Sarkozy Faces Defeat

• Sarkozy faces defeat as France heads to polls

  France voted on Sunday in elections which could crown Francois Hollande as its first Socialist president.

• France votes as Sarkozy faces defeat after one term

  Tens of millions of French voters turned out Sunday for the first round of a presidential poll that is expected to see the left oust Nicolas Sarkozy after only one turbulent term in office. The left has not won a presidential election in a quarter of a century, but with France mired in low growth and rising joblessness, opinion polls predict Socia...