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  • Li Na gets bye enters quarters at Eastbourne

    China's Li Na advanced to the quarter-finals of the Eastbourne International tennis tournament as her French opponent Marion Bartoli pulled out due to a viral infection. Li, the second seed, was told about the development by her coach barely 10 minutes before the match started Wednesday, reports Xinhua. Bartoli, ranked 15th in the world and the 2011 champion, said in a statement: "I'm really ...

  • Rafale deal is progressing not bogged down Indian minister

    The $10.4 billion contract for 126 multi-role medium range combat aircraft that India has awarded to French aircraft maker Dassault for its Rafale aircraft has not got bogged down in any controversy nor were certain issues holding it up, Minister of State for Defence Jitendra Singh has said. "It is not stuck anywhere. It is the biggest deal of its kind in the world and, of course, a very ...

  • Airbus Boeing compete for mega deals at Paris Air Show

    Two world aviation industry giants, Airbus and Boeing, are engaged in fierce commercial battles for winning big orders for their long-haul airplanes at the 2013 International Paris Air Show. As the leading European aircraft manufacturer, Airbus Wednesday announced that Air France-KLM has ordered 25 Airbus A350 planes at list prices of $7.2 billion with an option for 25 additional aircraft, ...

  • Madonna emulates screen legend Marlene Dietrich in black tux

    Madonna transformed herself into 1920's German-American star Marlene Dietrich by sporting a black tuxedo and top hat at Paris Theatre in New York for the screening of 'Madonna: The MDNA Tour.' The 52-year-old singer's outfit consisting of black suit with a white shirt, tie and vest with a white rose buttonhole, and bright red lipstick bore a striking resemblance to a tailcoat that Dietrich wore ...

  • Beetles Housefly Larvae Show Great Potential for Animal Feed Sector

    PARIS French start-up company Ynsect has identified a cheap, nourishing and locally produced alternative to soybeans as a vital source of protein in animal feed. The clue is in its name. Ynsect is not alone in looking to invertebrates to meet a jump in demand for meat and fish, and so for feed, in coming decades. Black soldier flies, common housefly larvae, silkworms and yellow ...


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The Adventures of Antoine Doinel: The 400 Blows, Antoine and Colette, Stolen Kisses, Bed and Board, Love on the Run [DVD]

The Adventures of Antoine Doinel: The 400 Blows, Antoine and Colette, Stolen Kisses, Bed and Board, Love on the Run [DVD]

In the early 1950s, with the help of noted film theorist and critic Andr Bazin, 20-year-old Franois Truffaut began writing regularly for the Parisian film journal Cahiers du cinma. He quickly gained a reputation as an uncompromising and often vicious critic with a clear-cut sense of what was great about the cinemahe openly took aim on such previously untouchable French masters as Marcel Car ... ...

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  • With Russian Help Europe Prepares to Search for Life on Mars

    PARIS The European Space Agency signed final contracts with Thales Alenia Space Italy for work on a pair of missions to assess if the planet Mars has or ever had life, officials said at the Paris Airshow this week. Until last year, the ExoMars program was a joint project between ESA and the U.S. space agency NASA. But NASA dropped out, citing budget problems. The Russian space ...

  • France threatens Google with privacy fines says other European countries to follow

    PARIS -- France is giving Google three months to abide by the country's data privacy laws or be fined. The chief of the French agency that regulates information technology says that five other European countries are taking similar steps in a staggered offensive against Google's privacy policy between now and the end of July. The French agency says Spain joined France in the first ...

  • Google threatened with French fine over privacy

    France's data protection watchdog has ordered Google to change its privacy policy or face fines, leading a Europe-wide push to get the Internet giant to clarify its intentions and methods for collecting user data. The watchdog said Google's privacy policy violated French laws, giving the US company three months to make changes to it. If it failed to it risked a fine of up to ...

  • No proof in US British French data on use of chemical arms by Syria

    ST PETERSBURG, June 20 (Itar-Tass) - There is no proof in the U.S., British and French data on the possible use of chemical weapons by Syria, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov told Rossiya-24 television channel on Thursday. "American experts arrived to us and British and French experts presented their analysis. We’ve found nothing in their data what can be criticised," the ...

  • UK and France told cut Chunnel prices

    BRITAIN and France have been told by the European Commission to reduce tariffs for trains using the Channel ...

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