A French secret serviceman shot dead Libya's former strongman Col Muammar Gaddafi and not a lynch mob of rebels as he lay trapped and cornered in a sewage pipe in his home town of Sirte.

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Outgoing French President Nicolas Sarkozy, who has enjoyed legal immunity for the past five years, could soon be forced to explain himself to magistrates in three separate funding scandals that have d

Nicolas Sarkozy, who lost the recent presidential race in France, is to quit politics and practice law, a media report said.

The 57-year-old outgoing French President, a qualified lawyer, will first

Nicolas Sarkozy's defeat on Sunday marked the end of a five-year presidency during which he divided a France that had put its hopes in him to break with a history of timid government complacency.

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He dubbed himself ‘Mr Normal’ during France's presidential election campaign, a modest scooter-riding everyman in touch with the concerns of ordinary voters.

But, after winning France's presidential

Outgoing French President Nicolas Sarkozy told members of his UMP party on Monday that he was serene and at peace following his loss to Socialist Francois Hollande, a source at the meeting said.

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Voters in France's overseas territories began casting ballots for Nicolas Sarkozy or Francois Hollande in a presidential election that could affect everything from Europe's efforts to fight its debt c

France went to the polls on Sunday to give its final verdict in the tense Presidential battle between right-wing incumbent Nicolas Sarkozy and his Socialist challenger Francois Hollande.

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Polling stations closed across France on Sunday for the final round of a presidential election that estimations said gave victory to Socialist challenger Francois Hollande over incumbent Nicolas Sarko

Socialist Francois Hollande was on track to defeat right-wing incumbent Nicolas Sarkozy as France saw the final day of campaigning on Friday before its presidential election run-off.

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