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Top Stories:  | Icy weekend for Christmas travel
 Friday, December 18, 2009
TRAFFIC conditions across France will be difficult this weekend as the Christmas getaway coincides with icy weather.
Road monitor Bison Futé has issued an "orange" warning for today and Saturday, adv... (read more...) |  Cafes ignoring smoking ban
Friday, December 18, 2009
BARS and restaurants are continuing to flout the ban on smoking in public places, an anti-smoking group has claimed.
Droit des Non-Fumeurs has submitted a report to the Health Ministry to coincide wi... (read more...) |  €3k fine for man sleeping under TGV
Friday, December 18, 2009
A DRUNK music festival-goer who survived a TGV running over the top of him as he slept has been ordered to pay the SNCF €3,000.
The 19-year-old was returning from a concert in Saint-Nolff in the Morb... (read more...) |  Snow disruption for 50 departments
Thursday, December 17, 2009
ABOUT 50 departments across the north and west of France are preparing for up to two inches of snow today.
Météo France has given out an "orange" weather alert - its second highest level - and is w... (read more...) |  Orly and Eurostar Christmas strikes
Thursday, December 17, 2009
CHRISTMAS flights out of Orly airport in Paris and Eurostar services could be disrupted in the coming days due to a strike.
Alysia Sûreté, the private contractor responsible for checking passengers' ... (read more...) | | | | | |
Barclays, Credit Agricole, Lloyds led the banks lower with falls ranging from 3% to 7%. Big News Network.com Fri, 18 Dec 2009 19:04:49 -0500Paris, Dec 19 (IANS) France has launched a military satellite from the Kourou launch site in French Guiana. IANS Fri, 18 Dec 2009 15:10:01 -0500London, Dec. 18 : Chelsea manager Carlo Ancelotti is eying a 25-million-pound swoop on German midfielder Bastian Schweinsteiger, and to sign the pricey player he has even given up on France winger Franck Ribery. ANI Fri, 18 Dec 2009 07:10:06 -0500London, Dec. 18 : French football legend Zinedine Zidane has been chosen as the footballer of the decade by voters on Foxsports.com. ANI Fri, 18 Dec 2009 06:30:08 -0500London, Dec 18 : France's First Lady Carla Bruni is said to have been described by a group of schoolchildren as having "false teeth" and being "too tall". ANI Fri, 18 Dec 2009 03:10:08 -0500London, Dec 18 (IANS) With reports that wife Elin Nordegren might leave him and move to her native Sweden with their children, golfer Tiger Woods is planning to move to France in search for privacy and to get away from the constant media attention, says aceshowbiz.com... IANS Fri, 18 Dec 2009 02:30:03 -0500PARIS: New St Etienne coach Christophe Galtier has warned that his side will be looking for a confidence booster to lift their sagging campaign against Marseille today. Alain Perrin's former assista... New Straits Times Fri, 18 Dec 2009 21:17:33 -0500Worcester and Newcastle both suffered body blows in their quest to qualify for the quarter-finals of the Amlin Challenge Cup on Friday. Mike Ruddock's Worcester team reached the semi-finals of last... Planet Rugby Fri, 18 Dec 2009 21:17:14 -0500The Dragons' Heineken Cup clash with Biarritz was postponed until Saturday as a result of the freezing weather hitting the UK. A partially frozen pitch at Rodney Parade left referee Alain Rolland w... Planet Rugby Fri, 18 Dec 2009 21:17:13 -0500France's first choice scrum-half Julien Dupuy has been ruled out of the Six Nations Championship after receiving a six-month ban for eye-gouging. An independent disciplinary hearing in Dublin ruled... Planet Rugby Fri, 18 Dec 2009 21:17:12 -0500RUADHÁN Mac CORMAIC in Paris FORMER FRENCH president Jacques Chirac has been placed under formal investigation over allegations that he put seven political allies on the payroll of Paris city hal... Irish Times Fri, 18 Dec 2009 21:13:18 -0500Traditionalists in Quebec fear spelling reforms to make the French language more logical could prevent people from learning its true complexities. "They fear that it is going to be something... National Post Fri, 18 Dec 2009 20:55:18 -0500The entrance to the headquarters of EADS, the company that owns Airbus, taken Dec. 12, 2006. EADS executives and shareholders were cleared today of insider trading. CBS News Fri, 18 Dec 2009 20:43:11 -0500PARIS: A cliche recipe for success is to aim for the stars. France’s luxury hotels say they need to reach for just one more. The world’s largest tourism destination has introduced a five-star c... Times of India Fri, 18 Dec 2009 20:40:55 -0500(9/24/2009) A Paris court ruled Friday that Google Inc.'s expansion into digital books breaks France's copyright laws, and a judge slapped the Internet search leader with a ?10,000-a-day fine u... CBS 5 Fri, 18 Dec 2009 20:39:43 -0500Associated Press PARIS: A judge filed preliminary charges against former President Jacques Chirac on Friday over allegations that Paris City Hall paid for jobs in his political party when he was mayor... Arab News Fri, 18 Dec 2009 19:44:09 -0500FILE - In this May 30, 2007 file photo, a Google sign inside Google headquarters is seen in Mountain View, Calif. A Paris court has convicted Google Inc. Friday, Dec. 18, 2009, in a copyright infringe... Seattle Post-Intelligencer Fri, 18 Dec 2009 18:43:40 -0500C OPENHAGEN, Dec 18, 2009 (AFP) - French President Nicolas Sarkozy saidFriday that Germany would host a new conference on climate change in six months in Bonn to follow up the work of the Copenhagen s... The Tocqueville Connection Fri, 18 Dec 2009 18:20:53 -0500A European Ariane rocket launched a French spy satellite on Friday from French Guiana, space officials said. The Ariane-5 rocket blasted off at 1.26 p.m. (1626 GMT) from the European Space Agency's la... World Bulletin Fri, 18 Dec 2009 17:34:10 -0500Former French president Jacques Chirac has been placed under formal investigation for misuse of public funds while he was mayor of Paris. There are now two judicial cases hanging over Mr Chirac. Bot... ABC Australia Fri, 18 Dec 2009 17:10:19 -0500Obama met on Friday evening with British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt, who is the current holder of the European Union preside... The Tocqueville Connection Fri, 18 Dec 2009 16:38:44 -0500France’s former president, Jacques Chirac was placed under official examination in a corruption probe today, just two months after he was ordered to stand trial in a separate graft case. Chirac’s ... Daily Nation Fri, 18 Dec 2009 15:27:40 -0500The Pompidou Centre reopened on Thursday after employees voted to end the strike that had shuttered the popular Parisian modern art venue since late November. Pompidou staff opened the museum's doors... CBC News Fri, 18 Dec 2009 15:08:33 -0500The entrance to the headquarters of EADS, the company that owns Airbus, taken Dec. 12, 2006. EADS executives and shareholders were cleared today of insider trading. CBS News Fri, 18 Dec 2009 14:54:11 -0500White vs. White?: Karim Benzema's return to the Stade de Gerland has pleased Olympique Lyon president Jean-Michel Aulas, when Real Madrid visit the Ligue 1 giants on 16 February in the first leg of th... soccerway Fri, 18 Dec 2009 14:46:59 -0500Tonight's Heineken Cup clash between Newport Gwent Dragons and Biarritz has been postponed. A partially frozen pitch at Rodney Parade left referee Alain Rolland with little alternative but to call of... RTE Fri, 18 Dec 2009 14:04:43 -0500Lindsey Vonn of the United States, center, winner of an alpine ski, Women's World Cup Super Combined, celebrates with second-placed Maria Riesch, of Germany, left, and third-placed Elisabeth Goergl, o... Salt Lake Tribune Fri, 18 Dec 2009 13:44:48 -0500Air Malta’s strategic decision to increase its seat capacity on the French routes by 17 percent to almost 200,000 seats over the period April – October 2009 has paid dividends for Malta’s Touris... MaltaMedia Fri, 18 Dec 2009 13:30:23 -0500Dec. 18, 2009 MONTREAL, Que. - Thallion Pharmaceuticals Inc. said Friday it has signed a partnership letter of intent with France's LFB Biotechnologies to development Shigamabs, a treatment of Shiga t... C News Fri, 18 Dec 2009 13:26:11 -0500Ros-Lehtinen's resolution underlines that the sale, estimated at 600-750million dollars, would be the first time a NATO nation has provided suchadvanced technology to Russia and will likely upset Mosc... The Tocqueville Connection Fri, 18 Dec 2009 13:22:30 -0500Zico believes Olympiacos FC have drawn "one of the most impressive teams in the group stage" in FC Girondins de Bordeaux, while his opposite number Laurent Blanc has fond memories of Piraeus. UEFA Fri, 18 Dec 2009 12:22:16 -0500PARIS : Former French president Jacques Chirac's legal woes mounted Friday when he was warned he could face a second set of charges that he paid allies by creating fake jobs on the Paris city hall pay... Channel News Asia Fri, 18 Dec 2009 12:03:57 -0500Blues coach David Young says his side should not be daunted by their trip to Toulouse on Saturday.The last time the region played there they went down 41-17 in the Heineken Cup quarter-final two seaso... BBC Sport Fri, 18 Dec 2009 11:48:17 -0500Former French president Jacques Chirac's legal woes mounted Friday when he was warned he could face a second set of charges that he paid allies by creating fake jobs on the Paris city hall payroll. Th... Breitbart Fri, 18 Dec 2009 10:47:09 -0500Munster have named the same starting XV and replacements for the trip to Stade Aime Giral to face Perpignan in the Heineken Cup on Sunday as those that saw duty last weekend in Thomond Park. RTE Fri, 18 Dec 2009 08:29:34 -0500 |
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