Nathalie Dolivo, a write for French Elle Magazine has caused public outrage and a boycott of the magazine after they wrote that Africa-American's didn't have a clue about style until the Obama family entered the White House.
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Ratings agency Standard & Poor's on Friday announced the downgrade status of seven countries including France, Austria, Italy and Spain.
With France and Austria losing their triple-A status' analysts worry that the country will have a hard time ...
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Actress Salma Hayek is about to become a Knight. The actress of movies, TV and CGI based animated blockbusters was named by President Nicolas Sarkozy to receive the Légion d'Honneur Sunday.
Hayek, 45, will enter the five-tier honor academy ...
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The United States and France warned Iran on Wednesday that closing the Strait of Hormuz would bring with it swift and direct punishment.
The Strait of Hormuz is the world's most strategic oil transit channel and follows along ...
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30,000 women in France who received breast implants from Poly Implant Prothèse have been told by the French government to have them removed immediately because of rupture and irritation fears.
The government is so serious about their request that ...
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Scientists at the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland may be ready to announce that they have caught a glimpse of the Higgs Boson Particle. The Higgs Boson is more commonly referred to as the "God" Particle, because ...
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Despite last weeks Brussels summit which was geared towards increasing confidence in the eurozone France could soon be downgraded from the triple A credit rating they have held since 1975.
In a warning to France, Germany and other ...
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A 3-year-old boy in France was killed this week when his father placed him in a washing machine and locked him inside.
The boy's father, 33, placed his naked body in the washer as a punishment for flushing ...
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French President Nicolas Sarkozy thinks that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is "a liar."
In a conversation with President Barack Obama where Sarkozy was unaware of a live microphone, he said:
"I cannot bear Netanyahu, he's a liar."
Obama replied:
"You're ...
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Carlos the Jackal was yesterday put on trial in France for a second time, for a series of deadly attacks that were carried out almost three decades ago.
The 62-year-old Venezuelan, real name Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, is already ...
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Nigerian comic actor Babatunde Omidina, known as Baba Suwe, is now a free man on $3,300 bail. He was initially arrested last October 12 at the Lagos international airport, accused of swallowing narcotics before boarding a flight ...
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Credit ratings agency Moody's has downgraded Spain's credit rating two notches, following in the footsteps of a recent Standard & Poor's downgrade for the country.
Speaking about the recent downgrade the agency said:
"Spain continues to be vulnerable to ...
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France has always had a history around protecting their culture, for example they kept their own language when Anglo-Saxon invaders took to the area and they protected their most precious structures when wars were waged and now ...
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Tragic news to report out of France, a furnace at a nuclear power plant exploded on Monday killing one employee and injuring four others.
According to French energy company EDF no radioactive leaks were detected and no waste ...
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A French judge has put a price tag on the cost of sex or at least the lack of sex, ruling that a 51-year-old man in southern France must pay his wive $14,000 for "lack of sex ...
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Simple. Elegant. Clever. The new Nintendo DSi XL launches in Europe on March 5th, and this French advert explains the handheld's main selling point to prospective buyers - in the cutest way possible.
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Pardon the headline but I couldn't help myself given this rather cool ad graphic.
This is an ad for promoting the recycling of old electrical equipment that is being run in France
hat tip to Design You Trust
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Irish football fans are crying into their pints after a "blatant handball pass" by Thierry Henry in the 104th minute of play cost the Irish team the win.
Now France is headed to the 2010 World Cup and ...
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Crass American consumerism is coming to one of France's most revered cultural institutions.
Louvre staff and other artsy French types bristled at the inclusion of America's most famous gastronomic low-culture eatery at the museum. The new McDonald's will ...
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French politicians are pushing a new law that will force publishers who use photoshopped pictures to print a disclosure that the pictures are photoshopped.
The new photoshopped disclosure law, which would apply to any "retouched photograph aimed at ...
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If you thought that the WMD story behind the invasion of Iraq was bad, wait until you hear what former US President George W Bush told then French President Jacques Chirac: the invasion of Iraq what a ...
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The French Government is in trouble with the European Union (EU) for surrendering the future of an endangered hamster.
The EU claims that the French have allowed the greater hamster of Alsace, the only wild hamster left in ...
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