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Sex and cheese as Sarkozys meet The Simpsons
Tuesday, 24 November 2009
Nicolas Sarkozy and Carla Bruni have entered the only real pantheon of international celebrity – by being parodied in The Simpsons. A short clip of their unauthorised, and rather uncomplimentary, appearance has become one of the most-viewed clips on the French-language internet in the past few days.
Taxpayers ride to rescue of Paris bike-hire scheme
Tuesday, 24 November 2009
Public funds used to bail out Vélib project after 26,000 bicycles are stolen or wrecked
Italian stallions: The sex lives of Mussolini and Berlusconi
Tuesday, 24 November 2009
Mistress's diary reveals Mussolini's lust, while memoir tells all on Berlusconi.
Incumbent president wins first round of Romanian vote
Monday, 23 November 2009
Incumbent President Traian Basescu won the first round of Romania's presidential election last night, and will face leftist leader Mircea Geoana in a Dec. 6 runoff, exit polls showed
Tony Paterson: The bratwurst is yet to come
Monday, 23 November 2009
Berlin Diary: Today sees the opening of the first of the 60 Christmas fairs that have mushroomed throughout the city
Tearful Knox hears prosecutor demand life sentence for her
Sunday, 22 November 2009
She killed a British student because she hated and resented her, says lawyer
The accidental uprising: How 'corpse' killed Communism
Sunday, 22 November 2009
Twenty years after the Velvet Revolution, Victor Sebestyen recalls how the Czech regime fell to a hapless secret plot.
Lady Ashton... well, at least she's not Tony
Sunday, 22 November 2009
As Baroness Ashton of Upholland, the European Union's new High Representative for Foreign Affairs, this weekend surveys her grand suite of offices, with a special corner for her life-sized Dalek, she might still be wondering how on earth she got there.
I was Prince Albert of Monaco's private spook
Sunday, 22 November 2009
Ex-novelist who ran intelligence service for Monte Carlo's royal family relaunches legal action against his old boss
The world greets new EU President
Saturday, 21 November 2009
John Lichfield: Waves of polite puzzlement circled the globe yesterday as leaders adjusted to the news that the EU President would be a mild-mannered, competent manager rather than a charismatic new "face" for Europe.
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1 Italian stallions: The sex lives of Mussolini and Berlusconi
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3 Faith leaders call for calm as murdered priest is buried
4 Sex and cheese as Sarkozys meet The Simpsons
5 Royal's campaign wobbles on gaffes and dirty tricks
6 Dolce & Gabbana forced to pull 'sexist and violent' advertisement
7 Exclusive: The unseen photographs that throw new light on the First World War
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