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Some consider France's new 15-point school charter on secularism to be a thinly-veiled attack on Islam.

Security of circus outside Paris under investigation after elephant escaped and struck 84-year-old man with its trunk.

In latest in a series of high-profile thefts in France this summer, thieves made off with 2m euros in gems and watches after smashing through window.

Main opposition party says it raised money in just two months after election auditors ruled former president's 2012 campaign had overspent.

The charter, to be posted in all French schools, underlines that pupils cannot object to lessons and curriculum for religious reasons.

Israeli customs arrested the man as he tried to cross from Jordan with 152 kg in gold bars, nearly $2 million in checks and 500 kg of tobacco.

Qatar now owns an estimated 6.3bln euros-worth of property in France, encouraged by a controversial deal that offered it tax-free profits from sales.

At a joint press conference in Paris, US Secretary of State and his French counterpart say countries ready to join attacks number 'double digits'.

A consensus is building in France that the next to be buried in the Pantheon should be from that half of the population almost totally overlooked.

One year after a British family and a French cyclist were murdered near Annecy, British and French investyigators claim 'great advances' in the case.