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 ...

Former French president Jacques Chirac's legal woes mounted Friday when he was warned he could face a second set of charges that he paid allies by creating fake jobs on the Paris city hall payroll. The 77-year-old political veteran was already on course to become the first former French president to go on trial, having been charged in October ...

A judge filed preliminary charges against former President Jacques Chirac on Friday over allegations that Paris City Hall paid for jobs in his political party when was mayor, part of a financing scandal that has long dogged the man who for decades ...