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Girls raised by the wrong mothers

Two French families who were given the wrong babies by a hospital have been awarded $3 million in compensation.

Colin Hogg: BBC drama The Missing is terrible in the very best way

Entertainment is a funny business, especially when it's not that funny at all. Take, for instance, The Missing, a new British television drama series that launched on TV One on Sunday night in both terrific and dreadful style.

Strauss-Kahn's 'prostitution ring' trial begins

French put knife in with own best eatery list

War is declared, not for the first time, between France and Britain. The conflict might be called "Michelin star wars" or "the gastronomic empire strikes back".

Rich, famous ... and on trial

Kiwi's ashes will come back home

A Kiwi killed in an avalanche in the French Alps will have her ashes brought back to the country of her birth.

Avalanche victim a 'remarkable' woman

A New Zealander who died in an avalanche in the French Alps was a “remarkable” woman and an accomplished alpinist and skier, colleagues say.

L'Oreal family fraud feud in court

The drawn-out saga of the alleged fleecing of France's richest woman - a senile L'Oreal heiress - has finally come to court.

Kiwi killed in avalanche

A New Zealander is among six skiers who went missing after being carried away by an avalanche during a trek in the French Alps.

Charlie Hebdo cartoonist breaks down

Charlie Hebdo's cartoonist broke down as he explained why he drew Muhammad on the controversial front cover.

Charlie survivor: 'Gunman spared my life'

'You are a woman, we don't kill women.' A survivor of the Charlie Hebdo massacre recalls how she stared into the eyes of a gunman who'd shot her colleagues dead.

Brian Rudman: Paris mourners display shameless hypocrisy

Russian President Vladimir Putin's new-found love of "free speech" was too much for surviving Hebdo cartoonist Bernard Holtrop to stomach, writes Brian Rudman.

Centimetres from Charlie Hebdo killers

From his hiding place, Lilian Lepere texted police vital information about Charlie Hedbo terrorists who were holed up in printers.

Paris hostage-taker was on US terror list

The hostage-taker who killed four people in a Paris supermarket siege was on a US terror watchlist.

Charlie Hebdo's defiant return

Charlie Hebdo says it will "cede nothing" to terrorists - and has defiantly placed a new cartoon of the Prophet Muhammad on its cover.

Gunman's girlfriend on CCTV

New video footage has emerged which is believed to show the fugitive widow of one of the French gunmen at Istanbul Airport.

French cop's death after Charlie victim meeting

'Together': A fightback without any violence

The hardest part - but also the most stirring - was watching the children. Little boys and girls, each clutching a tricolour emblazoned with the words "Je Suis Charlie" and singing.