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The Constitutional Council has approved a top income tax rate of 75% after its terms were modified to make employers liable for the payment.

The German seven-time F1champion struck his head on a rock while skiing off piste at the Méribel resort and was taken to hospital in Grenoble.

French footballer Nicolas Anelka appeared to make an inverted Nazi salute, known as the 'quenelle', after scoring a goal for his English club.

A series of unprecedented sales this month suggest that Paris may finally be rising to the top ranks of the international art market.

The French interior minister is seeking legal means to ban shows by controversial comic Dieudonné after repeated anti-Jewish comments on stage.

Some 2,000 homes in Brittany were hit by power cuts from fresh storms on Friday, while 7,500 others remained cut off by damage from Storm Dirk.

After a dip in October, November unemployment figures show a 17,800 rise while government insists pledge to see reversal by 2014 is on track.

The 67 year-old Italian national, head of a Paris theatre, was arrested after driving his car into the 19th-century gates of the Elysée Palace.

Among the string of box office successes this year, several used an erotic plot to shine a light on the naked truth of socio-economic tensions.  

The Chadian troops were ambushed in the CAR capital Bangui, where heavy firefights prompted French forces to deploy tanks near the airport.