Jean-Francois Rosnoblet

MARSEILLE, France (Reuters) - Police arrested Jean-Claude Mas, the founder of the French company at the heart of an international health scandal, at his home in southern France on Thursday, a police source told Reuters.

MARSEILLE, France (Reuters) - Jean-Claude Mas, whose breast implant firm Poly Implant Prothese (PIP) has sparked an international health scandal by using substandard silicone, was arrested on Thursday and could be charged with manslaughter, a French police source told Reuters.

PARIS (Reuters) - Heavy rains and flooding in southern France over the weekend forced the evacuation of about six hundred people, and three people died in weather-related deaths as a dozen local regions remained on alert on Sunday.

NEW YORK (Reuters)- For the small club of companies who trade the food, fuels and metals that keep the world running, the last decade has been sensational. Driven by the rise of Brazil, China, India and other fast-growing economies, the global commodities boom has turbocharged profits at the world's biggest trading houses.

NEW YORK (Reuters)- For the small club of companies who trade the food, fuels and metals that keep the world running, the last decade has been sensational. Driven by the rise of Brazil, China, India and other fast-growing economies, the global commodities boom has turbocharged profits at the world's biggest trading houses.

MARSEILLE, France (Reuters) - A furnace exploded at the Marcoule nuclear waste treatment site in southern France on Monday, killing one person, but there was no leak of radioactive material outside the furnace, France's ASN nuclear safety watchdog said.

MARSEILLE (Reuters) - French police cleared access to a fuel depot at Fos-sur-Mer on the Mediterranean coast after fisherman protesting over rising fuel costs blocked the site for several hours earlier on Friday, the local authorities said.

MARSEILLE, France (Reuters) - Hundreds of riot police stormed the port of Marseille in southern France on Thursday to lift a two-day blockade by Corsican ferry operators that had paralyzed sea access to loading docks.

MARSEILLE, France (Reuters) - A mentally ill man from Northern Ireland who once stabbed a work colleague in the neck was hired by a secondary school in France and taught German for nearly a month before his past caught up with him.

MARSEILLE, France (Reuters Life!) - A mentally ill man from Northern Ireland who once stabbed a work colleague in the neck was hired by a secondary school in France and taught German for nearly a month before his past caught up with him.

AIX-EN-PROVENCE, France (Reuters) - The French Catholic nun who credits the late Pope John Paul with curing her of Parkinson's disease said on Monday her sudden recovery came just as she was about to quit working because of her ailment.

PARIS (Reuters) - French police have broken up a Marseille-based international doping ring thought to be the biggest in Europe, the government said on Saturday.

MARSEILLE (Reuters) - Men armed with AK 47 assault rifles have killed a 16-year-old boy and wounded an 11-year-old in two separate drive-by shootings in Marseille, with police saying the incidents were likely drug-related.

PARIS (Reuters) - Further strikes disrupted rail and air transport in France on Thursday but the broader protest against plans to raise the retirement age appeared to be waning a day after parliament adopted pension reform legislation.

PARIS (Reuters) - French police arrested 12 people on Tuesday in early morning swoops the interior minister said were directly linked to a campaign to counter an elevated terrorism threat in Europe.

MARSEILLE, France (Reuters) - French authorities have dismantled a cybercrime network and arrested nine people suspected of being involved in the illegal sale of codes used to unlock mobile phones, police said on Monday.

DRAGUIGNAN, France (Reuters) - Flash floods caused by torrential rain killed 15 people and left 12 missing near France's Mediterranean coast, local officials said on Wednesday.

SAINT-MARTIN-DE-CRAU, France (Reuters) - Four thousand cubic meters (140,000 cu ft) of crude oil has spewed into a nature reserve on the edge of France's Camargue national park after an underground pipe burst, officials said on Friday.