PARIS, July 22 (UPI) -- French energy firm Gaz de France canceled its bid to become the seventh member of the construction team for the Nabucco gas pipeline, statements said.

BRUSSELS, June 12 (UPI) -- The French natural gas company Gaz de France is the subject of a European Commission inquiry into an alleged conspiracy with German utility E.ON.

PARIS, Feb. 8 (UPI) -- Defending champion Amelie Mauresmo was among Thursday's winners at the Open Gaz de France tennis tournament in Paris.

MOSCOW, Sept. 14 (UPI) -- Gazexport, an export arm of Russian energy giant Gazprom, may extend an agreement with Gaz de France on natural gas supplies for another eight years.

BIRMINGHAM, England, Aug. 1 (UPI) -- Russia's Gaz Group has paid $93 million to buy LDV, a financially ailing British vanmaker based in Birmingham.

PARIS, Feb. 24 (UPI) -- Gaz de France and Franco-Belgian utility Suez are mulling a tie-up to fight off a hostile bid by Italy's Enel for the big French company. The move by Enel, a major electricity producer, sent Suez shares up sharply, the Financial Times said Friday.

PARIS, Feb. 7 (UPI) -- Indian Sania Mirza upset sixth-seeded Italian Flavia Pennetta in Tuesday's first-round action at the $600,000 Open Gaz de France.

PARIS, Feb. 13 (UPI) -- Russian teenager Dinara Safina Frenchwoman Amelie Mauresmo in Sunday's final of the Open Gaz de France.

HASSELT, Belgium, Oct. 3 (UPI) -- Top-seeded Russian Elena Dementieva rallied Sunday to take a three-set win over Russian Elena Bovina in the final at the inaugural Gaz de France Stars.