A World Health Organisation report has proclaimed the French as the most likely to suffer a depressive episode in their lifetime. This week we investigate whether the French are indeed the world champions of misery and if so, what can be done to change it?
One of basketball's most celebrated players, Shaquille O'Neal, has decided to hang up his trainers for good, announcing his retirement on Wednesday after a 19-year career which saw him take home four NBA titles.
Thousands of protesters braved freezing weather across Spain on Saturday to voice their opposition to the government's austerity measures and plans to raise the legal retirement age from 65 to 67 in the new year.
French President Nicolas Sarkozy officially signed a controversial pension reform bill, raising the retirement age from 60 to 62, into law on Wednesday. The reform sparked weeks of street demonstrations and nationwide strikes.
France’s Constitutional Court approved a final version of a controversial pension reform Tuesday, giving President Nicolas Sarkozy 15 days to sign it into law. Millions have protested the bill, which will raise the age of retirement from 60 to 62.
Cigarette prices go up six per cent in price today in France. Is it enough to reduce the number of smokers or just a smokescreen for filling state coffers? One paper fumes: just what use is the price increase? That’s the focus in today’s French press review: MONDAY, 8TH NOVEMBER 2010
The government has all but won. But protesting workers across France vowed to carry on their struggle against a government they say shut the unions – and them – out of negotiations to change France's pensions system.
France's pension reform bill goes before the lower house Wednesday, a day after the Senate approved the measure raising the retirement age from 60 to 62, amid signs that nationwide strikes and protests against the reform are losing steam.
France's Interior Minister Brice Hortefeux said Tuesday that oil supplies were gradually returning "to normal", as five of the France's mainland refineries went back to business after going on strike against the government's unpopular reform.
