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French magistrates decided on Friday not to place IMF chief Christine Lagarde under formal investigation over her role in a 285-million-euro arbitration payment made to a supporter of former president Nicolas Sarkozy.

Head of the IMF, Christine Lagarde, was questioned again by French prosecutors on Friday over her role in a 285 million euro payment made to a supporter of former president Nicolas Sarkozy, which dates back to 2007 when she was Sarkozy's finance minister.

France was one of the first countries to impose laws that require ISPs terminate the service of users who repeatedly engage in copyright infringement.

IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde, leaves her apartment building before appearing in French court, in Paris, Thursday, May 23, 2013.

The International Monetary FundA's board of directors is backing Managing Director Christine Lagarde, who is being questioned by a French court over a decision she made as finance minister, a fund spokesman said.

IT ALL started with the word "normal". FranA ois Hollande chose the term to define the sort of president he promised to be.

The French army's recent intervention in Mali has sparked fresh debate about the relationship between France and Africa.

Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy, on a visit to Israel, hit out at Europe on Wednesday for failing to act in the wake of the ongoing civil war in Syria.

The National Assembly on Wednesday was taking up an education reform bill that would allow public universities to hold some courses -- like science or economics classes -- in English, a plan that has alarmed language purists and the political far-right alike.

The National Assembly on Wednesday was taking up an education reform bill that would allow public universities to hold some courses - like science or economics classes - in English, a plan that has alarmed language purists and the political far-right alike.

Now that Carla Bruni is no longer France's First Lady, she might have expected the spotlight to be back on her music career with the release of her fourth album, Little French Songs.

IMF chief Christine Lagarde will be questioned by a French magistrate on Thursday over her role in a 285-million-euro arbitration payment made to a supporter of former president Nicolas Sarkozy.

ONLY ONE YEAR INTO his presidency, FranA ois Hollande, France's bland, indecisive, but stubbornly doctrinaire socialist leader, is already setting records.

A gay couple embrace after the French parliament approved a law allowing same-sex couples to marry and adopt children French President Francois Hollande has signed a bill legalising gay marriage in France, after a right-wing challenge to the law was rejected by the country's Constitutional Council.

The court rejected the challenge but did clarify that the right of same-sex couples to adopt does not establish [France24 report] a "right to a child." French President Francois Hollande [official website, in French], a supporter of the legislation, is expected to sign the bill into law next week.

France's president is to sign into law a controversial bill that will make the country the eighth in Europe, and 14th globally, to legalise gay marriage.

The government is considering posting dedicated cultural attaches at South Africa's missions abroad, Arts and Culture Minister Paul Mashatile said on Thursday.

After years of neglect, periodic riots, and unfulfilled promises from the state, Paris's low-income suburbs are finally doing for themselves what had long been promised to them - creating opportunities for economic development and social integration.

Playing the 2022 World Cup in the searing summer heat of Qatar is "not rational and reasonable," FIFA President Sepp Blatter said in a newspaper interview.

Taxes in France are levied in various forms. No one is spared from it, not even ex-president Nicolas Sarkozy who finally had to shift to neighboring country to avoid paying taxes.