Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy has confirmed his intention of stepping down from being the head of the conservative party in order to run in presidential election primaries.

France’s top appeals court dealt a blow to Nicolas Sarkozy’s hopes of a presidential comeback when it ruled that taped recordings of his conversations with his lawyer were admissible as evidence against him in a case involving alleged corruption.

French magistrates have handed former president Nicolas Sarkozy preliminary charges over suspected illegal overspending on his failed 2012 re-election campaign.

WikiLeaks has published documents it says shows the US National Security Agency (NSA) eavesdropped on the last three French presidents.

Far-right Front National have won just 62 of the 4,108 seats in French local council elections and failed to win control anywhere.

Nicolas Sarkozy is making a political comeback in France.

Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy is under formal investigation for alleged influence peddling, according to reports.

French judges have dropped an investigation into former president Nicolas Sarkozy over allegations that he illegally took donations from France’s richest woman on the way to his 2007 election victory.

Several hundred angry protesters have booed President Nicolas Sarkozy, forcing him to take refuge in a cafe protected by riot police as he campaigned in France’s south-west Basque country.

French president Nicolas Sarkozy has launched a personal Twitter account and geared up for a prime-time TV appearance amid expectations he will at last announce his re-election bid.

French President Nicolas Sarkozy's has denied new claims that he took undeclared campaign cash from the heiress to the L'Oreal cosmetics fortune five years ago, just as the race for next year's presidential elections is heating up.

French President Nicolas Sarkozy today denied allegations that his 2007 presidential campaign received €150,000 in secret cash donations from France's richest woman.

French president Nicolas Sarkozy was released from hospital today after undergoing tests following his collapse while jogging.

French President Nicolas Sarkozy was recovering in the hospital today, a day after he collapsed while jogging in hot weather, his office said.

French president Nicolas Sarkozy was being monitored in hospital today after collapsing during a jog.