A dozen migrants trying to get from northern France to Britain avoided a grisly death when a truck driver found them hidden in a tank just as he was about to fill the cistern with sulphuric acid, according to local factory workers.
In 1916, 1,800 Australian soldiers died during the battle of Fromelles, a little town in northern France. 93 years later, the remains of 400 of them have been found, and Australia is ready to take their home.
Frederic Oudea, 46, is the new chief executive of Societe Generale, the French bank rocked by a mammoth trading scandal last year. He was appointed a week after former chairman Daniel Bouton resigned.
Anti-corruption activists have hailed the decision by a French magistrate to investigate three African heads of state accused of plundering state coffers to go on lavish spending sprees in Paris and the French Riviera.
A Hungarian court decided that the Russian mother of three-year-old Elise be extradited to France, where she faces charges of kidnapping her child and trying to bring her to Russia. Elise has been at the heart of a multinational custody battle.
French universities are in crisis and have been for months now. The government's vast reform of higher education is simply not being supported by those who work and study within them.
Anti-corruption activists have hailed the decision by a French magistrate to investigate three African heads of state accused of plundering state coffers to go on lavish spending sprees in Paris and the French Riviera.
Two years of Nicolas Sarkozy. Does France's bling-bling president have any reason to celebrate on this low-key election anniversary? Not necessarily, according to French poll numbers, with 65 percent claiming they're disappointed by his performance.
Two years of Sarkozy. Has France's bling-bling president got reasons to celebrate on this low key election anniversary? Not necessarily according to French poll numbers, with 65 percent claiming they're disappointed by Sarkozy's performance.
The French spend more time asleep and at the dinner table than their counterparts in economically developed countries, according to an OECD study. The French devote nearly double the time to meals than do Americans, Britons or Mexicans.
