Sarkozy Rallies

Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy was the butt of Internet jokes on Monday after he managed to shimmy his way to the front of the historic march in Paris on Saturday.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel will rally the conservative faithful this week at their party congress, which is all but certain to jubilantly re-elect her as their unchallenged party chief.

Rupert Murdoch urged Internet companies to develop digital education to revolutionise the world's classrooms.

France's increasingly fraught Presidential race is to overshadow May Day celebrations on Tuesday, with right-wing incumbent Nicolas Sarkozy staging a rally on a day traditionally dominated by unions.

Nicolas Sarkozy is making a bid for a second term but the French now find his "hyper president" style too aggressive. His reputation as a pro-rich president has been dragging him down. Mr Sarkozy celebrated his last election victory in 2007 in a posh restaurant on the Champs Elysées in Paris with his rich friends. That was his first faux pas....

More than half a dozen opinion polls in France have been predicting that French President Nicolas Sarkozy may not get elected for a second term. Socialist party candidate Francois Hollande has taken a steady lead as the front runner and is likely to win both rounds of votes in the upcoming French presidential elections. France will be picking the...

Neck-and-neck in the polls just one week before the election, France's leading presidential candidates rallied tens of thousands to separate events on Sunday to outline two very different visions of the future. On the iconic Place de la Concorde in the posh western side of Paris, President Nicolas Sarkozy appealed to his supporters' patriotism, in...

French President Nicolas Sarkozy on Friday admitted that he did not visit Fukushima during a trip to Japan after the tsunami last March, but had told an election rally that he had visited the stricken nuclear plant. Election rival Francois Hollande questioned Sarkozy's claim that he had been to the nuclear plant, BBC reported. Sarkozy admitted th...

Rupert Murdoch urged Internet companies to develop digital education to revolutionise the world's classrooms.

Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy was the butt of Internet jokes on Monday after he managed to shimmy his way to the front of the historic march in Paris on Saturday.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel will rally the conservative faithful this week at their party congress, which is all but certain to jubilantly re-elect her as their unchallenged party chief.

Rupert Murdoch urged Internet companies to develop digital education to revolutionise the world's classrooms.

France's increasingly fraught Presidential race is to overshadow May Day celebrations on Tuesday, with right-wing incumbent Nicolas Sarkozy staging a rally on a day traditionally dominated by unions.

Nicolas Sarkozy is making a bid for a second term but the French now find his "hyper president" style too aggressive. His reputation as a pro-rich president has been dragging him down. Mr Sarkozy celebrated his last election victory in 2007 in a posh restaurant on the Champs Elysées in Paris with his rich friends. That was his first faux pas....

More than half a dozen opinion polls in France have been predicting that French President Nicolas Sarkozy may not get elected for a second term. Socialist party candidate Francois Hollande has taken a steady lead as the front runner and is likely to win both rounds of votes in the upcoming French presidential elections. France will be picking the...

Neck-and-neck in the polls just one week before the election, France's leading presidential candidates rallied tens of thousands to separate events on Sunday to outline two very different visions of the future. On the iconic Place de la Concorde in the posh western side of Paris, President Nicolas Sarkozy appealed to his supporters' patriotism, in...

French President Nicolas Sarkozy on Friday admitted that he did not visit Fukushima during a trip to Japan after the tsunami last March, but had told an election rally that he had visited the stricken nuclear plant. Election rival Francois Hollande questioned Sarkozy's claim that he had been to the nuclear plant, BBC reported. Sarkozy admitted th...

Rupert Murdoch urged Internet companies to develop digital education to revolutionise the world's classrooms.