L'AQUILA, Italy, July 9 (UPI) -- Wives of the Group of Eight leaders visited with Pope Benedict XVI at Vatican City while their spouses met in L'Aquila.

L'AQUILA, Italy, July 8 (UPI) -- Spouses of world leaders attending the Group of Eight summit in Italy plan to visit survivors of the L'Aquila earthquake as part of the first spouses' agenda.

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PARIS, April 28 (UPI) -- Paris police say they do not believe the thieves who stole a laptop and digital camera knew they were loaded with pictures of Carla Bruni with a former lover.

STRASBOURG, France, April 4 (UPI) -- Protests in Strasbourg forced U.S. first lady Michelle Obama and the wife of French President Nicolas Sarkozy to cancel an outing to a cancer hospice.

STRASBOURG, France, April 3 (UPI) -- French first lady Carla Bruni appeared slightly flustered during her televised meeting Friday with U.S. President Barack Obama in France.

PARIS, Feb. 27 (UPI) -- Some intimate mobile phone conversations of French first lady Carla Bruni-Sarkozy were recorded and offered for sale to magazines, French officials say.

PARIS, Jan. 7 (UPI) -- When French President Nicolas Sarkozy meets former British Prime Minister Tony Blair in Paris Thursday for a conference on morality in the markets, he will be wearing a patriotic smile.

PARIS, Jan. 3 (UPI) -- France's unmarried justice minister is a new mother and is maintaining her silence about the identity of the proud papa.