Ex-888 boss faces French grilling
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Gaming firm 888 says former chief executive John Anderson will meet with French authorities, hurting shares.
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French President Jacques Chirac is expected to announce his retirement today after a 45-year career in politics.Comment
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The bosses of private equity firms are likely to face a tough grilling when they appear before UK MPs.
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HOUSTON - Road rage? Try restaurant rage. A 34-year-old man apparently angry that his $6 steak and cheese sandwich was too cold was arrested on a charge of threatening to kill the restaurant manager Wednesday.  Police said the manager offered to reheat Devlin B.
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TWO French police officers will face disciplinary proceedings after bungling a training exercise that caused a slab of explosives to be placed on a flight out of Charles de Gaulle airport, the headquarters of the gendarmerie in Paris said today.
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France's president is heading for a showdown with European finance ministers over the French economy.
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FORMER Japan manager Philippe Troussier was in &quot;advanced talks&quot; to become Olympique Marseilleâs new coach last night as the club president became the latest casualty of the clubâs poor form.
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An employee of the European aircraft manufacturer Airbus in Colomiers, southern France, leaves the plant.Comment
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Former French prime minister summoned for questioning by investigating judges 'who expect to file preliminary charges against him'.
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An employee of a futures brokerage affiliated with SociÃ©tÃ© GÃ©nÃ©rale was questioned in the Kerviel case.
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OTTAWA (CP) - The lawyer for former prime minister Jean Chretien is thinking of launching a legal effort to have the judge heading the federal sponsorship inquiry removed from his post.
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A 78-year-old anti-Zionist campaigner is due before the High Court on Monday facing a lawsuit from Michelin.
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Jacques Chirac, the former French president, was today being questioned by a judge over a party financing scandal dating back to when he was the mayor of Paris.
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The family of a boy who died in an E.coli outbreak want a manslaughter charge against a butcher reconsidered.
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A former restaurant inspector for France's famed Michelin Red Guide &#151; fired for revealing how it awards its coveted stars to the nation's best chefs &#151; lost a lawsuit Tuesday alleging wrongful dismissal, a Michelin lawyer said.
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The former head of Bawag, the Austrian bank linked to last yearÂs collapse of the commodities brokerage firm Refco, was arrested in France on fraud charges, Austrian authorities said. French authorities took the former executive, Helmut Elsner, who was BawagÂs general manager, into custody at his villa in southern France, a Justice Ministry spokesman told the Austria Press Agency. Bawag, the acronym for Bank FÃ¼r Arbeit und Wirtschaft A.G., has been under investigation for lending the former chief executive of Refco, Phillip Bennett, several hundred million dollars just before Refco filed for bankruptcy in October.
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The oil company Total named Christophe de Margerie, formerly the companyâs No. 2 executive, as its chief. Mr. de Margerie is under investigation in France over a possible plan to pay foreign officials for the right to drill in their countries, linked to the oil-for-food program for Iraq. Total, following the footsteps of several big French companies, announced last year that it would split the jobs of chief executive and chairman, leaving Thierry Desmarest, who currently holds both posts, as chairman only. Mr. de Margerie, left, currently head of the exploration and production division, has worked for Total for more than 30 years. The French authorities placed him under investigation in October for âcomplicity in the abuse of company goodsâ and âcomplicity in corrupting foreign officials.â Total insists it has abided by the rules of the United Nations oil-for-food program, which allowed Saddam Hussein to sell oil in exchange for humanitarian goods.