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Ethiopia's skeleton 'Lucy' is back home
09/05/2013 - International report

Ethiopia's skeleton 'Lucy' is back home

Last week, Ethiopia welcomed the return home of a 3.2 million year old skeleton nicknamed  Lucy from a tour of America.

12/04/2013 - France

Paris councillor wants street named after Margaret Thatcher

Paris could soon have a rue Margaret Thatcher if a right-wing city councillor gets his way.

12/04/2013 - France - US

French court allows Hopi mask auction to go ahead

A French court has given the go-ahead to an auction of masks that Hopi native Americans consider sacred objects, despite appeals from the US ambassador in France and actor

12/04/2013 - France - US

'Sacrilege' - Robert Redford joins opposition to French Hopi masks auction

US film star Robert Redford on Thursday slammed an auction of Hopi masks in Paris ahead of a court decision due Friday on whether the sale can go ahead.

10/04/2013 - Report: France

Native American Hopi go to court to stop Paris tribal art auction

A tribal people’s advocacy group has filed a court action in Paris to stop an auction of sacred ...

05/04/2013 - France

Concentration camp imnate's uniform withdrawn from Paris auction

Paris auctioneers have withdrawn a concentration camp inmate’s uniform from sale after protests by left-wing councillors.

04/04/2013 - Report: France

Native American Hopi want sacred masks saved from Paris auction

A Native American tribe, the Hopi, is asking for the return of ceremonial masks set to be sold at an auction in Paris next week.

26/03/2013 - France

'We need to talk' say organisers of France's first Festival of Conversation

In an age when so many of us communicate on social networks, by text or by email, a group of French people worried that the habit of conversation is dying, have organised a Festival of ...

Notre-Dame cathedral in Paris rings its new bells
25/03/2013 - On-the-spot France

Notre-Dame cathedral in Paris rings its new bells

With 14 million visitors last year, Paris’s Notre-Dame cathedral is France’s most frequented monument.

21/03/2013 - France - Mexico - Peru

Mexico, Peru, Guatemala demand Sotheby's stops Paris auction

Mexico has asked France to withdraw 130 Mexican art works, 51 of them pre-Colombian, from an auction at Sotheby’s Paris this weekend.

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