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Former Société Générale trader Jerôme Kerviel, accused of losing the bank almost 5 billion euros, loses appeal against a three-year prison sentence.

The French government plans a 7 billion-euro credit for PSA Peugeot Citroën, conditional to increased state board represention and fewer job losses.

France lacks both the mean and the will to properly tackle corporate bribery of foreign officials, say OECD anti-bribery pact monitors.

Former President Jacques Chirac once dismissed a country that eats so badly, but now the French are developing a taste for (some) British food.

Lance Armstrong, seven times winner of the Tour de France cycling race, has been officially stripped of his titles by the sport's governing body.

The shooting last week of a prominent lawyer on Corsica, the 15th such assasination this year, prompts crackdown on organised crime on the island.

A French cyclist was first target of "disorderly" gunman's massacre of four in the French Alps, including three Britons, French press reports say.

French secret services stopped tracking Toulouse gunman Mohamed Merah despite evidence of his extensive links to jihadists, reports Le Monde.

German fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld says French president François Hollande is “an imbecile” with “disastrous” policies against the rich.

Best-selling British mummy porn novel '50 Shades of Grey' has attracted critical scorn in France where a translation of it went on sale this week.