If you think 2016 is a mess, just wait until you see what's next. A toxic mix of potential disasters could send Europe into a death spiral.

A Kiwi nun who dedicated her life to missionary work and teaching has died in a car accident in France.

Francois Fillon has won the presidential nomination for France's main conservative party after trouncing his more moderate rival at primaries.

France was expected to elect its first truly Thatcherite leader of the right, with Francois Fillon in pole position to take on far-right Front National.

All Black Aaron Smith has been pictured in public with his partner Teagan Voykovich for the first time after his toilet incident earlier this year.

The overseas adventure is set to go on for some All Blacks, following tomorrow's season-ending match in Paris.

Police were last night searching for a masked gunman suspected of stabbing an elderly woman to death in a retirement home.

Two people are dead and more than 70 monks were being held hostage by a masked man with a knife and sawn-off shotgun in in Montpellier, France.

Demand is running high, so now is the time to book an epic trip around next year's Tour de France.

Courtney Whitaker finds the secret door that unlocks a feast of clandestine cocktails in a Marseille speakeasy.

A World War Two paratrooper who survived being shot four times in the conflict died on Remembrance Sunday while the Last Post played at 11am.

Study finds if men don't pull their weight around the house, infidelity is more likely.

It is a year since terrorists launched co-ordinated attacks in Paris and slaughtered 130 innocent people.

A year after Nick Alexander died in Bataclan massacre, the friend who held him to the end braved her demons to attend a concert to reopen the Paris venue.

A French memorial will be added to the War Memorial Park in Wellington after a winning design was chosen from 43 entries.

The NZ Herald wasn't the only paper around the world to go big with the US election coverage.

Four people were killed and 14 injured when a balcony collapsed in Angers, western France, during a housewarming party, local authorities and media said.

Shandelle Battersby checks in to Ibis Styles, Charles de Gaulle Airport, Paris, and is very impressed.

Francesca Gosling sleeps on board in the lap of luxury and hops off to explore a new Riviera destination every day.

Courtney Whitaker stays at the Hotel Bastille Boutet MGallery by Sofitel, Paris.

Where y'all from? That friendly Texan drawl is the icebreaker to meeting fellow travellers on our river cruise on the Rhine and Moselle waters.

Kim Kardashian West has fled Paris after being bound and robbed with a gun to her temple by five men dressed as police in Paris.

Kim Kardashian had almost NZ$15.5 million worth of jewellery stolen by at least two armed masked men dressed as police officers when she was robbed at gunpoint.

The true core of the city of love and light is its food, top chef Raymond Blanc tells Ella Walker.

Larger-than-life actor Gerard Depardieu said his homeland France is becoming a playground for foreigners "populated by imbeciles making wine and stinky cheese".

Harko Brown, his daughters Billie and Yves and stepson Joshua Rewha, will be in need of a holiday when they return home to the Far

Among the headstones of those who never returned home, hundreds gathered in the tiny town of Longueval, in northern France.

'The nearest approach to hell imaginable' were the words Prince Charles used to describe the Battle of the Somme.

A crowd gathered on the fields of the Somme has heard the sporadic beats of a drum depicting a heart slowly taking its last beats in a sobering sunset ceremony.

It's 100 years to the day that New Zealand troops joined the Battle of the Somme in World War I. Prince Charles paid tribute to New Zealand's role in war.