Victor Agali, a Nigerian-born footballer for Greek club Levadiakos, has been arrested at Schiphol airport near Amsterdam for carrying two fake passports, Dutch military police said on Monday. "At passport control, on December 27, he (Agali) was found to be in possession of a fake passport," said gendarmerie spokesman Robert van Kapel. Upon further investigation, the 31-year-old striker -- in ...

A strike by French dockers on Monday paralysed freight traffic at France's two busiest ports, Marseille and Le Havre, port authorities said. The one-day nationwide strike was called by the CGT union to protest the government's port reforms and press demands for compensation for workers exposed to asbestos. The work stoppage brought container and freight traffic to a ...

Around 30 paintings, including works by Picasso and Rousseau, valued at around a million euros (1.4 million dollars), have been stolen from a private villa in the south of France, police said Saturday. But a Modigliani initially believed to be part of the haul has since been found, police in Toulon said. The villa's French owner was holidaying ...