The trade at beef factories is unchanged this week.

EACH week delivers new revelations on the commodities front, while the rapid rise in dairy prices is threatening to bring the French on to the streets.

Italian soldiers began arriving today in Lebanon, part of the first large contingent of international troops dispatched to boost the UN peacekeeping force here since a truce between Israel and Hezbollah guerrillas was agreed three weeks ago.

JACQUES CHIRAC officiated at the traditional July 14 military parade in central Paris yesterday, on what is almost certainly his last Bastille Day as president.

A Paris judge has started legal action against a former European Parliament deputy for allegedly embezzling millions of euros and other suspected crimes, according to judicial officials.