France asks record price for envoy's Dublin home
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The residence of France's ambassador to Ireland is up for sale with a 60 million euro (45 million pound) price tag that would make it the most expensive home ever sold in the Irish Republic.
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The Israeli ambassador has criticised the French government for issuing a death certificate for Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat stating his place of birth as Jerusalem.
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Bertie Ahern insists he broke no rules in accepting money Irish PM Bertie Ahern is facing renewed pressure after revealing that he accepted 8,000 for a speaking engagement in 1994.Comment
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A Paris auction of furniture belonging to late French president Francois Mitterrand has raised 80,200 euros (102,000 dollars), most of which is to go to help a son of the former leader who is drowning under waves of criminal allegations.
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The euro sets yet another record high against the dollar, following last week's cut in US interest rates.
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Â· French president headed for showdown in Brussels  Â· He will demand greater political control over euro
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Ireland and France are both under huge pressure going into Friday's vital World Cup clash in Paris.
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Offer made at talks aimed at resolving election crisis which so far has cost 1,000 lives
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Locals in the Loire valley say too high a price will be paid to benefit from a 'miraculous' bequest
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Irish Prime Minister Bertie Ahern on   Thursday defended an 8,000-pound ($15,000) fee he was paid for   speaking at a dinner in Manchester in 1994 when he was finance   minister, saying the ethics of the case were "in order."
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France and the United States might not see eye to eye on Iraq, but Paris has turned on the Gaelic charm - when it comes to asking for American investment dollars.
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A French court fined a businessman fined 200,000 euros (135,300 pounds) on Wednesday for defacing his 18th century home in a quiet suburb of Lyon in order to turn it into a work of art called "The Abode of Chaos".
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U.S. special envoy Mitchell Reiss will join British and Irish leaders at a 1,000-year-old castle on Thursday for talks billed as a final chance to save Northern Ireland's 1998 Good Friday peace accord.
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Rupert Murdoch has offered the highest price ever for a Manhattan residence to buy a penthouse once owned by the Rockefeller family.
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Group of Seven finance chiefs meeting February 9 in Tokyo are likely to have an "interesting" discussion on exchange rates, notably on the euro, a French finance ministry official said Monday.
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A stainless steel cabinet containing 6,136 handcrafted and painted pills has set a record for the highest price paid at auction for a work by living artist, an auctioneer said.
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Two hundred years after he crowned himself emperor of France, a handwritten draft of Napoleon Bonaparte's memoirs -- littered with spelling mistakes -- fetched a record price at auction in Paris on Tuesday.