Fark Sells Out. France Surrenders
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Blogs are the hottest thing on the Net, but are they messing with traditional publishing principles? One of the most popular, Fark.com, is allegedly selling links. Is it the wave of the future? By Daniel Terdiman.
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A private effort to free two French hostages in Iraq ended in a fiasco Sunday. The mission to free Georges Malbrunot of Le Figaro newspaper and Christian Chesnot of Radio France International
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PARIS The French government formally ceded control of France TÃ©lÃ©com on Wednesday as it began the sale of up to E5.8 billion of shares in the second-largest European phone company.
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PARIS/LONDON  - France Telecom's FTE.PA Orange   unit has pulled out of the bidding for the UK Internet   connection business of Time Warner Inc.'s TWX.N AOL, an   industry source close to the matter said on Thursday.
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Comment on the German mainstream parties' latest electoral setback in two eastern states provides one of the main topics in today's European dailies. In France, President Jacques Chirac and three new-found allies earn brownie points.
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Sale's Sebastien Chabal is dropped by France in favour of Elvis Vermeulen for the game against Wales.
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The company has a much-needed solution, but it had little choice except to sell out.
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The company has decided to leave the public markets.
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Vandalized Jewish graves in western Europe. Growing support for extreme-right parties in Germany. Comments by France's far-right leader playing down the evils of the Nazi occupation.
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Islamic Army in Iraq. Paris rejected its demands that France scrap a law banning girls from wearing. the fate of the two reporters after initial hopes of an early release were dashed.
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After the joy, the recriminations. France's mood of national euphoria following the release of its two journalist hostages in Iraq gave way to an unseasonal public slanging match yesterday between the ...
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PARIS: France shed almost half of its 44 per cent stake in Air France-KLM yesterday, kicking off a wider deal that could see its remaining stake cut to below 20pc and give staff shares in return for pay cuts.
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'Offensive' auction protest Aaron Barschak, the "comedy terrorist" who famously gatecrashed Prince William's 21st birthday party, was yesterday ejected from a sale of Hitler artworks after "disrupting" the bidding, the BBC reports.â¦
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Arts & entertainment: Â· Attack on Bloomsbury for 'profiteering' withdrawnÂ· Stores will sell book as loss leader in price war
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A â¬700 million (Â£484 million) stake in Air France-KLM was put up for sale by the French Government yesterday, as part of an effort to more than halve its holding in the carrier to below 20 per cent.
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From correspondents in Paris, France, 10:32 AM IST France has called for the US to end its military presence in Iraq in 2008 at the latest.Comment
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France is planning to sell off up to 40 percent of state-owned nuclear engineering company Areva SA, Finance Minister Nicolas Sarkozy said Wednesday.