Other standout matches include Ospreys v Leinster and Racing Metro v Clermont while the second round will kick off with Saracens entertaining Toulouse in the first ever Friday night rugby match at Wembley
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Airbus challenges Boeing: New A350 takes off on maiden flight from Toulouse
Friday 14 June 2013
More than half of the plane is made up of lightweight carbon-fibre
Jonny Wilkinson ready to answer Lions SOS should Warren Gatland come calling
Tuesday 21 May 2013
Former England fly-half is prepared to join British and Irish Lions squad should injury hit either Jonny Sexton or Owen Farrell
Jonny Wilkinson keeps a door open to late call-up to the British and Irish Lions
Monday 20 May 2013
Flawless display of kicking from England legend leads Toulon to maiden Heineken Cup
Saracens ready for 'big occasion' says Owen Farrell
Friday 05 April 2013
Saracens play Ulster in a Heineken Cup quarter-final clash at Twickenham this weekend
Six Nations: Scotland captain Kelly Brown hopes Paris victory will boost captaincy chances
Saturday 16 March 2013
Scotland captain Kelly Brown admits the country’s best Six Nations campaign in recent memory still might not be enough to see him hold on to the captaincy.
Import frenzy leaves Philippe Saint-André running low on true-bleus
Wednesday 20 February 2013
France has 250 foreign players in its top-flight which is doing little to help the national team
Six Nations: England's strength a product of the Premiership claims Alex Goode
Tuesday 19 February 2013
England take on France at Twickenham this weekend
B&B and Beyond: Côté Carmes, Toulouse, France
Sunday 17 February 2013
A restored 16th-century house brings up-cycled style to the heart of south-west France, as Laura Holt discovers
Saint-André slams 'crazy' fixture list as France lose three players
Sunday 27 January 2013
France will name their 23 players tomorrow for next Sunday's Six Nations Championship match against Italy shorn of three backs from the original longlist including Vincent Clerc, Les Bleus' second-highest all-time try scorer.
Newcastle target Moussa Sissoko suspended by club amid transfer feud
Wednesday 23 January 2013
Midfielder looks set to join during the current transfer window
Mapou Yanga-Mbiwa becomes lastest addition to Newcastle's French legion
Wednesday 23 January 2013
Defender completes £6.7m switch to St James' Park
Therapist is blamed for patient's crime
Thursday 20 December 2012
A French psychiatrist has been convicted of manslaughter after her patient murdered an elderly man.
Leicester pressure pays off in last-ditch escape
Sunday 16 December 2012
Benetton Treviso 13 Leicester Tigers 14
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