A French court found former President Jacques Chirac guilty in a historic verdict on Thursday of embezzling public funds to illegally finance the conservative party he long led, and handed him a sus

French prosecutors on Tuesday demanded a second life sentence for the veteran Marxist militant Carlos the Jackal for carrying out four bomb attacks in France in the early 1980s that killed 11 people a

French judges are to rule on Thursday in the unprecedented corruption case against aged ex-leader Jacques Chirac, the first time a former French president has faced charges in court.

The Eiffel Tower and its surroundings in Paris were evacuated on Friday evening after an anonymous caller, claiming to be member of terror outfit Al Qaeda, said there was a bomb kept nearby.

Police r

Among offbeat and zany stories from the year just ending:

- The bad news for a group of employees in a Canadian technology company was that the firm was closing down and laying them off. The good ne

From Elizabeth Taylor to Osama bin Laden, here are leading figures who have died in the year just ending:

January

- 4: Pakistani politician Salman Taseer, shot at age 66.

- 24: Mexican Bishop Samue

English Premier League superpowers Manchester United and Manchester City crashed out of the Champions League as French side Lyon achieved a seven-goal miracle to reach the last 16.

United, the Europe

A group of parents have taken teachers hostage in the French town of Berre l’Etang, south of the country.

Police visited the scene on Wednesday but have refused to intervene.

The parents were demand

A shock warning that almost the entire eurozone including Germany is sliding towards a debt downgrade left EU leaders with just three days on Tuesday to bridge big splits over the debt crisis.

It als

Greenpeace said on Monday it had exposed the 'vulnerability' of French nuclear sites after its activists broke into and reached the heart of an atomic plant near Paris before being arrested.

The dawn