A court in Lyon ruled that Cardinal Phillip Brown was guilty of failing to report the abuse of a minor between 2014 and 2015.
Bruno Genesio’s Lyon needed to avoid defeat against Shakhtar to progress from Group F with Manchester City
So-called "yellow vest" anti-government protests swept France over the last fortnight were sparked initially by a rise in taxes on diesel
The Premier League leaders clinched a place in the last 16 for the sixth season in a row
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/ 23 February 2011
Jose Mourinho’s dreams of landing the Champions League for a third time as a coach remained firmly alive after Real Madrid secured a 1-1 against Lyon.
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/ 19 October 2009
Liverpool must recover from a bizarre ‘beachball’ loss at Sunderland, as they face French giants Lyon in the Champions League on Tuesday.
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/ 5 November 2007
Olympique Lyon’s Czech forward Milan Baros was caught speeding at 268km/h in his Ferrari, a club source confirmed Friday. Local newspaper Le Progres quoted police as saying the former Liverpool player had broken the record for speeding for that French region, set by a motorcyclist who reached 246km/h.
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/ 15 September 2007
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Odds-on World Cup favourites New Zealand brushed aside a spirited but hopelessly outclassed Portugal 108-13 in a Pool C game on Saturday, but it was not all plain sailing for the All Blacks. Portugal, the last of the 20 teams to qualify for the World Cup and with only three professionals in the match-day squad of 22, never gave up in the blistering heat at Stade Gerland.
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/ 14 September 2007
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All Black coach Graham Henry on Friday called for consistency from the International Rugby Board (IRB) when it dealt with incidents of foul play after a severe clampdown in the opening games of the World Cup. With the tournament barely into its second week, the IRB has sent out a firm message to the teams that foul play will not be tolerated.
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/ 11 September 2007
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Argentina closed in on the World Cup quarterfinals on Tuesday with a 33-3 win over a battling Georgia side, which was topped-off by a last-minute try that guaranteed a crucial bonus point. However, the eastern European side won plenty of new fans when they held the Pumas, who shocked France in the opening game, to just 6-3 at the interval.
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/ 10 September 2007
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Argentina made another statement for inclusion in a top annual competition with their win over France but their treatment as second class citizens is manifest in having to play their second World Cup match four days later. The Pumas meet Georgia in the next Pool D game at the Gerland stadium on Tuesday.
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/ 8 September 2007
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Twice champions Australia showed they are starting to rediscover their best form at the perfect time by thrashing Japan 91-3 in their opening World Cup Pool B match on Saturday. Despite playing their first game in seven weeks, the Wallabies gave a brilliant display of open rugby to pile on 13 unanswered tries in their opening match of the tournament.
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/ 13 November 2006
France were branded ”impotent” after crashing to the second heaviest defeat in their history against New Zealand, and coach Bernard Laporte admitted it was back to the drawing board in a bid to salvage some face in the rematch in Paris on Saturday.
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/ 12 November 2006
New Zealand completely outclassed France in the first of two autumn Tests in Lyon on Saturday, handing the home side an emphatic seven-try 47-3 drubbing. In an entralling display that combined ferocious defence with fearless attack, New Zealand made a mockery of the game’s billing as a contest between the world’s two leading rugby-playing nations.
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/ 7 November 2006
New Zealand coach Graham Henry on Tuesday made 10 changes to the team that beat England when he named his side to take on France in the first of two Tests in Lyon on Saturday. His decision to ring the changes from the side who outplayed the reigning world champions 41-20 at Twickenham had been widely anticipated.
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/ 25 October 2006
Top seeds Marcos Baghdatis and Gaston Gaudio were packing their bags on Tuesday after being ousted in the first round of the €659 000 Lyon ATP tennis tournament. Home hope Arnaud Clement dispatched number one seeded Baghdatis 6-2, 5-7, 6-3 as lowly German Simon Greul hammered Argentine Gaudio.
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/ 12 September 2005
Hundreds of people stripped off in Lyon, France, on Sunday to pose naked for United States photographer Spencer Tunick, who has made a name for himself by organising mass nude photo shoots around the world. Men and women of all ages turned up in the early hours to obey Tunick’s orders.
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/ 4 December 2003
Interpol said on Thursday it has issued an international arrest warrant for Charles Taylor, the former Liberian president living in exile in Nigeria, following a request from a United Nations-backed war crimes tribunal in Sierra Leone. Taylor is wanted on charges of crimes against humanity and ”grave breaches” of the Geneva Convention.
Faced by a slump in sales in the first half of the year, Beaujolais winegrowers who depend on exports for around half their turnover, are hoping that forecasts of an exceptional 2003 harvest will come true.