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French railways operator denies offering migrants free travel
The SNCF denied media reports that migrants were to get free tickets to travel around France, but said waving reservation fees was a 'possibility'.
The entrepreneur who has challenged the French establishment
Xavier Niel, who is behind the surprise bid for American firm T-Mobile, has shaken up the traditional world of French business.
France's Iliad makes surprise bid for T-Mobile US
The French company - owner of mobile phone and internet network operator Free - says it has offered $15 billion for majority stake in US firm.
Amazon counter-attacks French ban on free deliveries
In response to new law the online bookseller is now charging customers in France just one centime for books dispatched to their homes.
Orange rules out French telecoms consolidation deals
Decision casts doubts over immediate prospect of reducing number of competitors in the French market in bid to end a bitter two-year price war.
Syria conflict: French journalists freed
The four, held captive for almost a year, were found by Turkish soldiers on the border with Syria blindfolded and with their hands bound.
French telecoms wars not over yet
Head of French public-sector investment body says he would be prepared to back Bouygues in tussle for control of mobile phone firm SFR.
Vivendi picks Numericable for exclusive talks on SFR
Move is blow to telecoms firm Bouygues who had also bid for its mobile phone rival, an option also backed by industry minister Arnaud Montebourg.
Paris offers free weekend transport due to high pollution
Official says public transport will be free until Sunday evening due to 'significant risks to the health of residents' as pollution continues.
SFR buyout threatens to shake up French telecom market
Some observers suggest that the return to just three main mobile phone operators will reduce competition and be bad news for French consumers.
Bouygues ready to sell mobile network in SFR bid
Bouygues Telecom's offer to sell its mobile network to Iliad, owner of Free, is dependent upon regulators approving its bid for Vivendi's SFR.
Two French hostages freed in Afghanistan
One of the men detained, a freelance photographer, managed to escape from the group who had taken him captive last November.
From penniless youth to billionaire – how Free boss Xavier Niel became one of France's most powerful men

He is one of the most powerful and influential men in France today. Not only is Xavier Niel the founder and main shareholder of the country's second biggest internet service provider, Free, the billionaire businessman is also part-owner of the nation's best-known newspaper Le Monde. Such is his power – and personality – that he is not afraid to take on Google, while he is friends with some of the most prominent families who make up France's wealthy business elite. Yet in the late 1980s Niel was a 'brilliant but penniless' youth with no formal qualifications working as a technician in the twilight world of sex chatlines and dating in central Paris. In an investigation Mediapart charts Niel's career from his lucrative ownership of sex shops in Paris and Strasbourg to the day he seized total control of the company that would ultimately make him France’s 12th wealthiest man. Laurent Mauduit and Dan Israel report.
France tells internet service provider to end ads block
Major French ISP Free has agreed to abandon its ad-blocking policy - seen as a swipe against Google - after a government minister intervened.