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France’s economy minister Arnaud Montebourg tells General Electric he 'cannot support' terms of current plan to buy French engineering giant.

But French finance minister Michel Sapin insisted in a statement that Paris would meet the 3 percent target in 2015.

Some in the US appear to have contemplated the use of nuclear weapons as French troops faced defeat by Vietnamese forces in 1954.

The period of reform is not over yet but there is an economic turnaround, insists the French president as he marks two years in office. 

A book published in France reveals a forgotten cache of letters sent secretly to the BBC and which illustrate its role in French civil resistance.

Claude Picasso says postponement of next month's re-opening of the largest collection worldwide of his father's works is 'sabotage'.

The official lists include former ministers of Left and Right for what is tipped to be an election beset by a poor turnout and abstentions.

The ban of live pigs and pork byproducts follows the deaths from Porcine Epidemic Diarrhea Virus of seven million piglets in the US.  

The court ruled that the mother's IVF treatment in Belgium violated French law which bans medically assisted procreation for homosexuals.

Unions received a government pledge that a mandatory 48-hour warning of strike action would not be used to find replacement pilots.