World renowned anthropologist and intellectual Claude Levi-Strauss has died at the age of 100, his publisher in Paris has announced.

The former president of France has been charged for alleged embezzlement dating as far back as the 1990s when he was the mayor of Paris.

It is looking increasingly certain that a lack of support amongst both center-right and center-left politicians across Europe will put paid to Tony Blair's chances of becoming the first President of Europe.

A court in Paris today convicted the Church of Scientology in France of defrauding its followers, handing down fines to the organization and its leaders, with one of those leaders also receiving a suspended prison sentence.

Paris-based Sanofi-Aventis, the largest pharmaceutical company in Europe, signed a letter of intent over the weekend with Hangzhou-based Minsheng Pharmaceutical Group to set up a joint venture that will focus on producing vitamin and mineral supplements.

Animal activists struck at least four different fur farms in Spain and France earlier in October, releasing approximately 20,000 of the animals. Some mink were recaptured.

The singer Morrissey has been dramatically rushed to hospital after collapsing on stage during a concert in Swindon in the UK.

Iran on Friday has yet to accept a U.N.-drafted plan that would ship most of the country's uranium abroad for enrichment. Iran said it would prefer to buy the nuclear fuel it needs for a reactor that makes medical isotopes.

A UN draft agreement aimed at limiting Iran's nuclear program to peaceful purposes, such as cancer diagnosis and treatment, has been sent to Iran, the US, France and Russia.

U.K. Chancellor Alistair Darling has blocked an attempt by Sweden, which currently holds the E.U. presidency, to reach an agreement for the creation of a regulatory body for the banking sector within the European Union's 27 member states.