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The couple, suspected of shuttling young women between France and Brazil on discounted tickets, were placed under investigation and jailed.

The French president and his economy minister are holding talks with the US and German groups over rival bids for Alstom's energy arm.

France's economy minister says Siemens bid for the troubled French engineering firm would create “two European champions”.

Two of four detectives arrested for gang rape were placed under investigation by a judge for allegedly raping the 34 year-old last week.

Many on the American Left have embraced Piketty's work as a landmark treatise that encapsulates the challenge facing modern US society.

Siemens is reportedly mulling an offer for the troubled French firm, just as General Electric's CEO travels to Paris for talks on its own bid.

German magazine Focus cited NATO sources in a report that Paris paid the kidnappers of four French journalists freed earlier this month.

Corsica’s Executive Council, the regional governmental body, has voted in favour of restricting property ownership to permanent residents.

A 34-year-old woman from Toronto who said her father was a Canadian policeman said she was gang-raped by four elite French police officers.

France's economy minister expresses 'patriotic concern' at mooted takeover of French engineering giant Alstom by US firm General Electric.