France's govt yesterday admitted that the country's biggest airport might run out of fuel, as pension reform protesters blockade refineries.

While we ponder what to buy this season, designers in Europe are showing what will be hot for summer in 2012.

L'Oreal is considering a bid of US$44 ($58.16) a share for Avon, the UK's Daily Mail reported.

Sometimes the simplest of garments brings out a display of virtuosity in designers more effectively than anything more obviously sensational.

The French are the experts when it comes to all aspects of culture. Julie Harries explores Auckland's Gallic connections in a quest to gain some quintessential French style and attitude.

Marc Jacobs has long flirted with danger and it has yet to do him much harm.

The company will make the services available on Airbus A340-500s and A380s and Boeing's 777-300ER models.

A new book about Coco Chanel captures the spirit of the great designer. Here Viva explores how Chanel revolutionised women's fashion, and why, even 25 years after Karl Lagerfeld took over, the label remains as iconic as ever.

Lagerfeld's shows are never presented on anything less than the grandest scale but, even so, such an ostentatious display of wealth and power was breathtaking.

Stay ahead of the game with some of the key trends and moments from the latest international fashion weeks.

French counter-terrorism investigators arrested 12 people in two separate raids this morning.

If anyone can be credited with the return of so-called 'real' clothes to the catwalk then it is the British-born designer, Phoebe Philo.

If wine had a personality, pinot noir's would be strangely alluring while requiring occasional therapy.

Dan Carter has been accused of asking for "crazy money" by Toulon rugby club owner Mourad Boudjellal.

Call them old-fashioned, but these nudists just want good, clean fun in the sun.

Former Penrith star Craig Gower is investigating a surprise return to the NRL with Canberra or Parramatta.