The Tour de France rolls on Saturday, July 12, with Stage 8 offering a golden opportunity for sprinters to shine on a flat, fast route to Laval.

Hosts New Zealand thump France 43-17 to win the second Test in Wellington and clinch the series with a game to spare.

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He says small boats migrants will be returned to France, in exchange for asylum seekers who have not tried to enter the UK illegally.

France's public health authority said on Friday that more than 100 people had died from drowning between June 1 and July 2 this year, an increase of 58% over the same period last year, blaming it on unusually warm weather at the end of June.

During a rare news conference on Friday, the head of the French military, Thierry Burkhard, said Russia remains a “lasting, close” threat.

British Home Secretary Yvette Cooper said Friday she expected Brussels to back a new so-called "one-in, one-out," deal with France aimed at curbing the number of migrants crossing the English Channel in small boats.