Sarkozy, 61, unseated from the Elysée Palace in elections in 2012, said he would seek his conservative party's nomination as candidate for the 2017 elections.
The former socialist economy minister who left government after criticising austerity policies said François Hollande's presidency left 'a feeling of waste'.
The Guardian's tongue-in-cheek report shows British athletes from Manchester competing in Olympic games have won 14 gold medals, five silvers and one bronze.
Pierre and Eliane Thivillon raised the now fully-grown gorilla after taking her in as a baby, and to look after her haven't been able to leave their home since.
Nightly stays of foreign tourists were down 8.5% in 2nd quarter, and those by French tourists down 2.5%, with terrorism, bad weather and strike chaos cited as cause.
The dead fish, an endangered species, were seized near Paris in parcels sent from Guinea and bound for Hanoi probably for sale as so-called aphrodisiacs.
Bishop Nunzio Galantino denounced the ban in several coastal towns as a 'war on symbols' and a 'vulgar ridiculing of the religious sensitivity of others'.
