The trial of French serial killer Michel Fourniret and his wife heads for a verdict this week, with prosecutors seeking life in jail for the couple described as a "devil with two faces". Fourniret and Monique Olivier will be sentenced on Wednesday at the end of a trial exposing one of France’s most gruesome cases in recent years.
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/ 29 February 2008
The reason they put bubbles in it, wine-growers from Bordeaux and Burgundy have been heard to say, is because the wine is no good. But with 338-million bottles sold last year and exports up 5,3%, champagne has come far from humble times.
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/ 15 December 2007
Snail’s egg caviar anyone? It may sound like a challenge to the taste buds, but the salty, pink-white delicacy could be gracing hundreds of French tables this Christmas. Caviar and champagne are a byword for the festive season in France, while a dozen "escargots" — or snails — cooked in garlic and parsley butter and served in or out of their grey-brown spiralled shells, are a much-loved staple.
A Danish woman and her Zimbabwean husband accused of trafficking human organs in Mozambique say they have been persecuted for eight months most probably in a bid to grab land. Tania Skytte (34) said that the charges — brought on by two nuns who live in the northern town of Nampula — were baseless.