Stocks have plummeted right across Europe and on Wall Street amid new concern over Greece, and talk of danger for France's credit rating.

Brigitte Bardot, angered over what she called France’s insensitivity to the plight of minks, has threatened to move to Sweden.

Bank of France governor Jean-Claude Trichet has been acquitted on charges of false accounting, clearing the way for him to become the next president of the European Central Bank.