Film star Gerard Depardieu tells a newspaper he is preparing to end his acting career.

Discovery astronauts are back inside the space shuttle after completing the mission's first spacewalk.

Corsica has often been seen as France's delinquent province - but now its problems are reverberating on the mainland too. We report on the island's ever-thickening plots, how to get rid of the evil eye, and the voice of the angels in local part singing.