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13/05/2013 - France

Wolf caught on 'speed camera' in France

An extraordinary picture of a wolf, taken by an automatic camera during the night, is important evidence for the people of Cellier-du-Luc in the Ardèche region in southeastern France, who ...

26/04/2013 - Report: France

Street artists transform abandoned Paris nightclub ... for a while

Les Bains Douches was once a famous Paris nightclub and concert hall. At the beginning of 2013 a group of artists transformed the site into a creative space.

25/04/2013 - France - Australia

Australia's Bob Carr remembers First World War dead in northern France

Thousands of Australians made a pilgrimage to the killing fields of World War I on Thursday to honour those who lost their lives on the Western Front.

24/04/2013 - France - world cinema

Cannes Festival jury announced

The Cannes Festival jury panel for 2013 has just been announced, and it is wide-ranging and gender-balanced.

23/04/2013 - Report: France

Paris tour shows off the capital's street art

When visitors to Paris are on their way to famous museums, they pass thousands of works of graffiti and street art over walls, on buildings and inside trains.

Cannes Film festival general delegate Thierry Fremaux (L) and its director Gilles Jacob attend a news conference to announce the competing films at the 66th Cannes Film Festival in Paris April 18, 2013.
18/04/2013 - France - world cinema

Cannes film festival 2013 promises joy and surprises

With only a few weeks to go before the opening of the Cannes Film Festival, the event’s director Thierry Frémaux promised a festival of joy and some surprises when announcing the ...

17/04/2013 - France - United Kingdom

Brake failure blamed for Alps crash that killed and injured Britons

Tuseday's coach crash that killed the driver and seriously injured three British nationals in the French Alps was probably due to failed brakes, the head of the inquiry into the accident said ...

15/04/2013 - France

Black and Arab workers banned from meeting Israeli president's train in Paris, union

France’s state-owned rail company, the SNCF, banned black and north African-origin employees from working near Israeli President Shimon Peres when he arrived at Paris’s Gare du Nord ...

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.

10/04/2013 - France - China

Franco-Chinese artist Zao Wou-Ki dies, aged 93

Franco-Chinese abstract painter Zao Wou-Ki has died aged 93. His death has intensified a legal battle between his wife and son.

08/04/2013 - France

Top chefs worried by slide in France's restaurant reputation launch new stamp of quality

Two top French chefs, worried that France’s reputation for excellent restaurants is declining, on Monday launched a new award for establishments which prepare their own food and give diners ...

31/03/2013 - France

Eiffel Tower evacuated over bomb threat

The Eiffel Tower was evacuated on Saturday evening because of a bomb hoax.

30/03/2013 - France

Man cuts off elephant's tusk with chainsaw in Paris museum

Paris police have arrested a man for breaking into a museum and cutting off an elephant’s tusk with a chainsaw on Friday night.

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 ...

22/03/2013 - France

British man found frozen to death in French Alps

A 26-year-old Scot has been found frozen to death in a stream in the south-eastern French ski resort of La Plagne, local officials said Friday.

07/03/2013 - France - Saudi Arabia

Saudi princess's French property to be seized over debts for cars, cleaning, chocolate

A French court has ordered the property of a Saudi princess to be seized to pay off millions of euros-worth of unpaid bills for goods and services that included luxury hire-cars, chauffeurs, ...

28/02/2013 - France - US

Spielberg to head 2013 Cannes Film Festival jury

Steven Spielberg is to head the jury at this year’s Cannes film festival, the organisers announced on Thursday.

20/02/2013 - France

France launches low-cost high-speed train

France’s rail company has launched a low-cost, high-speed train service, with starting prices of 10 euros to travel from the Paris region to the south of France.

18/02/2013 - France

Art exhibitions in Paris, spring-summer 2013

After winter blockbusters – Hopper at over 780,000 visitors, Dali still going – Paris’s museums have calmed down a bit in the new year.

10/02/2013 - France

Some Paris flights cancelled as France on snow alert

Flights in and out of Paris’s main airports were reduced by up to 30 per cent on Sunday as much of France was on snow alert.

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