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Rugby: Hayman snubs All Blacks, stays in Europe
Carl Hayman agonised over returning to NZ for next year's World Cup, but a multi-million dollar deal in France ended up winning the day.
Soccer: Phoenix fume over hand-ball goal
Ricki Herbert had no difficulty pointing to the critical moment in last night's controversial defeat to Sydney FC.
Rachida Dati - stilettos with a steely edge
Rachida Dati's extraordinary rise to power has taken her from a council estate upbringing to the highest echelons of French politics.
Sarkozy scandal fails to fire in France
French media are noticeably quiet on rumours about President Nicolas Sarkozy and wife Carla Bruni.
Fashion: Alexander the Great's show must go on
The collection that Alexander McQueen started but never lived to complete was shown in Paris on Tuesday.
McCartney's minimalism reflects new austerity
With their cashmere sweaters and polished sling-backs, models at the Paris collections brought the upscale, impeccably groomed New York uptown girl of the mid-Nineties to mind.
French ban oral sex anti-smoking ads
A French anti-smoking campaign which showed teenagers having "oral sex" with cigarettes, has been abandoned.
Paris: City of Light at end of the tunnel
Linda Herrick refuses to let an accommodation blunder hinder her much-anticipated Parisian holiday.
French in uproar over oral sex anti-smoking posters
Controversy has erupted in France over the use of sexually suggestive posters as a smoking deterrent.
'Postal prisoner' commits suicide in cell
France's most notorious escapee, Jean-Pierre Treiber, who once posted himself out of jail in a cardboard box, hanged himself in his prison cell at the weekend.
Soccer: Ref cost us game, says Wenger
Martin Hansson, the referee who failed to spot the Thierry Henry handball that sent France through to the World Cup, is in trouble again.
French guilty of selling fake Pinot Noir
A group of French winemakers have been found guilty of selling fake Pinot Noir to the US.
France exposed troops to radiation
France deliberately exposed 300 of its conscripts to an atomic bomb test in the Sahara in 1961.
A weighty issue for airlines
The debate about extra-large passengers - should they have to buy a second seat instead of spilling over into their skinny neighbours' space - is off again.
Oracle stuns Alinghi in America's Cup
BMW Oracle have won the eagerly-awaited opener of the 33rd America's Cup, beating defending champions Alinghi by almost 4 km.
Strike brings services to standstill over cuts
Workers shut down schools, grounded flights and walked out of hospitals yesterday to protest against austerity measures brought on by the nation's staggering debt.
Britain's language gap years for primary school pupils
Sending children as young as 9 overseas for six months is a growing trend in the UK, where it's seen as one of the best ways to learn a second language.