Nicolas Sarkozy
French readers prefer paperbacks
Ebooks in France have been slow to catch on, as readers prefer the printed page.
Kiss and tell: France captivated by president's tangled love triangle
Angelique Chrisafis Francois Hollande's private life seems anything but.
Sarkozy laughed at woodland orgy report
Nicolas Sarkozy 'laughed uncontrollably' when told that Dominique Strauss-Kahn had been caught at a woodland orgy with prostitutes but swore his aides to silence and went on to name him head of the...
French anti-austerity stand under threat
Paris Francois Hollande will come under pressure to abandon his anti-austerity platform.
All the President's women have France atwitter
Angelique Chrisafis One tweet triggers a political uproar. Angelique Chrisafis reports from Paris.
Merkel, Hollande to consider growth measures if Greeks stay the course
Berlin Angela Merkel and Francois Hollande said they would consider to spur growth in Greece.
Strauss-Kahn sues maid who alleged sex assault
New York Disgraced former International Monetary Fund chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn has reportedly filed a $US1 million countersuit against the New York hotel maid at the centre of sexual assault allegations.
Euro debt crisis casts shadow over summit
Dashed hopes that Europe may be escaping its debt crisis will darken the mood as US President Barack Obama welcomes leaders of the G8 rich nations to a summit at his Camp David retreat this weekend.
Hollande vows to remain 'normal'
Helene Fouquet, Paris Francois Hollande has reached the pinnacle of French power still claiming to be, as he campaigned, a 'normal' guy.
Sarkozy's Cuban heels let him see Hollande eye to eye
Henry Samuel in Paris Officially, Nicolas Sarkozy is 165 centimetres tall - five centimetres shorter than Francois Hollande.
Serbs choose nationalist as new leader
Gordana Filipovic Serbs joined voters across Europe in rejecting the European Union's austerity push.
Leaders pledge to keep Greece in eurozone
Edward Cody, Brussels European leaders have expressed determination to keep Greece in the eurozone and said that despite a deep divide between France and Germany, they would seek a new European Union ''growth pact''...
French women to the fore but not the front
Helene Fouquet French President Francois Hollande promised gender parity in his government and better access to power for women. He kept his word, sort of.
French police swoop nets Islamist militant suspects
Karen Kissane French police arrest 19 people suspected of being involved in a militant Islamist group in several towns including Toulouse.
Victims just like Hitler Youth, says mass killer
Karen Kissane OSLO: The teenagers he killed were not innocent non-political children but people guilty of upholding multicultural positions, the mass killer Anders Behring Breivik told a court yesterday.
Chirac set to vote against Sarkozy
Henry Samuel Former French president Jacques Chirac will vote for the Socialist candidate on Sunday.
Adieu Nicolas, despite all the right moves?
Karen Kissane The Normandy fishermen are in stained yellow waders, cigarettes dangling from their lips as they haul nets and pluck dead or dying sole from the tangles.
Muslims left in the cold as race for votes takes a right turn
Karen Kissane PARIS: The young women, faces covered with black veils, were breaking French law, but here they felt it wouldn't cause a fuss.
France casts vote that may spell end of Sarkozy
Steven Erlanger, Paris French voters will cast their ballots tomorrow in the first round of a presidential election that could give France its first Socialist leader in nearly two decades.
Polls show France will choose bland over bling
Steven Erlanger NICOLAS SARKOZY could be the first one-term French president since 1981, amid opinion polls showing he will lose to the Socialist candidate Francois Hollande in a second-round election decider.