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Austerity advocate Merkel gets 750-euro pay rise

German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Europe’s chief advocate of austerity, is soon to pocket an extra 930 euros a month, bringing her salary to 17,016 euros a month. After meeting new French President François Hollande in Berlin Tuesday, Merkel insisted she would not give in to his call to renegotiate the eurozone stability package.

France - report + slideshow

Louis XIV railway carriages take to Paris-Versailles line

France's new president

Hollande, Merkel fail to stop market slide as Greece faces new election

Report: Cannes Film Festival 2012

Global stars, the Arab Spring and remembering Marilyn Monroe at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival

France's new president

Who is François Hollande's new prime minister, Jean-Marc Ayrault?

All about 2012 French presidential election

Dossier

France

Cannes Film Festival 2012

Short features

World news explained

North African cinema goes to Cannes
On-the-spot France

France's new president in Mr Average swearing-in
African news explained

Ecowas sends troops to Guinea Bissau but not Mali

Life and arts

05/05/2012 - France

Police find priceless paintings in Corsican carpark

Three renaissance Italian paintings and another by French old master Nicolas Poussin were found in a car park in Corsica Friday after a tip-off to magistrates investigating their theft last year ...

07/05/2012 - Slideshow - French presidential election 2012

Slideshow: French presidential second round in Saint Denis

Saint Denis is one of the most ethnically diverse regions on the outskirts of Paris. Figures for school drop out rates and unemployment more or less correspond at just under 30 per cent.

19/04/2012 - France

Cronenberg, Loach, Haneke in race for Cannes Film Festival Palme d'Or

Films by Canadian director David Cronenberg, Briton Ken Loach and Austrian Michael Haneke will compete for the Palme d'Or the 65th Cannes Film Festival, organisers said Thursday.

04/05/2012 - France

Moebius original drawings to be auctioned in Paris on Saturday

A drawing by the late French comic book artist Jean Giraud, alias Moebius, is expected to fetch 40,000 euros when it goes up for sale at auction on Saturday in Paris .

29/04/2012 - France

Slideshow - Miss Black France

Riot police were called to contain a potentially volatile situation between ultra-nationalists demonstrators and spectators of Miss Black France.

13/04/2012 - France - US

French designer Philip Starck in secret Apple project

Philippe Starck is working on a project with US computer makers Apple, he told French radio Friday.

13/04/2012 - France

Cult American cartoonist Robert Crumb on show at Paris' Modern Art Museum

Paris’ Museum of Modern Art, in the centre of the capital, is offering visitors the chance to see the first-ever retrospective in France of American comic artist Robert Crumb.