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The cause of the fire, which struck the seventh floor of the building in central Paris and spread through the attic to the roof, was not immediately known.

The announcement follows French inspectors' raids on three Renault sites this month in a probe into the veracity of the carmaker's emissions claims.

The French president told business leaders France faced an 'uncertain economic climate' and was in a state of 'economic and social emergency'.

Six other members of a group of about 50 troops were injured after an avalanche hit their skiing exercise at an altitude of more than 2,000 metres.

Three other men are in intensive care in a Rennes hospital with what doctors fear may be irreversible brain damage after the Phase 1 clinical trial.

Up to 27 people are feared dead and 33 wounded after suspected Islamist gunmen attacked a hotel and bar in the West African state's capital.

There were angry scenes at a court near Paris after it dismissed charges against the officer, finding he shot a suspect in the back in self-defence.

Rania posts Twitter message in response to weekly's black cartoon joke that infant who died on Turkish beach could have become 'groper in Germany'.

The probes are to determine if the procedure of the trial, which left one man brain dead and three other critically ill, was at fault, or the drug.

The six people were volunteers in now-suspended trials for a new pharmaceutical drug performed in a laboratory in the western city of Rennes.