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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…

Loophole could save Scientology

A NEW law has been ?discovered? that means that whatever the outcome of France?s Scientology trial, the French branch of the group cannot be dissolved.

French Scientology ? considered to be a cul…

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…

Hadopi 2 due to be passed

A LAW designed to punish illegal downloaders in France is finally due to be passed by the National Assembly today after months of fierce debate.

The ?Hadopi 2? legislation will set out a system of …

Cheap cinema deal this week

SPECIAL ?4 cinema seats are on offer until Wednesday as part of La Rentrée du Cinéma.

The end-of-summer event has been extended to include Wednesday, allowing people to watch some of the new rele…

TGV runs over man sleeping on tracks

A DRUNKEN music festival fan has escaped unharmed after a TGV ran over the top of him as he slept between the train tracks on the Paris-Quimper line.

The train driver had spotted a body on the line a…