THE first high-level talks between Russia and Georgia since their war broke down yesterday, but international sponsors said the negotiations had only hit a procedural snag and would resume next month.

Filming of a John Travolta movie partly set in one of Paris’s toughest estates was suspended after 10 cars set to be used in the film were torched, the production company said today.

Not the place you'd want to settle down in: a futuristic Paris ghetto, walled off by the authorities and left in the hands of local hoods.