Second French bank trader freed
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A second man being questioned after huge losses at French bank Societe Generale is freed without charge.
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Jerome Kerviel, the rogue trader alleged to have cost his bank billions of euros, is police custody, reports say.
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A French national jailed in Iran for more than a year for straying into territorial waters during a fishing expedition was released on Sunday, French diplomats said.
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Would-be robbers took eight people hostage in a bank south of Paris on Tuesday, but all were released unharmed during several hours of negotiations with authorities, and the gunmen were arrested, police said.
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PARIS, Jan 26 -- The French trader accused of one of the biggest bank frauds ever surfaced Saturday -- in the custody of police, who were questioning him about bad bets that cost France's No. 2 bank billions of euros.
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The trader accused of making fraudulent transactions that cost Societe Generale &#8364;4.9 billion ($7.2 billion) hacked computers and used "several techniques of fraud," the French banking giant says.
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PARIS â A transcript of conversations between JÃ©rÃ´me Kerviel, the trader whom SociÃ©tÃ© GÃ©nÃ©rale says cost it nearly 5 billion euros ($7.2 billion), and a broker at one of the bankâs subsidiaries suggests that the second man had an intimate knowledge of Mr. Kervielâs surreptitious trading and that Mr. Kerviel was well aware of the gravity of his actions.
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A Muslim preacher who defended wife-beating is deported from France for a second time.
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Two French journalists freed after a  4-month hostage ordeal in Iraq returned to a heroes' welcome in  Paris on Wednesday as the relieved government basked in a  national wave of joy at their safe release.
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The junior trader blamed for causing a $7 billion loss at French bank Societe Generale faced a second day of questioning by finance police on Sunday.
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Police have taken into custody the trader blamed for a $7 billion fraud at French bank Societe Generale, a judicial source said on Saturday.
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Two French journalists freed from a four-month hostage ordeal in Iraq finally found total freedom on Thursday after being held for a day following their return home to be debriefed by France's DSGE intelligence ...
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French detectives interrogate trader who could have dealt with JÃ©rÃ´me Kerviel
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The Cuban government freed another jailed opponent yesterday, the sixth dissident released this week in a move widely seen as an attempt to repair relations with the European Union.
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Two French journalists freed after a 4-month hostage ordeal in Iraq returned to a heroes' welcome in Paris on Wednesday as the relieved government basked in a national wave of joy at their safe release.
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Developer turned gambler drops French bank in $7.2bn hole The apparent ease with which a former software developer turned rogue trader was able to sink France's second-biggest bank into a â¬4.9bn ($7.2bn) hole has sparked questions about the effectiveness of risk analysis systems.â¦
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PARIS, Feb. 8 -- A French futures trader was jailed Friday while investigations continued into the billions of dollars in losses he is accused of causing at Societe Generale bank.