The mother of a pupil at a French pre-school has stabbed a female teacher to death in front of her class.

Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy’s car wheeled out of the court parking lot in the dead of night after he was charged in a corruption probe.

Two people are dead after an enormous boulder smashed into a tourist train, derailing it.

An explosion at a residential building and subsequent partial collapse of the edifice has left at least two people dead and injured nine others in the Champagne area of France, officials have said.

PRESIDENT Nicolas Sarkozy ordered his finance and budget ministers tofind new ways to prune the public deficit, as markets fretted over France’s strained finances and banks following a US debt downgrade.

PRESIDENT Nicolas Sarkozy ordered his finance and budget ministers tofind new ways to prune the public deficit, as markets fretted over France’s strained finances and banks following a US debt downgrade.