Paris, April 18 (Xinhua-ANI): International Monetary Fund (IMF) chief Christine Lagarde will be summoned by a French court in late May as part of the investigation into an alleged corruption relating to a controversial arbitration of the Tapie case, French daily Le Figaro reported Thursday.

London, Mar. 28 (ANI): Carla Bruni has dismissed the accusation as 'unthinkable' that her husband, Nicolas Sarkozy, took advantage of the mental weakness of an elderly billionaire to finance his rise to power.

London, Mar 23 (ANI): Lawyer for former French president Nicolas Sarkozy have rejected claims of exploiting the mental frailty of the country's richest woman to raise election funds as 'flawed'.

London, Mar 22 (ANI): Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy has been placed under formal investigation over claims his 2007 election campaign received illegal donations from the country's richest woman.

London, March 21 (ANI): Carla Bruni Sarkozy is reportedly all set to go back to her first career- modelling.

London, Feb. 15 (ANI): Nicolas Sarkozy in planning to run for the post of French President again in four years time, in defiance of his wife Carla Bruni's wishes, it has been revealed.

London, Jan. 10 (ANI): A fresh probe against ex-president Nicolas Sarkozy has been authorized by French judes, as part of the so-called 'Karachi affair'.

Sydney, Nov 29 (ANI): Carla Bruni-Sarkozy has been caught in a Twitter war after telling French Vogue that her generation had no need for feminism.

London, November 27 (ANI): Carla Bruni, the self-styled champagne socialist who is famed for her pseudo-Bohemian lifestyle and years of modelling experience, has now returned to her roots as the Christmas cover girl of French Vogue.

London, November 26 (ANI): Carla Bruni, who has lived a life far removed from most women's, has suggested that a woman's place is in the home with her children.

Sydney, Nov 22 (ANI): The US embassy in Paris has 'categorically' denied media reports saying that the American government was behind a hacking attack against computers in the French President's palace earlier this year.

Paris, Nov. 6 (ANI): Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy is set to appear in court to answer allegations that he accepted illegal cash from France's richest woman.

Paris, Oct. 30 (ANI): An aide of French former president Nicolas Sarkozy has been charged in an illegal political funding scandal known as the 'Karachi Affair'- a complex probe into alleged kickbacks on arms deals.

London, Oct 26 (ANI): As Valerie Trierweiler tries to draw a line for the fracas surrounding her private life with French president Francois Hollande, her predecessor Carla Bruni has suggested it would be easier if she were married and not a mere presidential partner.

London, Oct. 15 (ANI): Sexist stereotypes, humiliating photographs of women and male bylines dominate the front pages of British newspapers, according to a research.

London, Oct 14 (ANI): Rachida Dati, who was France's first woman justice minister in Nicolas Sarkozy's government, has said that certain politicians should have their quadruple, triple lives disclosed.

London, October 11 (ANI): Francois Hollande "shared" his mistress Valerie Trierweiler with a minister from Nicolas Sarkozy's government in a 'Jules et Jim'-style relationship, a new biography has claimed.

London, Oct 4 (ANI): France's former justice minister Rachida Dati is set to face jail if she returns to her family's native Morocco for having a child out of wedlock.

London, Oct. 4 (ANI): Nicolas Sarkozy is set to again make an audacious bid to become the President of France for the second time in 2017, it has emerged.

London, Oct 1 (ANI): Slain Libyan Muammar Gaddafi was killed by a French secret serviceman acting on the orders of Nicolas Sarkozy, it has emerged.

London, August 11 (ANI): A controversial, thinly veiled fable of political love and war in Nicolas Sarkozy's fiefdom in the rich western suburbs of Paris is the surprise bestseller of the summer in France after it cost its author her job, infuriated the politician's son Jean, and stoked tensions in the already fractured rightwing UMP party.

London, August 9 (ANI): The French have voted the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge among their favourite married couples while Nicolas Sarkozy and Carla Bruni fell drastically out of favour.

Paris, Aug 2 (ANI): A bronze statue of former French President Nicolas Sarkozy's wife, Carla Bruni, portraying her as a 'worker', has sparked off outrage across the country.

New York, July 23 (ANI): Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy's half brother Olivier has been dubbed "le nouveau French lover" by the Paris press ever since he and Mary-Kate Olsen became a celebrity couple.

London, July 20 (ANI): Nicolas Sarkozy's son Pierre seems to be have been taking tips from his model stepmother Carla Bruni, as he made his modeling debut for men's fashion brand Mr Porter.