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French authorities lose three suspected jihadists after waiting at the wrong airport
High confusion surrounded the fate of three men suspected of joining militants in Syria, after a plan to detain them on their return to France collapsed because security forces waited for them at the wrong airport.
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France announces world’s toughest anti-smoking laws
France, where a Gauloise once hung from the bottom lip of every actor or intellectual, plans to move to one of the toughest anti-tobacco regimes in the world.
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Man who escaped car crash hit and killed by wife rushing to rescue him
A man who escaped a car crash after his vehicle came off the road at a sharp bend has been killed by his wife who crashed at the exact same spot as she was rushing to his rescue.
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Isil hostage Peter Kassig 'is now devout Muslim who prays five times a day', says ex-captive
The Western hostage next in line to be murdered by Islamic State extremists is now a devout Muslim who prays five times a day and fasts twice a week, despite being starved by his captors.
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Patrick Modiano Wins the Nobel Prize in Literature
Novelist is 11th French writer to win prestigious award
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Over two million French people now live abroad, and most are crossing the channel and heading to London
The land of 400 cheeses, the birthplace of Molière and Coco Chanel, is facing an unprecedented exodus. Up to 2.5 million French people now live abroad, and more are bidding “au revoir” each year.
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Two Air France pilots were asleep before fatal 2009 crash as one woke to say 'F**k, we're dead'
Two Air France pilots were asleep, leaving a rookie at the controls, before the plane crashed into the sea in 2009, killing all 228 people board. Disturbing new recorder information from doomed Flight 447 which crashed into the Atlantic Ocean five years ago also reveals one of the pilots shouted "F**k, we're dead" as the plane went down.
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French soldier’s room unchanged 96 years after his death in first world war
Parents kept room as it was the day he left, and stipulated when they moved that it should not be changed for 500 years
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Take a Tour of The Gigantic, Secretive Market Where France’s Top Chefs Buy Their Food
The best food in France comes from a single place — but hardly anyone knows it (and now it could be toast).
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Giant inflatable 'sex toy' sculpture in Paris is meant to be a Christmas tree
This inflatable “Christmas tree” erected in Paris is making passers-by feel a little uncomfortable.
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Paris 'sex toy' sculpture sabotaged at Place Vendome
A huge inflatable sculpture inspired by a sex toy has been sabotaged days after it was installed in Paris. The 24m (80ft) sculpture on Place Vendome in Paris was brought down when supporting cords were cut. Earlier, US artist Paul McCarthy told a French newspaper that he was attacked by a man who said the sculpture had no place being on the street.
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22 Incredible Images Show What the Future Looked Like 100 Years Ago
These amazing, almost 100-year old covers of the weekly French magazine Le Petite Journal are from the online collection of the french National Library. They show what were the most exciting innovations of the 1920s, and how people in Europe imagined the future of technology and science.
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Muslim Woman Forced to Remove Her Face Veil In Public, Didn't End Well
A veiled Muslim woman was kicked out of a famed Paris opera house after cast members refused to perform in her covered presence. Cast members performing th
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French rail conductors test out Google Glass
French train conductors donned Google Glass on Thursday to check passengers tickets as part of an experiment in using the fancy bit of technology and it may be popping up again somewhere else soon.
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No laughing matter: Clown terror spreads in France
A wave of panic sparked by evil clowns stalking French towns has spread to the south of France where police on Saturday night arrested 14 teenagers dressed as the pranksters, carrying pistols, knives and baseball bats.
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Why the French State has a Team of UFO Hunters
Thousands of UFO sightings are reported every year but not many countries are willing to spend money investigating them - there is just one dedicated state-run team left in Europe. Is France onto something?
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France finally upgrades animals from 'furniture' status
French parliament passes new law ending 200-year Napoleonic definition of animals as "furniture" on a par with washing machines
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The First Photograph of a Human Being
Although the street would have been busy, it appears deserted. Everyone was moving was too fast to register after the long exposure — except one person.
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The Smile Revolution in Eighteenth Century Paris – review
This intriguing study looks at a time when the very act of smiling was improper and radical – and the moment when this changed
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Was Vincent van Gogh Murdered?
For many decades, suicide was the unquestioned final chapter of Vincent van Gogh’s legend. But in their 2011 book, Pulitzer Prize-winning biographers Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith offered a far more plausible scenario—that Van Gogh was killed—only to find themselves under attack. Now, with the help of a leading forensic expert, the authors take their case a step further.
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