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The medical charity Global Fund is denying allegations it awarded sizeable contracts without tender to a friend of French First Lady Carla Bruni (pictured), who is a Global Fund ambassador. The charges appeared in French weekly Marianne.

Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, the wife of French President Nicolas Sarkozy, has given birth to a girl, Giulia, at a maternity clinic in Paris. The child is the French first couple's first baby since their marriage in 2008.

French President Nicolas Sarkozy's father appears to have confirmed the pregnancy rumours surrounding first lady Carla Bruni-Sarkozy. Pal Sarkozy was quoted by German daily Bild as saying, “I’m sure it will be a girl and as beautiful as Carla.”

French President Nicolas Sarkozy is on a four-day trip to India seeking to secure French firms billions of euros in trade and defence deals and to enhance nuclear power cooperation between the two nations.

French President Nicolas Sarkozy’s upcoming four-day visit to India will be dominated by defence, trade and civilian nuclear power issues. But there’s also a private visit to the iconic Taj Mahal – this time with Carla Bruni Sarkozy.

An unauthorised biography of France's first lady, Carla Bruni, calls her a "female Don Juan" and claims her chic, modest persona is the result of an image makeover. The book also alleges that Bruni, 43, has had plastic surgery, a charge she denies.

Iran's foreign ministry on Tuesday criticised an Iranian hardline media outlet for calling French first lady Carla Bruni a "prostitute" after she expressed support for an Iranian woman sentenced to death by stoning.

Iran's hardline newspaper Kayhan has called France's first lady Carla Bruni a "prostitute," after Nicolas Sarkozy's third wife signed a petition calling for the release of an Iranian woman sentenced to death by stoning.

France's first lady Carla Bruni-Sarkozy has begun filming alongside Hollywood star Owen Wilson in director Woody Allen's latest movie "Midnight in Paris", a romantic comedy set in the City of Light.

France's presidential couple visited the Great Wall on Thursday on the second day of a state visit to China designed to boost ties between the two countries after recent spats over Tibet.