After Miss France was crowned recently if was brought out that a magazine had printed some suggestive pictures from her.

Makes you want to go and make sure all your helth and car insurance is up to date and current. Photo coverage shows a Renault in a serious accident, hitting a bus from behind.

The browser that helped kick-start the commercial web is to cease development because of lack of users.

France is poised to extend its smoking ban to bars, cafes, restaurants and discos, but the measure will not be enforced fully until 2 January.

Sony has said it will no longer produce a flat-screen TV technology once seen as a rival to LCD and plasma displays.

French actress Juliette Binoche, who is working on a new film with celebrated Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami, is visiting Iran in order to deepen her knowledge of the country. They are pictured here having the traditional Iranian dish "Dizi"

Russia's judo-loving President, Vladimir Putin, has recorded an instructional DVD along with Japanese Olympic champion Yasuhiro Yamashita.

Microsoft chairman Bill Gates has bought a 3% stake in Mexican brewer Femsa, the firm behind Sol lager.

A surgeon who allegedly took a photo of a patient's penis during an operation at a US hospital is no longer working there, it has been announced.

Apple has settled a legal row with tip site Think Secret that will see the website shut down.

The US faces $21m (£10.6m) in annual trade sanctions as a result of its online betting ban, the World Trade Organization has ruled.

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has said Central American and Caribbean states could pay for oil with services or products like bananas and sugar

The European Union has called on Russia to reconsider its order to shut down two British Council offices.