London, Nov 17 (ANI): A law that banned women from wearing trousers in Paris is still in effect, it has emerged.The rule forbidding women from dressing like men-by wearing trousers- was first ...

Rome, Nov 17 (EFE) Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said here Monday that he was "disappointed" after US President Barack Obama and China's Hu Jintao agreed to not ...

Paris, Nov 15 (EFE) French President Nicolas Sarkozy and his Brazilian counterpart Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said thay have adopted a common position for the Copenhagen climate change summit that suggests, ...

Paris, Nov 15 (IANS) France and Brazil have agreed on a policy to deal with climate change ahead of a UN summit on the subject in Copenhagen, French President Nicolas Sarkozy said. "We ...

Sao Paulo, Nov 14 (DPA) Brazil plans to lower its emissions of the main greenhouse gas carbon dioxide (CO2) by nearly 40 percent by 2020, a government official said here. President Luiz Inacio ...

London, Nov 14 (IANS) French President Nicolas Sarkozy has presented movie icon Clint Eastwood with the nation's highest cultural honour. Eastwood was made a commander in the prestigious Legion of Honour in Paris ...

London, November 14 (ANI): Hollywood veteran Clint Eastwood has been made a commander in France's prestigious Legion of Honour for his contribution to the entertainment industry. French President Nicolas Sarkozy bestowed the American ...

Jerusalem, Nov. 13 (ANI): Israel has signalled fresh hope for talks with the Palestine Authority following Palestinian officials postponing the elections in their territories indefinitely. The polls were originally scheduled to be ...

Paris, Nov.13 (ANI): French President Nicolas Sarkozy has said that he is determined to ban the use of the burqa, the head-to-toe veil worn by some Muslim women, in secular France. "France ...

Copenhagen, Nov 13 (DPA) Denmark has invited 192 heads of state and government to the UN climate-change talks it will host next month in Copenhagen, reports said Thursday. Danish Prime Minister Lars ...

London, Nov 10 (ANI): French President Nicolas Sarkozy has been embroiled in a bizarre controversy after he claimed that he had personally helped to demolish the Berlin Wall on the first ...

By Meena Kar Berlin, Nov.9, (THAINDIAN NEWS) The year, 2009 marks the 20th Anniversary of 'the fall of the Berlin Wall' and Germans as well as people in other part of the world ...

Berlin, Nov. 9 (ANI): French President Nicolas Sarkozy has revealed how he actively participated in the historic fall of the Berlin Wall, by chipping away at the concrete slabs with a ...

Berlin, Nov 9 (DPA) International leaders were congregating in Berlin Monday, 20 years to the day after the fall of the Berlin Wall augured the end of Europe's East-West divide. On Nov ...

London, November 9 (ANI): French President Nicolas Sarkozy has been placed at the centre of fresh nepotism reports claiming he got an official cultural adviser to lobby a body that declined to ...

London, Nov 6 (ANI): Nicolas Sarkozy has asked wife Carla Bruni not to "intervene" in matters of public policy after rumours of her influence on the French President were doing rounds, it ...

London, November 03 (ANI): The Irish style of speech has topped the poll of the 'World's Sexiest Accent' defeating the French. The poll of 5,000 women worldwide resulted in the Italian and the ...

London, Nov 3 (ANI): Nicolas Sarkozy posed for a washing powder advertisement in his childhood, it has emerged. The 1967 published advert for Bonux shows a blond Sarkozy holding a toy plane in ...

London, Oct. 30 (ANI): Only one in three Brits want former Prime Minister Tony Blair to be appointed as the president of the European Union, a new poll has found. According to ...

London, Oct 30 (ANI): A leading French society magazine has branded Carla Bruni the new Marie Antoinette of France. Point de Vue, which specialises in covering the lives of aristocrats and European royalty, ...

New Delhi, Oct 26 (IANS) France can help India develop its food processing sector by offering its expertise and technology in the area, according to France's Minister for Foreign Trade Anne-Marie ...

Paris, Oct. 23 (ANI): The withdrawal of Nicolas Sarkozy's 23-year old son from a race to chair a 100-million-pound-a-year public agency amid nepotism allegations has become a cause of humiliation for the ...

Paris, Oct 23 (DPA) The 23-year-old son of French President Nicolas Sarkozy late Thursday dropped his controversial candidacy to head the public body that manages Europe's largest business district, La Defense. "I don't ...

Los Angeles, Oct 19 (IANS) A top Bush aide has dubbed President Barack Obama a ditherer and blasted his "indecisiveness" on foreign policy. "Weakness and indecisiveness have proved historically to be a ...

London, Oct 18 (ANI): Nicolas Sarkozy has openly supported the release of film director Roman Polanski, who has been detained on charges of having unlawful sex with a minor in late 1970s, ...

New York, Oct 17 (IANS) French President Nicolas Sarkozy has offered his support to Hollywood filmmaker Roman Polanski who has been detained by Swiss authorities for a sex offence. Sarkozy has insisted that ...

Islamabad, Oct.16 (ANI): French President Nicolas Sarkozy has said that Paris has no intention to withdraw its troops from Afghanistan, as such a step could create more trouble for 'nuclear power' ...

PARIS (BNO NEWS) -- French President Nicolas Sarkozy will meet with President Idriss Deby of Chad this week, Sarkozy's office said in a statement on Thursday. A spokesman for Sarkozy's office said the ...

Ardent Bollywood buffs who've seen the promos of the Man Ko Ati Bhave number from London Dreams are delighted by Salman Khan's tribute to Dharmendra. Khan, in his adorably mad style, ...

London, Oct 12 (ANI): French first lady Carla Bruni has been seeing a psychotherapist for the past eight years, it has emerged. It is alleged that the former model-cum-singer, who is married to ...