Wildfires burned down several villages in the central part of the country as forests and swamps turned into tinderboxes under a record-breaking heat wave.
Adolf Sauerland, the mayor of Duisburg, has received death threats since 21 people where trampled to death at the Love Parade music festival.
Two United States Embassy employees in Paris were being examined on Friday after handling an envelope, but officials said its contents did not appear to be harmful.
Catherine Ashton, the European Union foreign policy chief, will be missing out on time at the beach to grapple with French irregular verbs.
Lawmakers reduced the sentences of hundreds of Kurdish youths, some of them guilty only of attending protests.
Salmonella outbreaks that sickened more than 400 in the U.S. and Britain have been traced to mice sold as food for exotic pets.
The French president on Wednesday ordered the expulsion of Roma who had committed offenses and said that illegal camps would be taken down.
