PARIS (AFP) - The IAAF have recommended that organisers of athletics meets do not programme the javelin at the same time as events which take place inside the track after French long jumper Salim Sdiri was speared in a freak accident last year.
MONT-SEREIN, France (AP) -- Cadel Evans of Australia won the fourth stage of the Paris-Nice race Thursday, edging Robert Gesink of the Netherlands after the two riders escaped the pack and finished on the legendary Mont Ventoux.
March 13 (Bloomberg) -- Saft Groupe SA , the French maker of batteries that help power submarines and satellites, slumped the most in more than two years in Paris trading after profit missed analysts' estimate.
March 13 (Bloomberg) -- Saft Groupe SA , the French maker of batteries that help power submarines and satellites, posted its biggest decline since 2005 in Paris trading after profit missed analysts' estimate.
Australian Cadel Evans, riding for the Silence team, won the fourth stage of the Paris-Nice cycling race on Thursday at Mont Serein ahead of Dutch rider Robert Gesink.
PARIS (AP) †A Societe Generale employee who worked with Jerome Kerviel, the trader blamed for massive losses at the French bank, was released Thursday without charge after questioning, judicial officials said.
PARIS, March 13, 2008 (AFP) - Israeli writers are the stars of the Paris book fair opening under tight security on Friday after Muslim countries and authors called for a boycott of France's biggest literary event.