Bordeaux

A huge fire that has devastated swathes of southwestern France was largely contained, but firefighters face another “complicated” day, local authorities said on Friday. The 40-kilometre (25-mile) active fire front in the Gironde and Landes…

PARIS : Former champions Girondins Bordeaux have been reinstated in France’s second division, three days before the start of the new season, after being relegated down to the third tier over financial irregularities.They were handed a…

PARIS: Bordeaux have avoided relegation to the French third tier for financial irregularities, three days before the start of the new season, France's football federation (FFF) announced on Wednesday (Jul 27). The six-time French champions…

Southampton complete their SIXTH summer signing after sealing the £11m capture of France under-21 striker Sekou Mara from BordeauxSouthampton complete the £11million signing of Sekou Mara from Bordeaux Mara is a French under-21…

PARIS : Strong winds and hot, dry weather are frustrating French firefighters’ efforts to contain a huge wildfire that raced across pine forests in the Bordeauxregion on Saturday for a fifth straight day, one of several scorching Europe…

Strong winds and hot, dry weather are frustrating French firefighters' efforts to contain a huge wildfire that raced across pine forests in the Bordeaux region. (AP photo)PARIS: Strong winds and hot, dry weather frustrated French…

BORDEAUX: French police have broken up a gang that had allegedly produced hundreds of thousands of bottles of fake Bordeaux wine in an elaborate counterfeiting operation, prosecutors said on Friday (Jul 1). Officers investigating drug…

With Bordeaux in disarray, anger unwilling to subside and financial Armageddon seeing them unceremoniously demoted to the third tier, fans would be forgiven today for thinking back to the night of April 7, 2010, inside a raucous …

PARIS: The Gironde department around Bordeaux banned outdoor public events and those at indoor venues without air conditioning, a local official told public radio on Friday (Jun 17), as France is gripped by an early heatwave. Local prefect…

Crisis-hit Bordeaux are relegated to France's THIRD TIER amid crippling financial woes, with the six-time French champions already sent down from Ligue 1... as the club express their 'DISMAY' over 'brutal' decision and launch…