Paris - German cyclist Stefan Schumacher was on Friday banned by the ruling body UCI for two years over doping at the 2008 Tour de France.
The UCI imposed a worldwide ban until January 20, 2011, two weeks after the French Anti-Doping Agency banned him for two years in France.
Schumacher was found using the latest generation of the blood booster EPO, known as CERA, during retests of the Tour samples after a test method for CERA was available.
India's largest cable company, Polycab Wires and Cables, has entered into an alliance with France's Nexans to set up Euro 60-million (Rs 400-crore) project near Baroda in Gujarat.
The joint venture, with its headquarters in Vadodara in the state of Gujarat, will cover the manufacturing and marketing of special cables for the shipbuilding, material handling, railways and windpower industries.
Paris - The head of French insurance giant AXA, Henri de Castries, warned Thursday against any panicking about the economic situation and also assured investors that AXA itself was in sound shape.
"We are earning money every day and have never asked anyone for help," the head of Europe's second-largest insurance group said.
AXA had more than enough net assets and it would not now be in the interest of investors to try to seek a capital increase, he said.
Paris - The number of unemployed in France rose to 2.2 million in the fourth quarter 2008 on a seasonally adjusted basis, the French statistics office INSEE reported on Thursday in Paris.
French First Lady Carla Bruni - Sarkozy desperately wants to start a family with her husband, President Nicholas Sarkozy. In an interview with French publication La Figaro, Bruni-Sarkozy - who has a seven year old son from a previous relationship - says, "I would like that, but I don't know if at my age it would be possible.
If it's not biologically possible, I'll adopt one. I'm not obsessed by blood ties. I think you can build a powerful bond without that. "So I'd love to have a child, but I'm not going to fight against nature.
Paris - German cyclist Stefan Schumacher was on Friday banned by the ruling body UCI for two years over doping at the 2008 Tour de France. 
India's largest cable company, Polycab Wires and Cables, has entered into an alliance with France's Nexans to set up Euro 60-million (Rs 400-crore) project near Baroda in Gujarat. 
Paris - The French Football Federation (FFF) announced Thursday that it has officially submitted its bid for the right to host Euro 2016.
Paris - The head of French insurance giant AXA, Henri de Castries, warned Thursday against any panicking about the economic situation and also assured investors that AXA itself was in sound shape.
French First Lady Carla Bruni - Sarkozy desperately wants to start a family with her husband, President Nicholas Sarkozy. In an interview with French publication La Figaro, Bruni-Sarkozy - who has a seven year old son from a previous relationship - says, "I would like that, but I don't know if at my age it would be possible. 
