Cecilia and Nicolas Sarkozy have launched divorce proceedings, France's LCI television said on Wednesday.

French President Nicolas Sarkozy is making his first trip to Russia as head of state. He will hold meetings with his Kremlin counterpart, Vladimir Putin, having recently criticized Russia for "complicating" world problems.

French President Nicolas Sarkozy visits Hungary on Friday, his first trip in preparation for France's presidency of the European Union in the second half of 2008.

In his first major foreign policy speech as French president, Nicolas Sarkozy said that an Iran with nuclear weapons was unacceptable. And he warned that Iran could be attacked militarily if it did not meet its international obligations to curb its nuclear program.

President George Bush and French President Nicolas Sarkozy on Saturday stressed friendship over disagreement at a lunch of hamburgers and hot dogs at the Bush family estate aimed at improving relations strained by the Iraq war.

Neither France nor the EU paid money for the release of five nurses and a Palestinian doctor sentenced to life in Libya on charges of contaminating children with the AIDS virus, French President Nicolas Sarkozy said.

French President Nicolas Sarkozy has notified European Union finance ministers that he may not be able to wipe out his country's budget deficit by the EU deadline of 2010.

French President Nicolas Sarkozy hopes that the U.S. will take the leading role in fighting global warming and urged unity at the U.N. over Iran's nuclear program in talks with Condoleezza Rice Monday.

French President Nicolas Sarkozy is vowing to act boldly to implement far-reaching government reforms that helped him win election last month.

French President Nicolas Sarkozy has reshuffled his month-old cabinet after his center-right party's worse-than-expected showing in Sunday's parliamentary elections.

The defeat of the No. 2 Cabinet official in weekend parliamentary elections gave President Nicolas Sarkozy a comfortable majority but not the crushing victory predicted in polls. So he looked toward a possible shuffle of the less than one-month-old government Monday.

The main purpose of French President Nicolas Sarkozy's trip to Poland was to try to urge Warsaw to drop threats to veto a new European Union treaty meant to replace the stalled draft constitution.