The 1988 Vuelta a España winner sees the French Grand Tour as a step up too soon for French cycling's new golden boy ...

French expectations have weighed heavily on the shoulders of their countrymen over the years, the honour of being the ‘next French Tour winner’ bestowed onto many a rider who could’ve been celebrated ...

French musician Michel Portal is a versatile performer on clarinet, saxophone, the Argentine bandoneon, and the Hungarian tárogató. (AFP pic) Michel Portal, a French pioneer of European modern jazz ...

AFP File photo of Jazzman Michel Portal (L) performs on the stage during the Jazz Festival "Les Rendez-vous de l' Erdre" on August 30, 2013, in Nantes, northwestern France. (Photo by Frank PERRY / AFP ...

Paris (France) (AFP) – Michel Portal, a French pioneer of European modern jazz and a prolific writer of film music, has died aged 90, his agent said Sunday. A multi-instrumentalist at home with the ...

Michel Portal (L) performs during a jazz festival in Nantes, northwestern France, in August 2013. Photo by Frank PERRY / AFP Michel Portal, a French pioneer of European modern jazz and a prolific ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Michel Portal's 1965 album "Free Jazz" was considered a landmark in Europe's efforts to end American domination of the genre (JOEL ...

I first visited Bilbao, Spain, in the 1980s, before the Guggenheim Museum was built and the city was featured in prominent TV and film, like James Bond. While my then-beau rehearsed with the Bilbao ...

A mysterious glow of a neon cheesecake appeared in the papered-up windows of the subterranean kitchen under Berliner Beerhall a few weeks ago. The owners of the German pub in downtown Tacoma had ...

BERN, Switzerland — The first thing that hits you at the World Cheese Awards is the smell. As the 37th edition — part competition, part a celebration of cheese — kicked off in Switzerland on Thursday, ...

This modernist villa tucked into the French Basque coastline stands on a hilltop location, surrounded by lush pine trees and sweeping views of the Atlantic. Designed in 2016 by California architect ...