PARIS, May 5 (UPI) -- Protesting French prison guards scuffled with police outside two of the country's main prisons Tuesday, witnesses said.

PARIS, March 28 (UPI) -- Popular French Justice Minister Rachida Dati has seen her star rise in her final days at the post, observers say.

PARIS, Feb. 13 (UPI) -- French Justice Minister Rachida Dati says she intends to run for Paris mayor despite opposition from French President Nicolas Sarkozy.

PARIS, Jan. 23 (UPI) -- Justice Minister Rachida Dati, the first French cabinet member of North African descent, has been demoted three weeks after bearing a daughter out of wedlock.

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.

PARIS, Sept. 5 (UPI) -- French Justice Minister Rachida Dati says she will not identify the father of her unborn child, prompting speculation about the unknown man's identity.

WASHINGTON, June 12 (UPI) -- France's Senate is ditching a plan to keep Turkey's 73 million Muslims out of Europe just as President Bush visits France to urge Turkish membership in the EU.