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- Boonen Banned From Tour De France
Jun 21, 2008
Belgium's former world cycling champion, Tom Boonen, has been forced out of this year's Tour de France The rider was barred after it was revealed...
Category: Sports
- France Faces Fine Over Lack of Hamster Love
Jun 20, 2008
Weird but true, France is being threatened with a €17 million penalty if it doesn't clean up its act and come up with a strategy to save the...
Category: World Affairs
- A Bore Draw When Two Times Zero Equals One
Jun 18, 2008
The French have rather an appropriate expression for a football game that ends in a draw - "match nul" And that just about sums up the general...
Category: Sports
- Ferrari to Return as PPDA is Given the Boot
Jun 18, 2008
One of France's top news anchors, Patrick Poivre d'Arvor, will bid farewell to viewers this summer and be replaced by the darling of the French...
Category: World Affairs
- Carla Bruni-Sarkozy Speaks Out
Jun 12, 2008
It's just what France (and the world) has been waiting for - the real story behind the marriage of the French president, Nicolas Sarkozy, and his...
Category: Politics
- Dati Does U-Turn on Virginity Annulment Marriage
Jun 11, 2008
The French justice minister, Rachida Dati, has once again shown that she has a less than a firm grasp of her job by doing a complete volte face in...
Category: Politics
- Lyon - There's No "s" In French
Jun 11, 2008
It's about 450kms from Paris to Lyon (or Lyons if your prefer in English) but forget about the four-and-a-half hour drive and instead save money,...
Category: Travel
- Martine Aubry - The Lady In Waiting.
Jun 10, 2008
She might have been absent from national politics for the past eight years, but now a one-time leading light of the Socialist party, Martine Aubry,...
Category: World Affairs
- France's "Virgin Obsessed" Serial Killer Gets Life
Jun 6, 2008
After a high profile trial lasting two months, a court in northeastern France on Wednesday found Michel Fourniret, the country's most notorious...
Category: World Affairs
- A Nouvel Skyscraper For Paris
Jun 5, 2008
The French capital is to get just what it needs to set it apart from the rest of the globe's major cities - a new 300-metre skyscraper set to...
Category: World Affairs
- A Taxing Day As Sarkozy Goes Walkabout Among The Fruit And Veg
Jun 4, 2008
What a start to the day for the French president, Nicolas Sarkozy He was up and about before dawned cracked rubbing shoulders and pressing flesh...
Category: World Affairs
- French Triumph At Cannes But Flop At Eurovision
Jun 3, 2008
For the first time in 21 years a French film has scooped top honours for best movie at the Cannes film festival "Entre les murs" (The Class)...
Category: Arts and Entertainment
- Sarkozy Outs Himself As Céline Dion Fan
Jun 2, 2008
Thankfully nobody broke into song but emotions were running high on Thursday as the French president, Nicolas Sarkozy, bestowed this country's...
Category: Arts and Entertainment
- The First Lady Sings
May 31, 2008
For some it will be a date to note in their diaries and one on which they will undoubtedly rush out in anticipation to the record stores For others...
Category: World Affairs
- The Knives Are Out
May 31, 2008
The big guns within the Socialist party here in France are warming up for battle ahead of an election to choose a new leader even though that's...
Category: World Affairs
- A Foodie In St Barth - Eden Rock
May 30, 2008
Eating out is never exactly a chore in mainland France, and the visitor is in for just as much of a culinary delight on the French Caribbean island...
Category: Travel
- A Foodie In St Barth - K'fé Massaï
May 30, 2008
Eating out is never exactly a chore in mainland France, and the visitor is in for just as much of a culinary delight on the French Caribbean island...
Category: Travel
- A Foodie In St Barth - La Mandala
May 30, 2008
Eating out is never exactly a chore in mainland France, and the visitor is in for just as much of a culinary delight on the French Caribbean island...
Category: Travel
- A Foodie In St Barth - Le Gaïac
May 30, 2008
Eating out is never exactly a chore in mainland France, and the visitor is in for just as much of a culinary delight on the French Caribbean island...
Category: Travel
- The Holiday That Was, Then Wasn't And Now Is
May 22, 2008
This is the rather muddled tale of the public holiday that disappeared from the French calendar four years ago when it became a quasi-working day...
Category: World Affairs
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