President Nicolas Sarkozy of France filed a legal complaint against a former intelligence chief who kept diaries filled with information about Mr. Sarkozy’s personal life.

As the financial storm spread, some of the 27 nations that make up the European Union have broken ranks to protect their own citizens and banks.

Despite their pledge, the leaders of Europe’s largest economies failed to offer a systemwide answer to a credit crisis that has forced them to bail out several banks in just the past week.

The coded diplomatic cable also quotes the British ambassador as predicting that the campaign against the Taliban will fail.

The coded French diplomatic cable also quotes the British ambassador in Afghanistan as predicting that the NATO-led campaign against the Taliban will fail.

Russian military officials said the monitors would not be allowed to work immediately in the buffer zone that surrounds South Ossetia, the breakaway Georgian enclave.

Russian military officials said the monitors would not be allowed to work immediately in the buffer zone that surrounds South Ossetia, the breakaway Georgian enclave.

President Nicolas Sarkozy of France called for an overhaul of the world’s financial system, arguing that an era of unregulated markets was over.

The 19th Arrondissement is one of the most fascinating districts of Paris — one of the largest, youngest, poorest, most racially diverse — and the most criminal.

Bernard-Henri Lévy confronts French leftists on issues and revisits a conversation with President Nicholas Sarkozy.