FORGET Raphael Ibanez, Frederic Michalak and even Sebastien Chabal. Many feel Thierry Dusautoir could be the new face of French rugby.

SOCIALIST French presidential candidate Segolene Royal will push for a law to allow euthanasia under certain conditions if she is elected this spring, her party said yesterday.

Two passenger trains collided in south-western France after one of the trains derailed when it hit a crane that had fallen on to the tracks from a nearby construction site, police said.