Ricki Herbert had no difficulty pointing to the critical moment in last night's controversial defeat to Sydney FC.

Rachida Dati's extraordinary rise to power has taken her from a council estate upbringing to the highest echelons of French politics.

French media are noticeably quiet on rumours about President Nicolas Sarkozy and wife Carla Bruni.

The collection that Alexander McQueen started but never lived to complete was shown in Paris on Tuesday.

With their cashmere sweaters and polished sling-backs, models at the Paris collections brought the upscale, impeccably groomed New York uptown girl of the mid-Nineties to mind.

A French anti-smoking campaign which showed teenagers having "oral sex" with cigarettes, has been abandoned.

France's most notorious escapee, Jean-Pierre Treiber, who once posted himself out of jail in a cardboard box, hanged himself in his prison cell at the weekend.

Martin Hansson, the referee who failed to spot the Thierry Henry handball that sent France through to the World Cup, is in trouble again.

A group of French winemakers have been found guilty of selling fake Pinot Noir to the US.

France deliberately exposed 300 of its conscripts to an atomic bomb test in the Sahara in 1961.

The debate about extra-large passengers - should they have to buy a second seat instead of spilling over into their skinny neighbours' space - is off again.

Workers shut down schools, grounded flights and walked out of hospitals yesterday to protest against austerity measures brought on by the nation's staggering debt.

Sending children as young as 9 overseas for six months is a growing trend in the UK, where it's seen as one of the best ways to learn a second language.

Most adults lack an 'effective level of literacy'.

The almost indestructible, iconic French tumblers are boucing back into global domination.

Fashion blogger Isaac Hindin Miller files from the Paris Haute Couture shows.

Fashion blogger Isaac Hindin Miller finds himself playing photographer's assistant at the Paris Haute Couture shows.