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Wilde about Paris: the sex, drink and liberation of Oscar Wilde's “lost” years
Only in his supposedly lost years was Wilde free to express his genius in his life. By Alex Dean.
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Study: Perceived personal connection to victims, including race, sways public's response to terrorist attacks
In response to an international terrorist attack, the public's level of concern has to do with the locations of the attacks and the perceived identities of the victims, according to a new study by two University of Kansas researchers. In November 2015, a group of Islamic State in Syria, or ISIS, terrorists carried out a series of coordinated attacks that killed 130 people and wounded 367 more. The Paris attacks were widely covered in the Western media, generated an unprecedented amount of public attention on social media outlets and were a major topic in the political debates over the course of the following year.
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Soirée de Poche № 9
Andrew Bird & St Vincent
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Paris boy's family thank Mali 'Spiderman'
The family of a small boy dramatically rescued after dangling from a balcony in Paris, France have expressed their thanks to the Malian man who saved him. "He's truly a hero," the boy's grandmother said of migrant Mamoudou Gassama, who scaled four floors to pluck the child from danger. The four-year-old's father, who had left him in their flat and gone shopping, faces charges of failing to look after his child, reports say.
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Tens of thousands protest French President Macron in Paris
Depicting the object of their ire as Napoleon, Dracula, Jupiter, a banker-king and Margaret Thatcher, tens of thousands marched through central Paris Saturday to protest against President Emmanuel Macron's sweeping reforms, a year after he took office. Some 2,000 security forces including riot police were deployed just in case a generally good-natured rally went the same way as May Day protests hijacked by anarchists.
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Man gets 'third face' in French transplant
The first person in the world to receive two facial transplants says he is feeling well, three months after his latest groundbreaking operation. Jérôme Hamon had his first transplanted face removed last year after signs of rejection following a treatment with an incompatible antibiotic during a cold. The 43 year old remained in a hospital in Paris without a face for two months while a compatible donor was sought. He said: "The first [face] I accepted immediately. This time it's the same."
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French hero policeman honoured in Paris
Tributes have been paid across France to the police officer who died after he offered himself in exchange for a hostage in an Islamist attack. The coffin carrying Lt Col Arnaud Beltrame was driven in heavy rain through Paris, where hundreds of people joined a national memorial service. President Emmanuel Macron said the officer, who was 44, symbolised the "French spirit of resistance".
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I Wanted To Love Paris, But It Didn’t Love Me
When I went to Paris for a semester abroad, I thought I would find the truer, best version of myself. But I didn't realize that you don't get to choose how you'll be seen.
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Paris sex doll centre 'not a brothel'
Paris councillors have rejected a motion targeting a business where clients are charged €89 ($109; £78) to spend an hour with a silicone sex doll. Communist councillors and feminist groups had called on the Council of Paris - the body responsible for governing the city - to study the possibilities of closing Xdolls. They argued it was demeaning to women - and effectively a brothel.
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Suspect for Paris terror attacks that killed 130 goes on trial
Hundreds of armed police are guarding the Brussels court where the trial of Salah Abdeslam, the prime suspect behind the November 2015 Paris attacks, opens today after his secret transfer from a prison outside the French capital. Mr Abdeslam, a French national of Moroccan descent, is being tried on charges of terrorism, possession of weapons and attempted murder during a shoot-out with police in Brussels three days before his arrest in March 2016.
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Heavy snow shuts down Eiffel Tower weeks after abnormal rainfall soaked Paris
After drying out from near-record rainfall that swamped Paris last month, the French capital awoke this morning to a white blanket of snowfall thick enough to shut down the famed Eiffel Tower. Around 5 inches of snow has fallen there in the past 24 hours, according to French official weather service Meteo France.
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The Art of Madness
An exhibition of art collected from psychiatric hospitals between the two world wars examines the relationship between creativity and madness.
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Paris braced as Seine surges higher
Riverside homes and businesses in Paris are on high alert as the swollen River Seine threatens to overflow its banks. Some basements in the city have already sprung leaks after the river surged following heavy rainfall, reports said. The Seine is forecast to swell even further this weekend, adding several metres of water above its normal level. Many roads in the region are already waterlogged. Boat traffic - including the capital's famous tourist cruises - has also been interrupted.
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Paris zoo evacuated after 52 baboons escape enclosure
Fifty-two baboons escaped on Friday from their enclosure at the Paris zoological park in Vincennes, on the southeastern outskirts of the French capital, according to reports. The zoo has been evacuated, police have arrived and three marksmen armed with hypodermic guns are at the scene. The latest reports suggest that all but four have now returned to their enclosure after being caught "in a net", according to police sources.
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Paris on flooding alert as rising Seine causes travel disruption
Parisians have been warned to stay away from the river Seine as it continues to rise, flooding surrounding roads and causing disruption to the city’s transport network. As water levels increased on Wednesday, the capital’s authorities said the river could pass the 6.10-metre (20ft) level of 2016, the highest in over a century and more than four metres above its normal height.
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Seine River Bursts Banks in Paris
Metro lines and stations have been closed after France's wettest January for more than 100 years.
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UN warns climate change goals are almost out of reach
Rising seas threaten the existence of small island states and could displace tens of millions in Bangladesh, Vietnam and other countries with densely populated river deltas.
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The Secret History of Paris's Catacomb Mushrooms
In the 1800s, farmers cultivated mushrooms in abandoned quarries underneath the French capital.
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Can You Tell China’s Fake Paris Apart From Real Paris?
A new series places images from the French capital next to scenes from the city of Tianducheng.
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Toy Soldiers
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