The French have voted pop singer and former tennis champion Yannick Noah their favourite celebrity once again, with the star beating off stiff competition from film-makers to politicians. A poll to be published on Saturday showed the flamboyant ex-French Open winner trouncing a string of opponents including former footballer Zinedine Zidane, who was third, to win the honour for ...

A Saudi princess alleged to have run up unpaid bills worth millions of euros in a Paris shopping spree has agreed to settle a 125,000-dollar tab after bailiffs turned up at her hotel, a lawyer said. Upmarket clothes store Key Largo filed suit in a Paris court this week against Maha al-Sudairi, wife of Saudi Interior Minister Prince Nayef ...

The chairman and director general of the French bank Caisse d'Epargne quit Sunday over an 800 million dollar derivative trading loss at the height of the global finance crisis. Chairman Charles Milhaud said in a statement after an emergency supervisory board meeting that he was taking full responsibility for the loss and would not seek leaving payment. The director ...