France’s military deliberately exposed soldiers to a nuclear test in the Sahara Desert to study how the atomic bomb would affect their bodies and minds, it has been reported.

THEY say the best place to hide a book is in a library.

At least 17 people were killed when a small plane plunged into the sea moments after taking off from the French Polynesian resort island of Moorea in the Pacific.

FERNANDO TORRES has moved a step nearer completing his move from Atletico Madrid to Liverpool by verbally agreeing personal terms while he is away on holiday.

Liverpool are believed to have settled personal terms with Spain striker Fernando Torres while Luis Garcia is heading back to his homeland.

Voters in France faced an historic choice today as they cast ballots in a referendum on the European Union’s first constitution.

Europe’s landmark new constitution faces a make-or-break referendum in France tomorrow, when a polarised nation decides whether to boost or block the next giant leap forward in a half-century of efforts to unite the continent.

The Food Safety Authority has advised consumers to disregard spurious health claims attributed to a new fruit juice being imported into Ireland.

Thor Heyerdahl, the Norwegian adventurer who accomplished what was thought impossible by crossing the Pacific ocean from Peru to Polynesia on a balsa log raft in 1947, has died in Italy aged 87.