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Italian killer 'St Valentine's beast' arrested in France

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Bartolomeo Gagliano, 55, a convicted Italian serial killer, was arrested on the French Rivierra after escaping from an Italian jail.

French café fined for undeclared labour after clients return empties to bar

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Zealous social security payments' agency gave owners of a Brittany bar a 9,000-euro fine for 'illegal' use of clients as a workforce.

Chinese magnate in helicopter crash after buying Bordeaux vinyard

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Lam Kok, owner of Hong Kong-based hotel group Brilliant, and three others feared dead in crash while touring the vinyard just hours after buying it.

World's first artificial heart implant performed in Paris

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The Georges Pompidou Hospital said the male patient who received the heart, which will beat at least five years, was awake and responding well.

Paris announces EU to consider joint mission in CAR

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French President François Hollande says EU will decide next month on helping French forces keep peace in war-torn Central African Republic.

France hails new eurozone banks mechanism, but analysts unconvinced

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François Hollande says new institution to save or shut troubled eurozone banks will spare governments, but financial experts are sceptical.

Hollande shrugs off failure to halt rising unemployment trend

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As latest forecast says French jobless rise will continue, François Hollande said 'everything has been done' in his pledge to stop it by 2014.

Paris charity raffle offers Picasso for 100 euros

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Money raised from the sale of 100-euro tickets in a raffle of L'Homme au Gibus will go towards helping renovate the Lebanese city of Tyre.

France showing more fighting spirit than Britain, says UK defence chief

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General Sir Nicholas Houghton praised French interventions in Africa, warning that the UK displayed a “creeping aversion to risk".

Cool German reaction to French appeal for support in Central Africa

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Germany appears to have dismissed French calls for EU partners to help with financial support and ground troops for its CAR peacekeeping mission.