<p>The main suspect in the murders of four people in the southern suburbs of Paris over five months was charged with murder on Monday and is being held in custody, prosecutors said.</p>
<p><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">French president and candidate Nicolas Sarkozy held a massive rally in Paris on Sunday. The French press say he was caught on camera hiding his watch in fear of pickpockets.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">France’s first lady Carla Bruni-Sarkozy has admitted to disguising herself to travel incognito in Paris. </span></p>
<p>Luxury shops in Paris will soon have to switch off their lights at night to save electricity. The French government is introducing new measures to cut energy consumption. </p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">A homemade bomb exploded outside the Indonesian embassy in Paris early on Wednesday, causing some serious damage but no injuries, a source close to the enquiry said.</span></p>
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<p>Police have opened an inquiry after two synagogues in Paris received a threatening letter, a source close to the probe said Monday, making no link to a shooting at a Jewish school that killed four.</p>
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<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">An international survey asking people to rank the world's worst tourists has placed the French just behind Americans and Chinese.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Moet Hennessy, the wine and spirits unit of French luxury group LVMH, said on Thursday it will start producing red wine in the southwestern Chinese province of Yunnan, with bottling beginning in four to five years' time.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">The number of nights spent in Paris hotels hit a record in 2011, the Paris Convention and Visitors Bureau said on Monday, with a big jump in visits from China.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">A 51-year-old travel agent was stabbed to death in her shop in north-west Paris on Thursday.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">The long-running soap opera over whether footballer David Beckham will play for Paris' PSG team has ended with the former England captain rejecting a move to the French capital.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 14px; font-size: small;">2011 was a record year for visitors to some of Paris’ top tourist spots, but increasing tourist numbers are putting strains on some of the city’s finest attractions.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">A report that former England captain David Beckham had agreed to sign for French Ligue 1 giants Paris-Saint Germain is not true, a spokesperson for the football star told AFP on Tuesday.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Estate agents in the more affluent quarters of the French capital are battling to unearth a property gem in a bid to lure football superstar David Beckham and his fashion-savvy wife Victoria, according to industry insiders.</span></p>
<p><span lang="EN-GB">Travellers face long queues at the Paris Charles de Gaulle airport on Friday as security officers go on strike for 24 hours. Airport authorities however say flights should leave on time.</span></p>
<p>George Whitman, the founder of the Shakespeare and Company bookshop in Paris – a famed writers' refuge and English-language literary hub in the French capital – died Wednesday aged 98, the shop said.</p>
<p><span lang="EN-GB">The heirs of auto magnate Louis Renault are suing the French state over the nationalisation of his company in the aftermath of World War II. Historians today disagree about the extent of Renault’s collaboration with the Nazis.</span></p>
<p>French prosecutors have opened an inquiry into possible corruption over the construction of a new complex for the Defence Ministry in Paris, investigative weekly daily Le Canard Enchaîné reveals.</p>
<p>Tokyo has once again proved its worth at the top table of world food with more Michelin three star restaurants than Paris, according to the latest edition of the gastronomical guide.</p>
<p>A chain of French hotels is going all out to welcome Chinese visitors by adapting its menus and TV channels and giving its employees the necessary language skills.</p>
<p>After a smartphone application using the Paris metro map was banned by metro operator RATP, its creator decided to launch a competition to design an alternative map.</p>
<p>French narcotics police on Tuesday discovered drugs, weapons and several high-speed vehicles believed to belong to a drug trafficking network at an underground car park in Paris.</p>
