IMF head Dominique Strauss-Kahn was the front runner in the latest opinion polls to win next year’s presidential election in France and replace Nicolas Sarkozy.

Greece blamed the rest of Europe for not helping its crippling financial crisis today.

GERMAN and French leaders stood side by side at the World War I remembrance ceremony in Paris for the first time yesterday as events were held around the globe to honour the millions of dead.

TWO-THIRDS of French people do not want culture minister Frederic Mitterrand to resign for having written about paying young male prostitutes for sex in Thailand, an opinion poll showed yesterday.

FRENCH culture minister Frederic Mitterrand is facing calls for his sacking over a growing scandal involving an old admission that he had paid for sex with boys.

French Culture Minister Frederic Mitterrand is facing calls for his sacking over a growing scandal involving an old admission that he had paid for sex with boys.

Egypt’s antiquities czar took his campaign to recover the nation’s lost treasures to a new level today by cutting ties with one of the world’s premier museums, the Louvre, over disputed artefacts.

The French Socialist Party said today that the architect of France’s 35-hour work week has won the party’s leadership in an extremely tight race – an outcome quickly challenged by supporters of her rival.

The two candidates to be France’s next president faced each other tonight in their first televised debate of the campaign before the weekend vote, and sparks flew almost from the start.

Fugitive Cesare Battisti, a former Italian revolutionary who reinvented himself as a writer in France while wanted in Italy for two 1970s murders, has been arrested near Brazil’s Copacabana beach.

The world must act now to head off water wars in developing nations, where the resource has become so scarce, polluted or threatened that people are willing to fight over it, activists at a protest forum outside the 4th World Water Forum said yesterday.

Britain had Margaret Thatcher, Germany has Angela Merkel. Could France get Segolene Royal?

The late Socialist Francois Mitterrand is seen as France’s best president since the Fifth Republic began in 1958, more popular even than World War II hero Charles de Gaulle, the republic’s first president.

A retired French general says the orders he issued to torture and kill prisoners during the Algerian independence war were justifiable acts of duty, a court has heard.

The son of former French president Francois Mitterrand has walked out of Paris' La Sante prison after a bail of £500,000 was posted by his family and friends.

The eldest son of late French President Francois Mitterrand has changed his mind and will pay a hefty bail to leave a Paris prison after three weeks behind bars for his suspected role in an arms trafficking deal.