Meet Carla Bruni’s fashion match

October 7th, 2009 LONDON - French First Lady Carla Bruni has confessed to being in a never-ending beauty contest with other First Ladies across the world. Bruni, 41, the wife of French President Nicolas Sarkozy, has now unveiled a new website to give the world a peek of her former glamorous supermodel days.

October 6th, 2009 LONDON - The launch of France's First Lady Carla Bruni's website did not go so well, as the site crashed within minutes of opening. Experts revealed that the site, carlabrunisarkozy.org, which had been set up to promote Bruni's foundation to help France's "most vulnerable citizens", was not able to cope with the huge number of people visiting it.

September 24th, 2009 NEW YORK - French first lady Carla Bruni-Sarkozy was the epitome of style and grace when she was recently spotted in the Big Apple wearing a black number. The ex-supermodel was dressed to the nines as she exited a New York City apartment building on Tuesday.

September 20th, 2009 LONDON - Bestselling author Justine Lévy has penned her memories about the time her husband left her for Carla Bruni, as part of her new book 'Bad Girl'. The daughter of French philosopher and intellectual, Bernard-Henri Lévy, recalled "the really bad time of my life" when her husband of four years Raphaël Enthoven eloped with Bruni.

September 6th, 2009 LONDON - Carla Bruni-Sarkozy is set to launch scholarships for youths from difficult backgrounds in France to help them achieve their dreams of making it to the fashion industry. The wife of the French President Nicolas Sarkozy plans to use the scholarship programme in the Parisian suburbs that were charred during one of the country's worst riots almost four years ago.

August 12th, 2009 LONDON - France's First Lady Carla Bruni was recently spotted going for a swim wearing a teeny tiny black bikini and a pair of flippers. Bruni, 41, whose sensational figure has been honed by regular sessions with personal trainer Julie Imperiali, was snapped with French president Nicolas Sarkozy in the South of France.

August 3rd, 2009 LONDON - French President Nicolas Sarkozy seems to have put the health scare behind, for he enjoyed a refreshing dip with wife Carla Bruni in the Mediterranean. The 54-year-old politician had sparked health fears a week ago, when he collapsed while he was out jogging.

July 20th, 2009 LONDON - French First Lady Carla Bruni's rendition of a Bob Dylan classic at Nelson Mandela's 91st birthday bash turned out to be a flop show, as music fans likened her voice to the sounds of a "dying cat". The supermodel-turned-singer crooned 'Blowin' In The Wind' at Radio City in New York on Saturday, as part of a star-studded concert to mark Nelson Mandela's 91st birthday.

July 8th, 2009 LONDON - Having played host to showgirls, a teenage model and a prostitute, Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's suitability to receive world's first ladies for G8 has come under question, especially after French first lady Carla Bruni announced she would not attend the official G8 events in Rome. The official party of First Ladies, including Michelle Obama and Sarah Brown, is expected to arrive today for a three-day visit to Rome and the earthquake-stricken city of L'Aquila, The Times reports.

May 31st, 2009 LONDON - Raphakl Enthoven, the ex-lover of Carla Bruni-Sarkozy and father of her seven-year-old son, Aurilien, has joined an informal "kitchen cabinet" of left-wing advisers around Nicolas Sarkozy, the French president. Enthoven, a philosophy professor, visits the Elysie Palace almost regularly and likes setting the world to rights in intimate gatherings with "Sarko" around the dinner table.

May 19th, 2009 LONDON - French President Nicolas Sarkozy has cancelled plans of buying a "love nest" in Paris, because wife Carla Bruni's ex-flame Mick Jagger has a penthouse in the same building, it has emerged. It was being reported that the 41-year-old supermodel was "very keen" on buying the 10-million pound flat in Paris, however, hubby Sarkozy was "uncomfortable" regarding the proximity to the Rolling Stones singer.

May 14th, 2009 LONDON - Mick Jagger may soon have a new neighbour in his luxurious Paris pad: ex-lover Carla Bruni along with Nicolas Sarkozy. It has been reported that the French President and wife are poised to buy a 3.5million pound "love nest" in Paris.

May 5th, 2009 LONDON - Thousands of Carla Bruni CDs will be given away for free in a French campaign funded by the country's taxpayers. The Ministry of Agriculture will send the album, along with wine and cheese vouchers, across the world to promote international food and drink sales.

April 29th, 2009 LONDON - French police were said to be looking for burglars who had broken into a Paris apartment and stolen hundreds of "highly intimate" pictures and video of Carla Bruni-Sarkozy. The photographs, taken during the ex-model's romance with philosopher Raphael Enthoven, had been entrusted with Enthoven's brother, the owner of the apartment, to keep them at bay from any possible embarrassment to the First Lady and her President hubby Nicolas Sarkozy, as per reports.

April 26th, 2009 LONDON - Life inside the Elysée Palace is so high on drama that it can make an excellent soap opera. And, the latest episode in the Sarkozy-saga involves Rachida Dati, the controversial Justice Minister, her baby and the fury of France's glamorous first lady Carla Bruni.