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Top Stories:  | 40 masked raiders steal from shop
 Friday, July 03, 2009
FORTY masked people walked out of a Leclerc supermarket in the Ile-de-France with €9,000 worth of goods.
The thieves entered the supermarket in Etampes in the department of Essonne and grabbed electr... (read more...) |  Nutella sales are spreading
Friday, July 03, 2009
NUTELLA sales are spreading and have risen 6% over the past year as it beats the sales crunch.
The hazelnut-chocolate spread has grabbed 90% of the market for pâtes à tartiner (spreads) in France.
N... (read more...) |  Atlantic crash jet fell like a stone
Friday, July 03, 2009
CRASH investigators say the Air France jet that plunged into the Atlantic off Brazil killing all 228 on board “fell like a stone” and the people on board did not even have time to fix their seat belts... (read more...) |  Car scrapping boosts new sales
Thursday, July 02, 2009
CAR sales have been boosted due to the effects of prime à la casse – money paid for scrapping an old car – with sales up 7% in June.
The latest rise has meant that over the past six months new car sa... (read more...) |  Roaming phone charges chopped
Thursday, July 02, 2009
MOBILE phone call roaming charges have been cut due to the European Union’s new maximum tariffs.
Making calls now costs a maximum of 43 centimes a minute (down from 46) within the EU while receiving ... (read more...) | | | | | |
Paris, July 4 : Manchester United striker Wayne Rooney, who is holidaying on the French Riviera, ended up in a hospital after stumbling over his luxury yacht. Big News Network.com Sat, 04 Jul 2009 05:50:06 -0400New Delhi, July 4 : A 400-strong contingent of the three wings of Indian defence forces (Army, Navy and Air Force) performed a full-dress rehearsal here today ahead of their visit to France to participate in a parade making National Day celebrations in France on July 14. Big News Network.com Sat, 04 Jul 2009 02:50:20 -0400The Yemeni airline Yemenia could be placed on a black list and banned from flying in Europe if it did not improve the condition of its aircraft, French Junior Minister for Transport Dominique Bussereau said Friday. Big News Network.com Fri, 03 Jul 2009 10:30:10 -0400(07-04) 04:00 PDT MONACO -- The face of cycling has undergone a dramatic change since Lance Armstrong last rode and won the Tour de France four summers ago. One graphic example can be seen in the odd... San Francisco Chronicle Sat, 04 Jul 2009 06:35:04 -0400SSP Chowrasia was the lone Indian to make the cut after carding a two-over 73 even as compatriots Jeev Milkha Singh, Jyoti Randhawa and Shiv Kapur fell by the wayside at Open de France Alstom golf tou... NDTV Sat, 04 Jul 2009 06:31:58 -0400Paris - One victim of a Friday French train crash continued to cling to life in a hospital Saturday as investigators and rescue crew continued to pore over the crash site. The collision Friday evening... Earth Times Sat, 04 Jul 2009 06:24:04 -0400Benzema is Lyon through and through, having been born in the city and come through the youth ranks at Stade Gerland.He burst onto the scene in the 2007-08 season with 31 goals in 51 games, and avera... Soccernet Sat, 04 Jul 2009 06:16:20 -0400Luxury goods manufacturer Montblanc, recognized worldwide for its classic timepieces, jewelry, leather goods and writing instruments announced the expansion of its retail distribution network in Saudi... AME Info Sat, 04 Jul 2009 06:18:09 -04007/3/2009, 8:01 p.m. EDT (AP) ? LOS OLIVOS, Calif. - Like an old Western boomtown, the makeshift village that sprang up around the gates of Michael Jackson's Neverland Ranch was vanishing Friday... New Jersey Online Sat, 04 Jul 2009 05:49:22 -04007/4/2009, 4:00 a.m. EDT (AP) ? Here is a glance at the backstory of Pineland, a fictional community created in North Carolina to help U.S. Special Forces train for assignments overseas:... New Jersey Online Sat, 04 Jul 2009 05:49:09 -0400Brazil's Air Force released a statement on Friday in which it denies any errors in the Air France Flight 447 case, and said it warned the Senegalese air traffic control that the Air France's Flight 44... People's Daily Sat, 04 Jul 2009 05:20:47 -0400For the first time ever, the Indian Navy sent a big fleet of four vessels as far out as the Atlantic Ocean for Varuna -- the Indo-French naval exercise that is carried out every year for the last seve... NDTV Sat, 04 Jul 2009 04:13:28 -0400Professor Janusz Filipiak, Comarch Founder and CEO, presented the face of the corporate strategy during the opening of Comarch‘s new headquarters in Lille, France. 24 / 7 Press Release Sat, 04 Jul 2009 03:52:39 -0400Thirteen people were injured on Friday, two seriously, when a train derailed near the southwestern French city of Limoges after hitting a trailer, the police said in a statement. Three wagons derai... iafrica.com Sat, 04 Jul 2009 03:43:30 -0400PARIS — Protesters linked arms across an entrance at Paris' main airport on Friday to keep passengers off a Yemeni flight to Comoros — a route that saw a deadly crash this week, after ye... Deseret News Sat, 04 Jul 2009 03:39:39 -0400London, Jul 3 : A British woman took a drastic step to stress the threat of extinction facing sharks worldwide by piercing her skin with giant fish hooks, and hanging herself from the ceiling of a bou... New Kerala Sat, 04 Jul 2009 01:58:13 -0400VERSAILLES: Argentina's latest golfing discovery, Rafa Echenique, grabbed the halfway lead in the French Open at Le Golf National yesterday. New Straits Times Fri, 03 Jul 2009 20:55:03 -0400PARIS (Reuters) - The operator of a Yemeni aircraft that crashed into the Indian Ocean off the Comoros islands this week has suspended flights from Paris, a spokeswoman for Aeroports de Paris, the Par... The Star Fri, 03 Jul 2009 20:37:05 -0400MONACO: Having a punctured lung blow back up to its full capacity in time for the Tour de France is one of the few positives that Australian cyclist Stuart O'Grady has been allowed to enjoy this seaso... New Straits Times Fri, 03 Jul 2009 20:55:00 -0400La Tuilerie, Limousin La Tuilerie is a working farm with cows, sheep – and a collection of tepees and yurts. Sleeping up to six, they are all furnished with futons, tables, rugs, sheepski... The Independent Fri, 03 Jul 2009 19:59:57 -0400Calais/Afghan migrant refugees at a car park feeding station wait for handouts. Photograph: Martin Argles Amid the crowds of young men sleeping rough in a fetid squat in the Calais sand dunes, Nasee... guardian.co.uk Fri, 03 Jul 2009 18:20:19 -0400Search parties, comprising U.S., French, Yemen and Comorean navy divers, set out to the Indian Ocean on July 3, 2009, following the June 30 crash of a Yemenia airline A310 Airbus on a second approach ... Vancouver Sun Fri, 03 Jul 2009 18:05:19 -0400DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (AP) ? Brian France defended NASCAR's drug testing policy as the toughest in professional sports, despite a federal judge's ruling that overturned driver Jeremy Mayfield's sus... USA Today Fri, 03 Jul 2009 18:09:27 -0400Cheb Mami, the 42-year-old star of Algeria's popular rai music, whose real name is Mohammad Khelifati, was tried for complicity in kidnapping, group assault on a vulnerable person, threatening a victi... Gulf News Fri, 03 Jul 2009 17:49:31 -0400Atlanta: When a tiny French town destroyed during the Second World War needed help rebuilding, Gone With the Wind author Margaret Mitchell came to the rescue. Mitchell's efforts on behalf of Vimoutier... Gulf News Fri, 03 Jul 2009 17:49:03 -0400July 3, 2009 · The Tour de France starts Saturday in Monaco and finishes July 26 in Paris. The race's image has been severely damaged by numerous doping scandals in recent years. Seven-time cha... NPR Fri, 03 Jul 2009 18:25:49 -0400Nicolas Sarkozy , agreed with David Blunkett, the then home secretary, to shut the camp in 2002.Seven years on, charities in Calais warn that migrants who are sleeping rough are facing dire sanitation... guardian.co.uk Fri, 03 Jul 2009 18:20:21 -0400France on Friday rejected a report by the European Union's food safety watchdog that declared a genetically modified strain of maize, banned in six EU countries, to be safe for health and the environm... Breitbart Fri, 03 Jul 2009 15:02:16 -0400The new French Agriculture Minister Bruno Le Maire has appealed to European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso to intervene in the falling milk price crisis. Le Maire called for an analysis of w... Euro News Fri, 03 Jul 2009 15:32:43 -0400PARIS (AP) -- France's sports minister says Lance Armstrong will be "particularly monitored" for doping during the Tour de France. The seven-time Tour winner has come out of retirement to ri... Sports Illustrated Fri, 03 Jul 2009 15:43:18 -0400The Vatican newspaper Friday praised influential French Protestant John Calvin, a critic of the Roman Catholic Church, hailing him an "extraordinary" figure. The Osservatore Romano, on the 500th anniv... Breitbart Fri, 03 Jul 2009 15:02:09 -0400MONTE CARLO, MONACO -- 07/03/09 -- The Lance Armstrong Foundation (LAF) marked the beginning of the LIVESTRONG Global Cancer Campaign's Tour de France efforts with a fundraising dinner, hosted by H... Earth Times Fri, 03 Jul 2009 15:30:03 -0400'Maxime Medard had a sudden rise in temperature on Wednesday after the return from Australia,' French team media officer Lionel Rossigneux said in a statement. 'Medical tests confirmed on Friday he h... RTE Fri, 03 Jul 2009 16:03:21 -0400French unions for the software company Oracle Corp. say the company has told them it plans to cut between 850 and 1,000 jobs in Europe in response to slowing growth. In a joint statement, five of t... 5PIX Fri, 03 Jul 2009 15:26:39 -0400Cycling: Doping? Moi? Tour de France in drive to eradicate cheats For all of Lance Armstrong's victories at the Tour de France, he still hasn't been able to win over the hearts of the French.As the 37... New Zealand Herald Fri, 03 Jul 2009 13:50:38 -0400A portrait photograph of John Lennon and Yoko Ono posing with flowers at the Bed-In with this L'Amour Et La Paix placard clearly visible on the wall behind them in Suite 1742 at the Queen Elizabeth Ho... Windsor Star Fri, 03 Jul 2009 13:31:28 -0400An unidentified relative of passengers reacts at Marseille airport, southern France, Tuesday June 30, 2009 after a jet from Yemen with 153 people on board crashed in the Indian Ocean early Tuesday as ... Sun-Sentinel Fri, 03 Jul 2009 13:35:41 -0400P ARIS, July 3, 2009 (AFP) - President Nicolas Sarkozy's office on Fridaypublished a partial health report for the French leader, saying the results of his recent blood and heart tests were "normal." ... The Tocqueville Connection Fri, 03 Jul 2009 13:23:42 -0400(AP) ? PARIS - French rugby player Maxime Medard has been diagnosed with swine flu after returning from an international match in Australia. A feverish Medard went to a hospital Thursday on th... New Jersey Online Fri, 03 Jul 2009 13:18:31 -0400Padraig Harrington's miserable form continued as he missed his fifth successive cut after carding a 75 in the second round of the French Open.The Irishman had been hoping to regain his form in the pen... BBC Sport Fri, 03 Jul 2009 13:43:47 -0400Stockholm -France remains opposed to Turkey becoming a full member of the European Union, French President Nicolas Sarkozy said Friday during a visit to Stockholm. Sarkozy was the first head of state ... Earth Times Fri, 03 Jul 2009 11:25:44 -0400Lyon chairman Jean-Michel Aulas has confirmed the club's interest in signing Juventus striker David Trezeguet. The French side are in the market for attacking reinforcements after agreeing to sell ... Sky Sports Fri, 03 Jul 2009 11:37:12 -0400) - France called on Friday for regulation in the agricultural industry to be as tough as in the financial sector in order guarantee a minimum income for farmers. "Agriculture is too strategic to be ... EU Business Fri, 03 Jul 2009 11:25:58 -0400PARIS -- French Prime Minister Francois Fillon lent his support Wednesday to Quebec Premier Jean Charest's call for greater provincial government influence on Canada's climate change policy.Mr. Fillon... National Post Fri, 03 Jul 2009 11:12:36 -0400Air France Flight 447 to Senegalese authorities before it crashed. The audio has been posted on the air force Web site after a French official said air traffic controllers in Dakar, Senegal, never off... Sun-Sentinel Fri, 03 Jul 2009 11:01:58 -0400/PRNewswire/ -- Cotes du Rhone proudly announces "Celebrate Summer the French Way," a two week celebration of French cooking and Rhone Valley wines in collaboration with Maitres Cuisiniers d... Earth Times Fri, 03 Jul 2009 10:59:43 -0400MOSCOW, July 3 (RIA Novosti) - A lawyer for Irina Belenkaya, a Russian woman embroiled in a custody battle with her estranged French husband over their daughter, has said a French court's decision to ... RIA Novosti Fri, 03 Jul 2009 10:57:07 -0400Bok debutant Zane Kirchner is relishing his first Test for his country against the British and Irish Lions, but don't expect anything too fancy from the in-form Bulls full-back on Saturday. Injurie... Planet Rugby Fri, 03 Jul 2009 09:03:50 -0400Number eight Ryan Kankowski will make his return to the Springbok line-up on Saturday, determined to make up for lost time after watching the majority of the series from the stands. In fact, Kankow... Planet Rugby Fri, 03 Jul 2009 09:03:52 -0400The curtain clings by one remaining thread before falling on what's been another fine British and Irish Lions series, with Johannesburg set to host this duo's last meeting until 2021 - hard to believe... Planet Rugby Fri, 03 Jul 2009 09:03:46 -0400With 18 of last week's starting 30 changed, we've got plenty of new clashes all over the field to talk about on this week's head-to-head. Planet Rugby's Danny Stephens and Dave Morris got together ... Planet Rugby Fri, 03 Jul 2009 09:03:44 -0400Reds scrum-half Will Genia found his inspiration from a phone call from Australian coach Robbie Deans whilst recovering from a recent finger injury. The 21-year-old sustained the problem during Sup... Planet Rugby Fri, 03 Jul 2009 09:03:48 -0400South Africa will not let the unsuccessful appeal of lock Bakkies Botha, against his suspension for the cleaning out at a ruck, deter them from playing their normal physical game in the third Test aga... Planet Rugby Fri, 03 Jul 2009 09:03:42 -0400TAIPEI, Taiwan -- The 2010 Taipei International Book Exhibition, one of the highest-profile book fairs in Asia, will focus on French literature and publishing as its main theme, the organizer announce... China Post Online Fri, 03 Jul 2009 08:52:54 -0400The talks would be covering matters of European interest, including institutions, climate change, financial regulation and enlargement of theEuropean Union, according to the French presidency. The Tocqueville Connection Fri, 03 Jul 2009 08:20:56 -0400 |
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