCE 24's ...

French skipper Violette Dorange will make sailing history on Sunday as she sets off on the Vendée Globe round-the-world race, ...

A sailor is aiming to be the first woman to finish a 24,300 mile (45,000km) race around the world for a second time. Pip Hare ...

Bobby Allison, founder of racing’s “Alabama Gang” and a NASCAR Hall of Famer, died Saturday. He was 86. NASCAR released a ...

Star scrumhalf Antoine Dupont has celebrated his return as captain and his scoring touch was not even needed as eight-try ...

Second in the first edition of the Vendée Globe (1989), Loïck Peyron is something of a legendary figure in French ocean ...

Through the Holocaust Reunion Project, he filled in his father’s genealogical tree with hundreds of relatives, learning the ...

Excitement is building, one day ahead of the start of the famous round-the-world yacht race, the Vendée Globe, setting off ...

And Australia’s exports to the US will almost immediately become 10 to 20 per cent more expensive. “If Trump raises tariffs ...

Queen Elizabeth II had a magnificent reign, however she was not the longest reigning monarch to ever exist globally.

France had fallen to the Nazis in 1940, but an internal resistance movement had struggled to sabotage occupying forces and overthrow the German-backed Vichy government. By late summer of 1944, as ...