PARIS: A retired French schoolteacher went on trial Thursday on accusations that she attacked a Middle Eastern woman in a Paris shop because the woman wore a face-covering Muslim veil.
The defendant, 63-year-old retired English teacher Jeanne (...)
For a zoo, it s a quiet and lonely place. Among the few remaining residents of Paris main animal park are the giraffes - whose long necks make travel inconvenient - and a hippo who was permitted to stay put after she threw a temper tantrum in a (...)
Just in time for New Year s celebrations, a new decree from France: Let them dance til dawn.
Despite France s reputation for bon vivants sipping Champagne until the wee hours, aficionados have been complaining that nightlife, especially in Paris, (...)
PARIS: Sarkozy, Sarkozy, wherefore art thou being so coy?
Rumors swirled after a newspaper claimed that President Nicolas Sarkozy might already have married his sweetheart, model-singer Carla Bruni, in a small, secret ceremony at the Elysee (...)
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It was a perfect Paris moment: The rain cleared, the sky filled with blue, and I was flying across town on a bicycle, past the Louvre, along the River Seine, through a public garden and up a cobblestone market street.
As a (...)