(Reuters) - French President Nicolas Sarkozy called on Monday for new rules to curb commodity price volatility, warning as he laid out his G20 agenda that the world risks food riots and weaker growth if leaders fail to act.

French first lady Carla Bruni was branded as a “prostitute” and “immoral” by Iranian news outlets on Monday after she expressed support for an Iranian woman sentenced to death by stoning. A report on www.inn.ir called Bruni...

A Paris court on Wednesday convicted former Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega of laundering drug money in France in the 1980s and ordered him to spend seven years behind bars — a sentence that comes on top of his two decades already spent in a U.S....

French hotel chain Accor plans to invest some $667 million to open 75 new hotels in Latin America over the next two years, the Brazilian business daily Valor reported Monday, citing company executives.

French aid worker Pierre Camatte, who was released from captivity by North African al Qaeda militants this week, met President of France Nicolas Sarkozy in Malian capital Bamako on Thursday. “I thank my friend the president of Mali (Amadou...

France’s national phone company has held a mass emergency meeting to discuss a wave of staff suicides blamed on redundancies and cuts. France Telecom’s head of human resources Olivier Barberot held a conference call with all 20,000 managers...

The French tradition of the cheek-to-cheek greeting kiss - known as ‘la bise’ - is under threat thanks to swine flu. Some French schools, companies and a Health Ministry hotline are telling students and employees to avoid the social ritual...

Twenty short people were apparently ordered to stand behind Nicolas Sarkozy so as to make him look taller while delivering a keynote televised speech, it emerged today. They were brought in after being ‘vetted’ by aides of the French...

The unemployment rate in the European Union pushed higher in April, indicating that nascent signs of economic recovery had yet to be felt in the labor market. The seasonally adjusted unemployment rate for the 16 countries that use the euro currency...

An Air France plane on its way from Brazil to Paris has gone missing with 228 people on board, the airline said on Monday. ( Watch ) Its last known location was unclear. Brazilian television said the Brazilian air force had started a search mission...