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Senior politician on the French Mediterranean island wants to impose strict limits on property purchases and prohibited zones for non-residents.

Bordeaux and Burgundy producers face financial disaster after storms devastated thousands of hectares of vine uninsured because of high costs.

Industrial output fell 1.4 percent in June from the previous month, contrasting with recent positive data, and underlining recovery is still fragile.

GDF Suez will pay £190 million for Balfour Beatty's WorkPlace division which maintains the London Olympics park and helps to run power stations.

Police enquiries centre on late husband of a mother who disappeared with her daughter in July and who had a mistress who also vanished in 2004.

Poultry farmers protesting the sale of their eggs at a loss continue high-profile actions with a 100,000 egg spill outside a Brittany tax office.

Turkish court rules Guillaume Apollinaire's novel 'The Exploits of a Young Don Juan' reached levels of perversion unprotected by free speech.

Thousands of cases to be reviewed after a French appeals court annulls a 2004 government decree that should have been voted by parliament.

France must deepen its economic reforms to avoid long-term decline and cut the pace of fiscal tightening to help hesitant recovery, warns IMF.

Severe hail storms destroyed thousands of hectares of vine in the region around Bordeaux, leaving uninsured producers facing huge losses.