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    Brigitte Trogneux She's 25 years older than her husband, new French president Emmanuel Macron, but school teacher Brigitte Macron has already caught the attention of style critics for her fashion-rule breaking outfits. After falling in love when Macron attended her literature and theatre classes while she taught at La Providence a Jesuit high school in Amiens the politician described their love as a love often clandestine, often hidden, misunderstood by many before imposing itself. On May 7, Macron defeated Marine Le Pen in the French presidential election with a comfortable 65.1% to Le Pen's 35.9%, and Mrs Macron became France's new First Lady, all set to move her colourful wardrobe into Élysée Palace. As the First Lady of the world's most stylish country, a lot of eyes a...

    On Sunday, the French public made their call. Emmanuel Macron was to be their President complete with his centrist politics and desire to stay in the EU. The 39-year-old is married to wife Brigitte Trogneux and has been since 2007. He is a former investment banker, has dipped in and out of politics as both a Minister and member of staff and will be the youngest President in French history. But the French people are missing something. Isn’t ANYBODY paying attention? Macron doesn’t have any kids. Sure, he has a couple of step-children running around but he doesn’t have any of his own. I hate to be the bearer of bad news and s--- on the European Union while it’s already in the gutter, but can someone tell me what kind of future France has when their leader doesn’t know what i...

    French president-elect Emmanuel Macron Ministers are drawing up plans to stop illegal immigrants from coming to Britain amid concerns that Emmanuel Macron could scrap UK border controls on French soil . Mr Macron, the newly-elected French President, vowed during his election campaign to renegotiate the Le Touquet agreement which enables British border officials to carry out checks in France. Theresa May yesterday appeared to concede that the agreement will have to be looked at again as she vowed to defend the border controls, arguing that they benefit France as much as the UK. The Telegraph understands that in the event the agreement is scrapped ferry companies will be made responsible for stopping illegal migrants from crossing the Channel. Those which fail to do so ...

    Dennis Rodman has opened up about his unlikely friend, North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un, saying he loves karaoke, TV theme tunes and playing table tennis. The former basketball player, 55, described Jong-un as friend for life and claimed he told him that he doesn’t hate America, and that he has no intention of using nuclear weapons. When he’s around his people, he’s just like anybody else, Rodman told Dujour. He jokes and loves playing basketball, table tennis, pool. They love American ’80s music. They do karaoke to it. He has this 13-piece girls band with violins. He gets a mic and they play the whole time. He loves the Doors and Jimi Hendrix. Oldies. When I first went, the live band only played two songs for four hours: the theme songs from Rocky and Dallas. Rodman said...

    In a shocking incident, a female candidate who appeared at a NEET centre in Kannur on Sunday claimed she had to remove her innerwear before sitting for the entrance test. Other women candidates too faced a harrowing experience due to a strict dress code in force. The anguished candidate told media persons after attempting the National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test (NEET)—conducted for admission to undergraduate medical courses in government and private medical colleges in the country – that she was asked by the examination centre’s officials to remove her innerwear. My daughter went inside the centre, only to return later and hand me her top innerwear,’ said her mother. Another candidate, who was wearing a pair of jeans, was asked to remove a pocket as well as metal button...

    Dennis Rodman has opened up about his unlikely friend, North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un, saying he loves karaoke, TV theme tunes and playing table tennis. The former basketball player, 55, described Jong-un as friend for life and claimed he told him that he doesn’t hate America, and that he has no intention of using nuclear weapons. When he’s around his people, he’s just like anybody else, Rodman told Dujour. He jokes and loves playing basketball, table tennis, pool. They love American ’80s music. They do karaoke to it. He has this 13-piece girls band with violins. He gets a mic and they play the whole time. He loves the Doors and Jimi Hendrix. Oldies. When I first went, the live band only played two songs for four hours: the theme songs from Rocky and Dallas. Rodman said...

    France has chosen a new President after a turbulent and scarring election in which the centrist moderate Emmanuel Macron comprehensively beat Marine Le Pen of the hard-right Front National. It is a result which will have widespread repercussions not just for France, but across Europe, including Britain as negotiations to leave the European Union begin. Ms Le Pen had boasted that France would follow the triumphant populist path of Brexit and the presidency of Donald Trump in the US. But her harsh and negative campaign based on opposition to the European Union, opposition to immigration and opposition to supposed elitism, while espousing aggressive nationalism, was emphatically rejected by the voters. Instead they chose, with around 65 per cent of valid votes cast, compared ...

    The French people casts their ballot at a polling station in France, on May 7, 2017, during the second round of the French presidential election. French voters went to the polls on Sunday to pick a new president, choosing between young centrist Emmanuel Macron and far-right leader Marine Le Pen in a watershed election for the country and Europe. Polling day follows an unprecedented campaign marked by scandal, repeated surprises and a last-minute hacking attack on Macron, a 39-year-old who has never held elected office. The run-off vote pits the pro-Europe, pro-business Macron against anti-immigration and anti-EU Le Pen, two radically different visions that underline a split in Western democracies. Le Pen, 48, has portrayed the ballot as a contest between the ‘globalists’ r...

    The campaign team of French presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron said on Friday night it had been the victim of a massive hacking attack after a trove of documents was released online. The apparent hack came on the final day of campaigning in the French presidential election, with Mr Macron, the centrist, facing Marine Le Pen, the far-Right candidate in tomorrow's run-off. Immediate suspicion fell on Russia, which has been accused of meddling in the US election to help get Donald Trump elected in November. Campaign officials stated authentic documents had been mixed on social media with fake ones to sow doubt and misinformation and that it was a clear attempt to undermine Mr Macron. Democracy at risk The En Marche! Movement has been the victim of a massive and co-ordinat...

    A law in France banning the use of unhealthily thin fashion models has come into effect, reports BBC. Models will need to provide a doctor’s certificate attesting to their overall physical health, with special regard to their body mass index (BMI)— a measure of weight in relation to height. The health ministry says the aim is to fight eating disorders and inaccessible ideals of beauty. Digitally altered photos will also have to be labelled from 1 October. Images where a model’s appearance has been manipulated will need to be marked photographie retouchée (English: retouched photograph). A previous version of the bill had suggested a minimum BMI for models, prompting protests from modelling agencies in France. But the final version, backed by MPs 2015, allows doctors to dec...