Nicholas Sarkozy

Policymakers at home and abroad failed to see the 2008 crisis as an opportunity to break from the past and imagine the world anew

​Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy has lost his final bid to avoid a trial on charges of corruption and influence peddling

The UN Human Rights Committee calls on France to review its 2010 law banning women from covering their faces in public

Sarkozy was taken into police custody and investigated in March over allegations of ‘misappropriation of Libyan public funds and passive corruption’

Europe is braced for an election bonanza this that will determine the politics of the increasingly contested campaign to save the single currency.

France voted on Sunday in round one of a presidential ballot, against the backdrop of a feeble economy.

A gunman suspected of killing three children and a rabbi at a Jewish school in France has wounded three police officers in a shoot-out during a raid.

A gunman has shot dead at least four people at a Jewish school in Toulouse, days after soldiers were killed in similar shootings in the same area.

The Toulouse prosecutor says a gunman has opened fire in front of a Jewish school in a southwest French city killing several people.

Despite an often fawning portrayal in the Western media, they were the Lady Macbeths.

Greece’s Papandreou has won the backing of his Cabinet to push ahead with a referendum on an EU debt bailout deal. World leaders are not convinced.

French President Nicolas Sarkozy faces implacable German opposition to demands to use unlimited European Central Ban funds to fight the debt crisis.

Five international bidders are sniffing around SA’s biggest ever tender: an estimated R1-trillion contract to build six new nuclear reactors by 2030.

You know as a country these days that you are in some kind of financial crisis when Michael Lewis shows up.

Turkey’s prime minister heads to Libya on Friday, a day after the French and British leaders were welcomed for helping to overthrow Muammar Gaddafi.