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President Hamid Karzai is "corrupt" but NATO has to accept that "he is our guy" in Afghanistan, French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner said, according to the New York Times. - This French Life

The European Parliament and EU member states reached a deal over a long-delayed telecoms package when MEPs dropped their opposition to French-style 'three-strikes' laws aimed at illegal internet downloaders. - This French Life

Renault have held an emergency board meeting in Paris to discuss pulling out of Formula 1 with immediate effect. - This French Life

French Europe minister says David Cameron's pledge to reclaim EU powers is 'pathetic' and will leave Britain isolated. - This French Life

Musicians and venues say regulation is strangling the French capital's cultural scene. - This French Life

A French court official was sent to Euro Disney amusement park outside Paris following a court decision last month to investigate a complaint lodged by anti-racism group SOS Racism which claimed Euro Disney used “racial profiling” in its hiring practices. - This French Life

Mr Sarkozy’s proposed reform would put an end to the institution of the independent juge d’instruction, or examining magistrate, which has existed for 200 years. - This French Life

Nicole Canet, who runs a gallery-cum-boutique of erotic pictures and historic sex toys, is holding an exhibition there on the heyday of France's legendary "maisons closes", or authorised brothels. - This French Life

The former French president Jacques Chirac has expressed his grudging admiration for Margaret Thatcher despite their bitter clashes over Europe. - This French Life

One of the most influential French intellectuals of the 20th Century, he founded the structuralist school of anthropology in the 1950s. - This French Life

Nuclear safety watchdogs in France, the United Kingdom and Finland have requested "improvements" to safety systems in the design of the third-generation EPR reactors being built by French nuclear giant Areva. - This French Life

Worshippers in the French city of Nice took on the Russian state on Monday in a court battle over the ownership of the biggest Russian Orthodox cathedral outside the mother country. - This French Life

France’s annual winter ban on tenant evictions began on November 1 and will go on until March 15. The measure guarantees some 1.8 million families who struggle to pay their rent an albeit temporary roof over their heads. - This French Life

France's top literary prize - the Prix Goncourt - was awarded to Marie NDiaye for her novel Trois Femmes Puissantes (Three powerful women). The 42-year-old writer is French-Senegalese and her novel moves between the two countries in three parts. - This French Life

The convictions of Pierre Falcone, Arcadi Gaydamak, ex-president's son Jean-Christophe Mitterrand and Charles Pasqua in a French court for arms trafficking to Angola have exposed the impunity with which arms traffickers supplied weapons to Angola during its 27-year civil war. - This French Life

For three days a week he is a GP tending the sick in his adopted village in the South of France. But Graeme Angus, an Englishman from Seaham, County Durham, devotes the rest of his working week to fulfilling a dream he first had over 20 years ago as a pharmacy student in Leicester - producing high-quality wines from his own vineyard. - This French Life

A man convicted of killing his wife at their French home and dumping her body in a lake has lost his appeal. - This French Life

At the one hundred and twenty year old puppet theatre in Paris’ Champ de Mars park, French children pack the house to scream and shout for their hero, Guignol, under the able hand of puppeteer Luigi Terrilli. - This French Life

the examining judge wants Chirac to stand trial over a couple of dozen allegedly fraudulent jobs on the city payroll when he was Mayor, from 1977-1995. - This French Life

France's migrant camp was cleared last month, but on the streets of Calais, the need for a long-term solution is clear. - This French Life

Unemployment levels across the 16 countries that use the euro rise to nearly 10%, their highest rate since January 1999. - This French Life

The former French president Jacques Chirac has been charged with alleged embezzlement dating back to his time as mayor of Paris. - This French Life

Rendezvous: Does the niqab pose a threat to French values? - This French Life

France Telecom, the owner of the Orange mobile phone network, is to set aside €1bn (£897m) to improve staff morale in an attempt to end a wave of suicides at the company. - This French Life

Swine flu infection rates have surged in the Paris area with an 80% rise in child cases in the Ile-de-France. - This French Life

A judicial official says former French President Jacques Chirac has been ordered to stand trial in an alleged corruption scandal dating back to his 1977-1995 tenure as Paris mayor. - This French Life

Ariane sent the payloads into space from its Kourou base in French Guiana. - This French Life

A former police inspector will appear before a French Court next month charged with involuntary manslaughter, following a car crash in France which killed four people from Somerset. - This French Life

Former PM's chances of winning top role slide as Sarkozy and Merkel fail to back him - This French Life

A French appeals court halts an embezzlement case against the leaders of Congo and Equatorial Guinea, and Gabon's ex-leader. - This French Life