The 14th Dalai Lama, the head of Tibetan Buddhism, marked his 90th birthday Sunday with a celebration attended by thousands ...

Paris has opened portions of the Rive Seine for swimming for the first time in more than a century, fulfilling a promise of ...

Explore the Seine River, the lifeblood of Paris, in this visual tour along its most iconic bridges and surrounding monuments.

Rainfall on Sunday temporarily shut down three Seine swimming sites in Paris according to the city hall website, just one day after the river reopened to bathers for the first time in a century. Flags ...

Cries of “It is warm!” rang out across the Seine on Saturday morning as Parisians jumped into the river — legally — for the ...

“Paris Plages” transforms the banks of the Seine over several kilometers (miles) into an open-air paradise with beach bars, ...

Parisians rushed for a dip in the Seine on Saturday as authorities opened the river to public swimming for the first time ...

A year after the long-polluted River Seine was cleaned for the 2024 Paris Olympics, French officials opened multiple sites ...

First, France cleaned the polluted river so that Olympians could swim there. Now, a year later, it is opening three sites for ...

Parisians and visitors looking to cool off this summer can relax – weather permitting – at three bathing areas, including one ...

The famed Seine river in Paris opened to the public for swimming on Saturday for the first time in over a 100 years, a key ...

The French capital's iconic waterway has been largely closed to swimmers since 1923 due to pollution and risks from river ...