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But court rejects star's argument that novel exploited her image and awarded her €2,500 in damages rather than the €50,000 she claimed.

Union says 71 percent of employees, from actors to stage hands, voted for opening night stoppage in ongoing row over unemployment benefits.

Witnesses at school in Albi, southern France, say the mother of a pupil shouted 'I am not a thief' as she stabbed the nursery school teacher.

Challenge by German goalkeeper that broke French defender's jaw but went unpunished still raises anger and emotion in France 32 years later.

Organisation also fears voter resistance to spending restraints could jeopardise France's long-term strategy for restoring public accounts to health.

The 16-year-old, who is now in police custody in France, headed to Syria to fight after telling his father he was going to a nightclub. 

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.

In TV interview the former French president portrays himself as victim of an allegedly politically-motivated section of the country's judiciary.

Pole Wojciech Janowski says he did not fully police and now denies having ordered the killing in May of 77-year-old Helene Pastor in Nice.

Beleaguered former president hits out angrily in TV interview at those parts of the judiciary he says are seeking to humiliate and destroy him.