Bradley Wiggins is already seeking further glory after yesterday celebrating the greatest achievement of his career as the first British winner of the Tour de France.

His smug look took up most of the page; was he smiling thinking this was too easy?

Tour de France leader Bradley Wiggins insisted the race for the yellow jersey is far from over despite taking a commanding lead with victory on stage nine.

Ireland’s two riders in the Tour de France, Nicolas Roche (Ag2r La Mondiale) and Dan Martin (Garmin-SHARP) enjoyed a solid weekend with Roche moving inside the top 10 overall while Martin displayed some good form on Saturday’s leg-breaking climb to the finish at La Planche des Belles Filles to finish 17th.

Bradley Wiggins took possession of the Tour de France race leader's yellow jersey after a dominant performance from Team Sky today, capped by a stage seven success for fellow Briton Chris Froome.

FRENCH police yesterday freed five nursery school pupils and their teacher taken hostage by a suicidal sword-wielding teenager.

A sword-wielding teenager who took children in a French nursery hostage was arrested today and all the youngsters freed unharmed.

A sword-wielding teenager took 20 small children and their teacher hostage at a French nursery today.

Ireland’s Nicolas Roche has finished runner-up in the 14th stage of the Tour de France, 16 seconds behind Katusha’s Sergei Ivanov, with Hayden Roulston in third.

A female spectator was killed today after she was struck by a motorcycle as she watched the 14th stage of the Tour de France.

Seven suspected Islamic militants accused of training to fight in Iraq have been arrested in France.

A small plane exploded soon after takeoff from the eastern French city of Besancon early today, killing the two pilots and two surgeons who had been heading for a liver removal operation.

Margaret Kelly, the Irish-born founder of Paris’ famed Bluebell Girls dance troupe, has died at her home in the French capital aged 94.

Lance Armstrong won his fifth stage of the 91st Tour de France today to all but seal his sixth successive victory and a pre-eminent place in the history of cycling’s greatest event.