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In France, unions plan to show their strength Tuesday during nationwide strikes and demonstrations. They are protesting President Nicolas Sarkozy's plans to overhaul pensions.

He wants to raise the retirement age to 62 from 60.

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In France, a rumor of infidelity has morphed into charges of international conspiracy. President Nicolas Sarkozy and his wife, Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, have denied the reports.

But his outrage that the international media picked up the rumor has turned the non-event into a national saga.

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France has been celebrating the life and works of writer and philosopher Albert Camus, who died 50 years ago this January.

But the commemoration has been fraught with politics, after President Nicolas Sarkozy suggested moving Camus' remains from a village in the south to Paris.

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France's President Nicolas Sarkozy is in the hospital. He collapsed Sunday while jogging in the heat. The presidential palace says tests have found nothing wrong but he was staying in the hospital overnight for observation.

In Paris Sunday, Spain's Alberto Contador won the Tour de France for the second time in three years. Lance Armstrong was third.

Eleanor Beardsley reports.

When he's not running France, President Nicolas Sarkozy apparently spends time on Facebook. He added videos to his Facebook page to show his more domestic side.

Sarkozy can take comfort that he has more than 96,000 people listed as Facebook friends. He may be disappointed to learn that the prime minister of Italy has more.