French choreographer and dancer Roland Petit, who helped set up Les Ballets des Champs-Elysees and formed several more dance companies, died on Sunday in Geneva at the age of 87, the Paris Opera Ballet said. Petit created around a hundred dramatic ballets, which often combined fantasy with contemporary realism, including The Strolling Players and Carmen, and did the choreography for several French and US films.

Leading eurozone countries and China are showing clear sign of slowdown and the United States and Japan could be slipping towards a downward slope, the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Develo

French President Nicolas Sarkozy has said his ministers should not go on summer vacation and instead work round the clock, according to a top official. “He (Sarkozy) said ministers do not take holidays.

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Former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn plans to sue for slander a French woman who said she will file an attempted rape complaint against him, his lawyers said in a statement on Monday.

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A French woman is taking legal action against former IMF head Dominique Strauss-Kahn for attempted rape, her lawyer said on Monday in an interview published online.

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Dominique Strauss-Kahn's release from house arrest has stunned French politicians, the public and press, who wonder whether he can emerge clean from a sex crime case and return to the presidential rac

Doubts cast on the Dominique Strauss-Kahn sex assault case raised hopes among France's opposition on Friday that he may return to help them fight Nicolas Sarkozy for the presidency next year.

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A man grabbed French President Nicolas Sarkozy and was promptly wrestled to the ground by bodyguards on Thursday, television pictures showed.

A man in a crowd today grabbed French President Nicolas Sarkozy by the shoulder and nearly knocked him to the ground before being tackled by security officers and detained.

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