"The case was set down for five days and went through at the speed of a SNCF express train in France, " the family's counsel Mark James the court.

BBC: Family of Kevin Lavelle in legal bid to find killer

France insists that everything it did was performed at the express request of, and in conjunction with, the UN and its 9, 000 peacekeeping troops stationed in the country.

ECONOMIST: C?te d'Ivoire's upheaval

Scribing is a combination of the graphic processes used in France since the thirteenth century that make it possible to express accurately through the design the actual volumes of a building, its interlocking, and the characteristics of the wooden components.

UNESCO: Intangible Cultural Heritage

LUXEMBOURG, October 7, 2011-(NASDAQ: AMZN)- Amazon.fr today launched the French Kindle Store offering customers a vast selection of over 35, 000 French-language Kindle books, all 28 L'Express best sellers available in digital-the most in France-hundreds of popular graphic novels and over 4, 000 free classics in French.

ENGADGET: Amazon brings Kindle and associated ebook shop to France

The Council of Christian Churches in France has written to Dominique de Villepin, the prime minister, to express concern at the law's harshness.

ECONOMIST: A shift towards more selective immigration

The first round of France's two-round, single-constituency system has always been a time for voters to express discontent with impunity.

ECONOMIST: Those mutinous French