If you're keen for a shopping fix overseas this holiday season here are the best streets around the world to fill up the suitcase with goodies.

Election stalemate and fraud accusations as centre-right party rips itself apart.

Among Burgundy's mosaic of modest vine plots, one may produce dense and silky wine; another just a few metres away may make something more fruity and feminine, Caroline Berdon discovers.

The oldest brother of the Toulouse scooter killer, Mohamed Merah, denounces his own father, mother, sister and brother in his book published tomorrow.

The British-Iraqi man killed in last month's quadruple Alps shooting had access to a bank account linked to Iraq dictator Saddam Hussein.

Treasures often remain hidden - at the bottom of the sea, for example, or perhaps in some musty cellar. In Bastia, one often only needs to walk through the streets, eyes wide open, to discover them.

A battle is raging on Rue Du Faubourg Saint-Denis, a shabby Paris street where hip bars are sprouting like mushrooms, and it's part of a wider war in the city pitching sleep-starved residents against nocturnal revellers.

Sports writer Dan Coyle tells Phil Taylor about his long battle to cut through the PR myths surrounding Lance Armstrong and organised doping in cycling.

French wine and food fuel a luxurious cruise down the Rhone, worked off by ambles through scenic towns, writes Pamela Wade.

Anne D'Innocenzio discovers a love for river cruising on an eight-day trip on the Rhine, starting in Basel, Switzerland and ending in Amsterdam.

An ancient tapestry reveals a distant family connection, writes Jim Eagles.

Business tycoon Donald Trump says Kate Middleton has 'only herself to blame' for the topless photo scandal.

The cyclist shot dead in the Alps may have been the main target of the massacre, French police say, not the British al-Hilli family.

Catherine Bennett writes that as intrusive and prying as the press may be, what did Kate really expect when she took on that role?