Fast-track warming in Europe is making butterflies and birds fall behind in cooler habitat moves and causing worrying turnover in plant species.
France will investigate failures to detect faults with breast implants after a supplier admitted to selling risky silicone.
A lack of confidence among investors in the prospects for the eurozone has pushed the value of the euro down against the US dollar and the yen.
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/ 27 December 2011
Every week brought more dire forecasts in the battle to save Europe’s economic club but 2012 will be its worst year yet.
Popular former French president Jacques Chirac has been convicted of graft, but escaping a jail sentence for running ghost workers at Paris city hall.
A remote region of China that began producing fine wine only a decade ago has beaten the French wine-producing region of Bordeaux in a blind tasting.
Europe has divided in a historic rift with a majority of countries led by Germany and France moving ahead with a treaty, leaving Britain isolated.
France and Germany are to sound out European leaders about their plan to defuse the eurozone’s debt crisis, to rally support before an EU summit.
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/ 24 November 2011
A French blogger has become an internet hit by needling the rich and powerful with knitted dolls in sly recreations of the news.
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/ 14 November 2011
France has announced that al-Qaeda released three French aid workers kidnapped in Yemen in May after negotiations with a tribal chief.
South Africa and France have called a truce over their differing views of the Libya problem, and have displayed a united front regarding Syria.
President Jacob Zuma says all G20 countries should help curb the negative effects of the global financial crisis on poor and developing countries.
<b>Cat Pritchard</b> goes foraging for fungi in France.
Germany and France have issued Greece with an ultimatum that will see it receive no more aid until it decides on whether it will stay in the eurozone.
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/ 1 November 2011
Scientists have entered a new path for regenerative medicine by altering age-worn cells in people over 90 into rejuvenated stem cells.
Palestine has become a full member of Unesco in a highly divisive move that the US and other opponents say could harm renewed Mid East peace efforts.
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/ 22 October 2011
France are confident they will pose New Zealand problems in Sunday’s World Cup final and have dismissed suggestions they’ll resort to dirty tactics.
The All Blacks have suffered spectacular losses against the unpredictable Les Bleus, so Sunday’s final is a tough call.
An apartheid-era foreign affairs official has been implicated in the fraud trial of two Germans with close ties to the country’s ministry of defence.
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/ 19 October 2011
A double-notch downgrade of Spain’s credit rating has piled pressure on Europe’s leaders to make progress on solving the region’s debt crisis.
The same French players who narrowly squeaked past Wales have been given the chance to make history by beating the All Blacks in Sunday’s final.
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/ 17 October 2011
New Zealand media have declared the All Blacks would set to end 24 years of Rugby World Cup pain in the finals against France on Sunday.
SA’s Craig Joubert has been named to referee the Rugby World Cup final between overwhelming favourites New Zealand and "worst-ever finalists" France.
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/ 16 October 2011
France rugby coach Marc Lievremont slammed a section of his World Cup team as "spoiled brats" after they defied his orders on Saturday night.
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/ 15 October 2011
World Cup referees are in the spotlight again after Sam Warburton was red-carded for a dangerous tip-tackle that left the Welsh without their captain.
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/ 15 October 2011
France have advanced to the World Cup final with a narrow 9-8 win over a Wales team reduced to 14 men after the sending off of their captain.
Jamie Roberts will be aiming to produce another midfield masterclass of hard-running attack and miserly defence when Wales tackle France on Saturday.
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/ 14 October 2011
Angela Merkel and Nicolas Sarkozy have drawn up a package to counter debt crisis — but refuse to reveal details.
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/ 12 October 2011
French players involved in the national team’s semifinal exit at the last World Cup have vowed to do their best to prevent it happening again.
A rejuvenated France ran up a 16-point lead in the first half and held on to beat an error-prone England 19-12 at Eden Park on Saturday.
Tonga produced the upset of the Cup when they beat France 19-14 on Saturday but poor decision making cost the Pacific Islanders at least five tries.
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/ 24 September 2011
The All Blacks steadied the nerves of a nation with an emphatic 37-17 win over France at Eden Park on Saturday.