France is in thrall at a dispute which has all the incendiary plot-lines of a great TV melodrama.

Equities slid overnight amid further signs of economic weakness in China, Europe and the US.

When asked in an interview about receiving a 'blood diamond' Naomi Campbell stormed out - but she won't have the same option open to her when she appears in The Hague.

The leggy Australian is drawing on her three-decade career as a supermodel to relaunch her television career.

Auckland-born Emilia Wickstead dresses the British Prime Minister's wife but her feet are firmly on the ground, writes Zoe Walker.

Air NZ has hit out at an aviation safety specialist's interpretation of what went on before an Airbus A320 crashed into the Mediterranean off France in 2008.

There are fears Spain's top tourist site could be endangered by a plan to build a high-speed rail tunnel just 4 metres away.

British pop star Cheryl Cole is set to make an appearance in long-running comic The Beano.

Paul Smith is music mad. Rock'n'roll is at the core of each one of his collections.

Even the more outlandish pieces at Raf Simons only served to make the traditional seem even more covetable in the end.

Despite a predominance of coats, the Dior Homme collection was practically weightless and no garment was without a quirk of design.

The latest menswear fashions, as seen on the runway in Paris.

Georgian authorities have removed a massive statue of Joseph Stalin from the main square of his hometown, Gori, in a secret late-night operation.

Making a cameo on the Pyramid Stage, the awkward royal could no sooner pull off the festival look as he could his dress.

The Independent's Rob Sharp joins the masses at the UK's most famous music festival.

The All Whites begin arriving home on Sunday, but an official celebration could be at least a week and up to a month away.

At Louis Vuitton today, the show notes suggested a virtual reality traveller.