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San Francisco Chronicle - Mon Dec 7, 2:54 pm ET
Preliminary charges have been filed against nine employees of Paris' respected Drouot auction house after police found stolen art, including a painting by 19th-century realist master Gustave Courbet, prosecutors said Monday. An auctioneer and eight commission... Paris - Auction - 19th century - Gustave Courbet - France
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WTOL 11 Toledo - Tue Dec 8, 1:01 pm ET
Guinea's communications minister on Tuesday accused the French secret service of being complicit in an assassination attempt against the West African country's leader. Former colonial power France called the allegations...
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Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune - Wed Dec 9, 5:34 am ET
PARIS - France's biggest rock star, Johnny Hallyday, has been hospitalized in Los Angeles for an infection following back surgery.
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AFP via Yahoo! News - Wed Dec 2, 1:09 pm ET
British bankers slammed French President Nicolas Sarkozy Wednesday for trumpeting France's new EU commissioner, fuelling a row over regulation even as Chancellor of the Exchequer Alistair Darling sought calm.
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AFP via Yahoo! News - Wed Dec 2, 12:38 pm ET
The British Bankers' Association slammed French President Nicolas Sarkozy on Wednesday for remarks trumpeting France's new EU single market commissioner, saying they damage confidence in the EU.
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UPI - Fri Dec 4, 9:50 am ET
LONDON, Dec. 4 (UPI) -- British Prime Minister Gordon Brown's inability to meet with French President Nicolas Sarkozy prompted Sarkozy to cancel his trip to London, diplomats said.
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WashingtonTV - Thu Dec 3, 12:52 pm ET
Washington, 3 December (WashingtonTV)—Israeli opposition leader, Tzipi Lvini, discussed Iran’s nuclear program and the Middle East peace process with French President Nicolas Sarkozy in Paris on Thursday.
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EARTHtimes.org - Tue Dec 8, 12:17 am ET
Paris - On November 24, a senator from the ruling French UMP party committed a serious breach of political decorum: he publicly contradicted his political boss, President Nicolas S...
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AFP via Yahoo! News - 2 hours 23 minutes ago
France will join Germany, Madrid, Portugal, Netherlands and Sweden as official candidates to host the 2018 Ryder Cup, Sports Minister Rama Yade announced here on Wednesday.
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Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance - Wed Dec 9, 9:46 am ET
KONTICH,Belgium & PARIS----Anubex, leader in enterprise application modernization, has successfully completed a migration project for Air France Industries. Air France Industries is the aircraft maintenance arm of Air France and the group took their migrated applications into production.
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Reuters via Yahoo! News - Wed Dec 9, 11:23 am ET
Taking a page out of Apple's book, France Telecom's mobile phone unit Orange launched its own shop to sell downloadable videos, games, music and other content to its 130 million mobile phone subscribers.
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The Lafayette Daily Advertiser - 30 minutes ago
The Franciscan Missionaries of Our Lady Health System, which includes Our Lady of Lourdes Regional Medical Center, will not renew its contracts with Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Louisiana, Blue Cross announced in a news release late this morning.
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AFP via Yahoo! News - Thu Dec 3, 11:48 am ET
Israeli opposition leader Tzipi Livni said Thursday she had discussed the need for a quick resumption of Middle East peace talks during her meeting with French President Nicolas Sarkozy.
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Bloomberg - Wed Dec 9, 12:59 pm ET
Dec. 9 (Bloomberg) -- Billionaire investor George Soros , who helped push the U.K. out of the European Exchange Rate Mechanism in 1992, said France and Germany would like to see London’s financial-services industry “sink.”
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Reuters via Yahoo! News - Wed Dec 9, 6:37 am ET
Prestigious Paris restaurant La Tour d'Argent made over 1.5 million euros ($2.2 million) from auctioning off a selection of wines and liqueurs from its cellar, one of the finest in the world.