A French court has ordered a private clinic in Cannes to pay out €400,000 each to two now-20-year-old women who were accidentally switched at birth and given to the wrong parents.

The pregnant girlfriend of a French soldier killed in a dramatic gun rampage will marry her partner in a posthumous ceremony, a family lawyer says.

TWO French women are filing legal complaints against a junior government minister they accuse of sexual harassment, apparently encouraged to speak up after the recent arrest of Dominique Strauss-Kahn on sex crime charges.

A Chadian court sentenced six French aid workers to eight years of forced labour after convicting them of trying to kidnap 103 African children.

Six French charity workers accused of kidnapping children they claimed were Darfur orphans said they were protected by international law from any charges at their trial today.