There was a home winner on the eighth stage of the Tour de France while Vincenzo Nibali remains in the yellow jersey after a thrilling battle with Alberto Contador.

Italy's Vincenzo Nibali launched a late attack to win stage two of the Tour de France in Sheffield today and claim the race leader's yellow jersey.

Arlene Harris meets three people who are supplementing their daytime incomes by embarking on very different second careers at night.

Ten suspected terrorists, including a man prosecutors claim is a lieutenant of Osama bin Laden, stand trial in Paris today for a foiled plot to bomb the famed Christmas market in the eastern French city of Strasbourg on New Year’s Eve 2000.