First, France’s political rivals poke fun at Socialist candidate François Hollande. Next, a new bout of sexual allegations spells more trouble for Dominique Strauss Kahn. Finally, France tells foreign students that unemployment is too high and they have to leave.
The headlines get worse every day for Nicolas Sarkozy - this morning a poll says 68% of French voters believe he cannot win the next election. The French press also looks at the case of Russian whistleblower Sergei Magnitsky, the psychology of power, and whether Zinedine Zidane could be the next coach of Les Bleus.
Former football world champion Zinedine Zidane is set to attend the inauguration ceremony of Grozny's stadium in Russia's war-torn republic of Chechnya next month, a local official reported Thursday.
Three French football internationals have accused Raymond Domenech, the former coach of Les Bleus, of leaking the infamous World Cup locker-room row to the press, French media say.
With just a few days to go before France’s first Euro 2012 qualifier against Belarus, 1998 World Cup hero Zinedine Zidane visited his former teammate Laurent Blanc, now in charge of Les Bleus.
Brigitte Bardot doesn’t mince her words! She has called Patrick Balkany “un gros plouc menteur” or “a big hillbilly liar”, the UMP Party stalwarth, suggested in his memoirs that he once had a love affair with the veteran French actress.
Zinedine Zidane 
