Forget the nice hug and cup of tea — females want a sexy male, says Suzanne Harrington, but not a Himbo — smart, funny guys are more likely to hit the spot.

MAURA DERRANE is in good company. At 43, the RTÉ presenter is pregnant with her first child.

AN illicit love affair is so quintessentially French that revelations of President François Hollande’s clandestine meetings with Julie Gayet have been greeted by the French with a shrug.

Francois Hollande planned to announce to the world’s press last Tuesday that he and Valerie Trierweiler had officially split, but his plans were scrapped after his partner was hospitalised, according to reports.

Embattled French President Francois Hollande is to face the media today for the first time since news of his alleged affair with a actress became public.

French President François Hollande has threatened legal action over a magazine report saying he is having a secret affair with an actress, the latest breach in the French media’s practice of turning a blind eye to presidential love affairs.

French President Francois Hollande has threatened legal action over a magazine report saying he is having a secret affair with an actress, the latest breach in the French media’s practice of turning a blind eye to presidential love affairs.

Nicolas Sarkozy’s hopes of a comeback to the frontline of French politics were given a major boost when corruption charges against the former president were dropped.

Louis Walsh had to delay filming his 'X Factor' Judges Houses round due to noise coming from Nicolas Sarkozy's villa.

'The Jonathan Ross Show' has been recommissioned for two additional series in 2014.

Irish men have been voted among the sexiest nationalities in the world thanks to Hollywood heartthrob Colin Farrell.

France’s first lady Valerie Trierweiler would make her life a lot easier if she stopped living out of wedlock and became a “legitimate” wife: that’s the simple advice from her predecessor Carla Bruni.

A feud involving the French president’s live-in girlfriend, his former partner and his eldest son may have tarnished the new leader’s carefully cultivated image as Mr Normal – credited with helping him win the spring election among a populace weary of his flashy predecessor, Nicolas Sarkozy.

French President Nicolas Sarkozy insisted yesterday that he will not be the candidate of a small elite against the people, in the first major rally of his re-election bid.

A French mayor’s plan to erect a statue of President Nicolas Sarkozy’s former supermodel wife Carla Bruni in worker’s attire has angered the opposition and embarrassed the first lady.

FRENCH First Lady Carla Bruni-Sarkozy last night gave birth to a daughter — her first child with French President Nicolas Sarkozy.

French President Nicolas Sarkozy and his wife Carla Bruni have welcomed a baby girl into their family.

There are reports that France's First Lady Carla Bruni could be in labour.

FRANCE’S first lady Carla Bruni is expected to give birth any day soon, keeping French media on tenterhooks before an event that could offer President Nicolas Sarkozy a welcome respite from non-stop political headwinds.

FOR all that Bill Clinton might be defined by his marital transgressions, on the political stage he is far from alone: from earliest times, the dark arts have abounded with philanderers.

Workers at a closure-threatened French nappy factory have sent a box of nappies to first lady Carla Bruni in a plea to help them save their jobs.

OWEN WILSON looks very skinny, almost frail when he walks through the corridor of Renaissance hotel in Hollywood, surrounded by his retinue of publicists and handlers.

WHAT is it about older men that makes them irresistible — their wrinkles, their baldness, their slack muscle tone?

One half of Hollywood’s hottest couple – Angelina Jolie – is in Cannes today promoting her new movie.

Hollywood veteran Woody Allen kickstarts the Cannes Film Festival tonight with a screening of his new film, 'Midnight in Paris'.

IT may be a case of no Cannes do.

OSCAR-WINNER Sean Penn has donned red lipstick, heavy black eye make-up and a wig to play an ageing Goth rocker in his new movie.

Ellen Page has joined Woody Allen's next directorial project set in Rome.

AMERICA’S first lady Michelle Obama has been named the world’s most powerful woman.

THE co-author of a new book about French first lady Carla Bruni-Sarkozy has defended his sources amid a media buzz over a passage that cites Michelle Obama as calling life in the White House “hell”.

FRENCH President Nicolas Sarkozy’s marriage to Carla Bruni, an Italian-born heiress and ex-supermodel long considered among the world’s most desirable women, was touted as a coup for the French leader.

AN Iranian newspaper said yesterday that Carla Bruni, the wife of France’s president, deserved to die after she expressed solidarity with a woman sentenced to be stoned for adultery.

IRAN’S hardline media have called French first lady Carla Bruni a “prostitute” after she expressed strong support for an Iranian woman facing death by stoning for adultery.

Woody Allen was impressed by the “professional” performance of France’s first lady, Carla Bruni, on the set of his film 'Midnight in Paris', it was reported today.

FRANCE’S first lady is making her debut as an actress, filming this week in Woody Allen’s Midnight in Paris.

France's first lady is making her debut as an actress, filming this week in Woody Allen's "Midnight in Paris".

The glamour couple of Europe will return to the UK today hoping they will not endure a difficult time from the British media.

Woody Allen has revealed that his latest movie will be a romantic comedy set in Paris.

FRANCE’S ex-justice minister Rachida Dati has lost her chauffeur-driven limousine and bodyguards after annoying President Nicolas Sarkozy with a recent TV appearance, reports said yesterday.

FIRST names only, floods of compliments and a shared weakness for hot dogs: Barack Obama and Nicolas Sarkozy put on an elaborate show this week to quash talk of bad chemistry between the leaders of France and the United States.

FRENCH President Nicolas Sarkozy yesterday warned the US that it cannot “run the world alone” as he warmed up for a summit last night with Barack Obama by echoing Franco-American spats of the past.

NICOLAS Sarkozy’s father and his wife aren’t thrilled about the prospect of the French president running for a second term in 2012.

French President Nicolas Sarkozy delivered a thinly-veiled swipe at David Cameron as he insisted Britain must remain “bang in the middle” of Europe.