Fourteen World War I Australian soldiers killed in a 1916 battle have been discovered buried in France.

France yesterday launched the most ambitious engineering project in Western Europe since the Channel tunnel.

The new editor of MrPorter.com lists his favourite male fashion icons of all time.

Prince Charles has comforted grieving family members of Christchurch earthquake victims in London.

When the going gets tough, the tough get going at Paris Fashion Week. In a season dogged by intrigue, this could be a mantra, on the catwalk and beyond.

Sarkozy and Cameron lead drive for UN-backed intervention in Libya as Gaddafi's tanks roll

For a brief, happy period on Saturday, it seemed the United Nations Security Council resolution adopted in New York the previous day had stopped Muammar Gaddafi in his tracks.

John Galliano's recent comments have put the spotlight on the links between designers and government.

New Zealand cyclist Greg Henderson finished sixth in a sprint finish to the third stage of the Paris-Nice race today.

Jacques Chirac is set to become the first past or serving French President to go on trial for corruption.

Jewish people in France say they are well used to anti-Semitism.

Greg Henderson has been named to compete in the opening classic of the European cycling season.

French dancer-choreographer Rachid Ouramdane's multimedia performance reviewed by Raewyn White

One of the pleasures of reading an essayist as eclectic as Geoff Dyer is that one can go within a few pages from regarding him as a fount of wisdom (when his opinions match yours) to thinking he's a pretentious phoney (when they don't).