- Paris Book Fair opens as book sales resist recession
- Following the stars in a call for the death penalty
- Doubt cast over killer's chatroom warning
- Obama extends Iran sanctions
- Nikkei stock index surges 5.15 percent by close
- Beijing urges France to clarify Tibet stance
- Dutch police release seven after 'terrorist threat'
- Madoff spends his first night behind bars
- Japan orders warships on Somalia anti-piracy mission
- War of words heightens tension in capital
- Michael Jackson new concert dates sold out
- Death toll mounts in suspected US missile strike
- ECB is ready for 'non standard' policy
- 'Grand Paris' proposals unveiled
- Firefighter dead, several injured, in huge fire at shopping mall
- The written word opens up to Paris
- Sony France workers free boss from overnight captivity
- Austrian, Luxembourg, Swiss banks forced to ease secrecy
- Govt claims they know where kidnap victims are
- French Aubert wins second consecutive World Cup slalom
- Who paid the bill for Sarkozy's fancy Mexican holiday?
- Mexico's kidnapping nightmare
- ICC prosecutor wants genocide charge on Bashir's warrant
- Citroen's Sebastien Loeb leads on first day in Cyprus
- Raich close to World Cup title
- Brussels to probe Dexia rescue plan
- 'They hope to weather the storm by keeping a low profile'
- China hungry for Iraqi oil
- Three aid workers freed by 'bandits'
- No more survivors expected in chopper crash
- Madoff lawyers to appeal for bail
- Khodorkovsky case divides Russians
- Last governmental supporters rally around presidential palace