Paris - French Defence Minister Herve Morin said on Tuesday the collision of French and British nuclear submarines earlier this month in the Atlantic Ocean was a "stroke of circumstance" and not a matter of bilateral gamesmanship.

"There is no (hidden) story in this affair. The British do not hunt French submarines, and French submarines do not hunt British submarines," Morin told Canal Plus television.

Antibes, France  - It comes as no surprise that artists loved the view of the deep blue sea on the right, the proud old town walls of Antibes on the left and the hazy outline of the mountains on the horizon.

Claude Monet painted this scene in 1888, Henri Edmond Cross captured the same image 20 years later and now visitors can decide whether he captured the atmosphere as the painting is being exhibited as a poster on that very spot.

It is only one of 50 works of art on show as part of the Chemin des Peintre, The Painters' Way, which holidaymakers can follow in the Cote d'Azur.

The series of posters stretches along the coast from Menton to Cannes and extends inland to Grasse, Mougins and Saint-Paul-de-Vence.

London/Paris - British and French nuclear-powered submarines, carrying a total of more than 240 crew members, collided in the Atlantic early this month, the British daily The Sun reported on Monday.

According to the report, the British vessel HMS Vanguard and the French U-boat Triomphant were both submerged at the time and on separate missions in the mid-Atlantic at the time of the incident, on February 3 or 4.

The daily cited a senior British Navy source as saying that, while it was unlikely that the collision could have sparked a nuclear explosion, the potential consequences were "unthinkable."

Paris - Mexican-born actress Salma Hayek has married French businessman Francois-Henri Pinault, the online edition of the weekly Le Point reported on Monday.

According to the report, the 42-year old Hayek, who is a naturalized US citizen, and Pinault, 46, were married on Saturday in the city hall of the Sixth Arrondissement in central Paris.

The news, if confirmed, comes as a something as a surprise, because the star of the films Frida and Bandidas and Pinault had announced the end of their engagement in July of last year.

London, Feb 16: British and French nuclear submarines armed with ballistic missiles threatened to cause a disaster after colliding in the Atlantic, it emerged last night.

The Britsh Royal Navy's HMS Vanguard and the French Navy's Le Triomphant are both nuclear powered and were carrying nuke missiles when the collision took place on February 3-4.

The crash is believed to have occurred after state-of-the-art technology fitted in both vessels, which is designed to detect other submarines, apparently failed completely

Val d'Isere, France  - Maria Riesch got gold at last at a big event when she won the slalom world title on Saturday from sixth place after the first run.

The German Riesch took the gold with the fastest second run in a combined total 1 minute 51.80 seconds. Defending champion Sarka Zahrobska took silver in 1:52.57 minutes and Tanja Poutiainen of Finland was third in 1:52.89 minutes.

Riesch also won because the top three from the first run met disaster.