Paris police said in a statement the gas was Mercaptan, which it said was non-toxic but smelled like rotten eggs.

The Elysee Treaty was signed by Charles de Gaulle of France and Germany's Konrad Adenauer on 22 January 1963.

The series follows the adventures of Ragnar Lothbrok (Travis Fimmel) and his ambitions to discover civilizations across the great ocean.

In Mahmudiya, a town 30 km south of Baghdad, a car bomb attack near an army checkpoint killed five people, including two soldiers.

The ExoMars project envisages the launch of an orbital probe to Mars and a landing on the Martian surface of a lander module in 2016.

Tensions soared after Japan's government bought the uninhabited islands, known in Chinese as Diaoyu and Japanese as Senkaku.

The British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said that the anti-Damascus rebels were using tanks and mortars against Kurdish forces.

Paris has launched a military campaign against Islamist fighters in Mali at the request of the Malian government.

According to the leak, the next Xbox features an AMD-made eight-core CPU running at 1.6GHz and built on x64 architecture.