A FRENCH judge decided to annul a marriage because the bride had lied to her husband when she had said she was a virgin.

Thousands more police officers are to be put on patrol in run-down French suburbs that have been the source of mass riots across the country.

FOREIGN Minister Dominique de Villepin, a relentless critic of the US war in Iraq, will head the Interior Ministry under a French government shake-up announced last night.

Foreign Minister Dominique de Villepin, a relentless critic of the US war in Iraq, will head the Interior Ministry under a major French government shake-up announced tonight.