Carla Bruni-Sarkozy

Fashion has a new first lady. If the black-and-red dress Michelle Obama wore for her husband's victory speech Tuesday is any indication, she is poised to be her own kind of style icon in the White House. The straight-from-the-spring-runway dress, which...

Sarah Palin unwittingly took a prank call Saturday from a Canadian comedian posing as French President Nicolas Sarkozy and telling her she would make a good president someday. "Maybe in eight years," replies a laughing Palin. The Republican vice...

Nicknamed "commander-in-sheath," Michelle Obama made Vanity Fair's International Best Dressed List for the second year in a row, commended for looking elegant in everything from the $900 purple sheath by Chicago designer Maria Pinto, worn in St. Paul,...

With all the fuss over what Michelle Obama wore in Europe over the past several days, it was this weekend's fashion faceoff with French first lady Carla Bruni-Sarkozy in France that everyone awaited. The winner? Obama, by a thread. Here, a review of the...

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by Mark Silva If President Barack Obama is looking for respect at the G-20 summit in London this week - and most Americans say they expect he'll get it -- the French president may help him along with a threatened......

by Mark Silva Okay, we've had the better part of a week now to weigh in on whether Michelle Obama has risen to the expectations of the Michelle O. versus Jackie O. debate. Has the first lady of the United......

by Mark Silva All the focus on President Barack Obama in his travels across Europe - and on the sideshows of the Michelle Obama-Queen Elizabeth II touch and Michelle Obama-Carla Bruni 'fashion smackdown' - has tended to overshadow the work......

by Mark Silva The bridge to somewhere: As the leaders of Europe prepare to assemble with President Barack Obama at a NATO summit on Saturday, they will mark the meeting with a little ceremony on the Rhine River. Obama will......

by Mark Silva "The first ladies fashion smackdown.'' That's what MSNBC was calling the public appearance of Michelle Obama, first lady of the United States, and Carla Bruni, first lady of France, today in Strasbourg, France. They both wore bows.......

by Christi Parsons and Mark Silva STRASBOURG, France -- President Barack Obama carried his "town hall'' brand of public dialog to a European stage today, standing before an etimated audience of 4,000 in Strasbourg, France, on the eve of a......

by Henry Chu and Christi Parsons STRASBOURG, France -- The leaders of NATO overcame the objections of the alliance's only Muslim member nation and this afternoon named the prime minister of Denmark as its new secretary general-designate. Turkey had...