AUSTRIA has called for European nuclear power plants to face stress tests to reassure people worried by the crisis in Japan, while Britain and France have urged calm.

THE French government is to conduct a fourth search for the flight recorders of an Air France jet that crashed into the Atlantic Ocean while flying from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, to Paris.

THE mother of French President Nicolas Sarkozy does not want him to marry again and told a French magazine she has “had enough of brides”.

France will this week announce a series of sweeping green policies aimed at making the country an environmental pioneer.