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Dec. 3 (Bloomberg) -- A strike by French museum workers widened today with the Louvre and Versailles Palace joining a host of other tourist attractions to shut down as employees protested against planned job cuts.
Nov. 27 (Bloomberg) -- French President Nicolas Sarkozy won his bid to install an ally as the European Commission’s next financial-services regulator, fueling British concern that traders and hedge funds will face stricter rules.
Dec. 2 (Bloomberg) -- Chancellor of the Exchequer Alistair Darling warned the incoming French financial-services regulator for the European Union to tread carefully with rules to police markets, saying Europe will suffer if London’s position is hurt.
French police detained 12 people in a sweep of a respected Paris auction house Wednesday after finding a stolen Courbet painting worth euro900,000 ($1.3 million) at an employee's house.
PARIS (AP) - Some of the French capital's most important museums, including the Louvre, the Pompidou Center and the Musee d'Orsay, are closed because of a strike.
PARIS -- Megan O’Dell hit eight 3-pointers for her 24 points, leading Charleston to a 51-46 Apollo Conference girls’ basketball win Thursday night at Paris.
Dec. 3 (Bloomberg) -- The following is a list of companies whose shares may have unusual price changes in Paris. Stock symbols are in parentheses after company names. Share prices are from the last close.
The title of Claire Denis' beautifully observed 35 Shots of Rum is never fully explained, but that's part of the quiet mystery, and majesty, of this elliptical portrait of a group of French Africans living on the outskirts of Paris. There's a story to be told about drinking down the 35 consecutive glasses, but Lionel (Alex Descas), the taciturn train conductor who is one of Denis' central ...
French President Nicolas Sarkozy, in Brazil Thursday for a one-day meeting on climate change and Amazon forest conservation, hailed new US and Chinese proposals on combating global warming as "extremely encouraging."
Former model/singer/songwriter and now France's first lady, Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, has agreed to star in heralded director Woody Allen's next motion picture.
Dec. 3 (Bloomberg) -- France Telecom SA’s Stephane Ricard, appointed deputy chief executive officer yesterday, will replace Didier Lombard as chief executive in mid 2011, Le Figaro reported, without saying where it got the information.
Dec. 3 (Bloomberg) -- Air France wants to cut the salaries of its flight crews with the aim of generating a 120 million- euro contribution to earnings before interest and taxation, Les Echos reported, citing an unidentified person.
French President Nicolas Sarkozy arrived in Brazil Thursday to urge nations straddling the Amazon basin to adopt tough measures to combat climate change and preserve rainforests.
PARIS - On a gray, drizzly day just made for a Paris museum visit, workers at the city's premier art institutions went on strike Wednesday, leaving tourists out in the...
Algerian detainee Saber Lahmar was transferred from the US prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba to French territory, his lawyer said late Monday.
France will not be a seeded team for Friday's World Cup draw, meaning Les Bleus could face powerful teams such as Brazil or Spain in the group stage, FIFA announced in Cape Town, South Africa, on Wednesday. Host South Africa will be seeded in Group A and open...
