The industrial site now occupied here by Whirlpool, the American home-appliances maker, has been a remarkable survivor. Its 17 hectares of factory buildings and loading docks on the River Somme in ...

Workers come and go through a turnstile during a shift change at the Whirlpool factory in Amiens, a provincial town about a two hour drive north from Paris. The U.S. appliance maker once employed more ...

For an author who fuelled the world’s wanderlust with his books, Jules Verne, who penned Around the World in Eighty Days in 1873 (it is the most translated French novel), didn’t do much travelling.

When Amiens, France, was bombed during World War I, a painting was believed to have been destroyed — until it was spotted behind pop star Madonna when she appeared in Paris Match magazine. So, Ari, if ...

ON the centenary of the Battle of Amiens, Prince William has paid tribute to the soldiers - including many Aussies – who are widely credited with ending WWI. British Prime Minister Theresa May and ...

AMIENS, France—Goodyear has reached a severance agreement with the Comite d'Etablissement d'Amiens Nord (CGT) labor union about closing its Amiens Nord tire facility, ending a lengthy and bitter ...

The painting “Diana and Endymion” disappeared from Amiens, France, more than a century ago. The city’s mayor says Madonna could hold a key to the mystery, but experts say the pop icon has nothing to ...

Rioting earlier this week in France's northern city of Amiens has thrust the country's Interior Minister Manuel Valls into the spotlight, as he attempts to shake off claims that the Socialist ...

Seventeen police officers were injured in violent clashes with young people in the city of Amiens in northern France overnight, Interior Minister Manuel Valls said Tuesday. In addition, three public ...

President Emmanuel Macron vowed an economic revival, but as he seeks re-election, a Potemkin factory in the town where he was raised shows just how hard that can be. By Norimitsu Onishi AMIENS, France ...