An armed man has taken four hostages in a store on the outskirts of the southern city of Toulouse in France.

LATEST: Three teenage girls and an 18-year-old woman have been detained in different parts of France on Tuesday as suspects in attack plots, the Paris prosecutor’s office has said.

A French TV journalist said today she was punched and roughed up, then sexually assaulted while covering protests in Egypt’s Tahrir Square.

TWO French journalists rejoined their families smiling and laughing after 18 months in captivity in Afghanistan at the hands of Taliban Islamists who said they freed the men in a prisoner-swap.

Juventus striker David Trezeguet remains top of Lyon's wish list this Christmas despite the Ligue 1 champions having failed in their initial bid to land the France international.