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The French president had argued against major spending cuts in the EU budget, but accepted deal that sees its first-ever reduction for 2014-20.

Findus lasagne sold as beef-based but which contained horsemeat is made in Luxembourg for firm based in Metz which exports to 15 countries.

Bomber blew himself up at a checkpoint near the Malian city of Gao in the first such attack since France's military campaign began.

A former US ambassador to Mali said Sarkozy administration paid vast ransom demands to the Islamists that French soldiers are now fighting.

A message about 9/11 was scrawled on the celebrated Eugène Delacroix painting 'Liberty Leading The People' in a museum in northern France.

Coat the admiral wore when shot dead by a French sniper is to leave UK for the first time for show at Les Invalides, where lies Napoléon's body.

President Hollande has enjoyed acclaim for his handling of the French-led war in Mali, but a sterner challenge awaits, argues The Economist.

A nuclear accident similar to that of Fukushima in Japan would cost France about 20 percent of its economic output, IRSN study finds.

British fashion designer claims he was sacked by Dior, following an anti-Semitic outburst in public in 2011, 'without real and serious cause'.

British retailer Marks & Spencer plans rapid expansion of food shops in France after the runaway success of its recently-opened Paris stores.