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15,000 heritage sites open doors
FRANCE?S monuments, famous buildings and heritage sites open their doors this weekend for the 26th Journées du Patrimoine.
Last year the Palais de la République, the Elysée, Matignon, Sénat and …
Sarkozy hospital visit criticised
A HEALTH union has criticised what they see as over-the-top arrangements for a planned presidential visit to a hospital in a Paris suburb.
Sud-santé says the numerous security checks being planned a…
Ségo site is for sore eyes
DAYS after critics lambasted the ‘cheap’ new look on Ségolène Royal’s website its appearance has changed again.
Replacing the ‘sunrise over the prairie’ landscape and silver font is a purple ‘potat…
Swine flu declared an 'epidemic'
THE number of cases of swine flu has doubled over the last week ? to 103,000 cases ? and health minister Roselyne Bachelot says the epidemic has arrived.
Health watchdog InVS said the week of Septe…
Talk on French and English humour
Author Jean-Loup Chiflet explains how to be funny in both languages at a book event in Paris on September 22
Ex-PM on trial in Clearstream affair
FORMER Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin is appearing at the Paris Criminal Court in connection with the Clearstream affair.
He is suspected of involvement in a leak in 2004 of what turned out to…
Strangers to get ?280,000 legacy
A WOMAN has left all her ?280,000 fortune to about 200 people she met by chance through life.
Jeannine Vromant, from Dieppe, Seine-Maritime, died in 2008 at the age of 86 and, having no family and h…
Electricity opened up to competition
HOMES and businesses across France will have a broader choice of who supplies their electricity from the middle of next year.
France has agreed to fully open up the electricity market to competition …
PS election fraud must be probed
FORMER Socialist Party leadership candidate Ségolène Royal is demanding the party investigate allegations of fraud in the election she lost ? or sue the authors of a book making the claims.
The pr…
Hortefeux faces race slur charges
INTERIOR minister Brice Hortefeux faces charges by an anti-racist group alleging racist defamation after his comments to an Arab youth in a video clip.
The executive committee of the anti-racist grou…