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Lady Gaga gives fans a taste of her new album (+video)
Ubiquitous pop warbler Lady Gaga has teased her fans with a preview of a track from her upcoming album 'Born This Way'.

Paris menswear shows: Gaga's stylist creates visual drama
Isaac Hindin Miller reports from the French capital on the latest in winter menswear fashions.

France backed wrong horse in Tunisia
The French Government may have made a major error of judgment by helping Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali stay in power for so long.

Tightening the continent's belt by several notches
Finance ministers from the eurozone are meeting to consider the issue of bailouts for debt-ridden countries.

Oscar winner Marion Cotillard pregnant
The Inception star and her French actor-and-director partner Guillaume Canet are expecting their first child together.

Movie Review: Mademoiselle Chambon
A sunlit Gallic Brief Encounter, this French film of love confounded remains mostly on the right side of the line between exquisite and excruciating, thanks largely to the pitch-perfect performances of its two leading actors.

Ask Lonely Planet: More to Uluru than climbing the rock
Advice from travel experts on observing protocol in Australia's Red Centre and finding cheap accommodation in Paris.

Fat Freddy's French fan makes epic trip
When Yannick Denis won tickets to see his favourite band play in Waihi tonight, there was one minor hitch.

Rugby: Howlett arrested in Ireland - report
Former All Blacks star Doug Howlett was arrested by Irish police on suspicion of being drunk and disorderly at his Christmas party night out with his Munster teammates.

Paris plugs into rent and ride
Paris will become the first metropolitan area in the world to experiment with an extensive system of self-service hire cars.

Kiwi nous underpins Bvlgari exhibition
A Muriwai-based company's panel mounting system is holding together an exhibit celebrating the fashion house's 125th anniversary.

Fashion Plate: Georgina Robertson
Former expat Georgina Robertson has brought the fashion influences of France and England home with her to New Zealand.

Embalmed head of French king found - scientists
The embalmed head of one of the most infamous kings of France has been identified by scientists 400 years after his assassination.

Rugby: Don't rule out the French - Mannix
The debate rages on across France. Just 10 months before the Rugby World Cup, is the national team a lost cause?