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  • Weepy Becks ends glittering career with PSG win

    Football icon David Beckham had reportedly broken down into tears as he captained the newly crowned French champions Paris St-Germain at the Parc des Princes in Paris to a comfortable 3-1 victory over Brest, signifying a fitting end to his glittering career. Beckham, who was watched by a crowd of 55,000 including his wife, mother, children and former French President Nicolas Sarkozy, had by far ...

  • Russia reviews adoption law over French gay marriage

    Russia's children's rights ombudsman Pavel Astakhov has said Moscow may change its adoption agreement with France in response to the country's new gay marriage law. Earlier Saturday French President Francois Hollande signed into law a controversial bill allowing same-sex marriage. The bill has sparked mass protests throughout the nation. Russian President Vladimir Putin said late last month ...

  • Pedrosa wins in France takes MotoGP lead

    France Honda's Dani Pedrosa won the French MotoGP at Le Mans on Monday morning from Cal Crutchlow to take the lead in the world championship standings.The Spaniard, following up his win in Spain last time out, made light of the tricky early wet conditions to cross the line five seconds clear of Crutchlow.The Briton manfully shrugged off a fracture to his right shin in a crash in ...

  • Israel demands French TV change 13-year-old report on boys death

    Israel strikes open up 'all possibilities' - Syrian minister Israel has demanded a French television station correct a report from nearly 13 years ago which helped fuel anger across the world and ignite a bloody uprising against the Jewish state. Twelve-year-old Mohammed al-Dura and his father, Jamal, were filmed crouching in terror by a wall in the Gaza Strip in September 2000, ...

  • France has been ignoring its problems now the chickens are coming home to roost

    By contrast, last week’s news from the eurozone was dire. Q1’s drop of 0.2pc in GDP was the sixth successive quarterly contraction. It included the second successive drop for France, thereby formally putting it in ...


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Matchstick Men

Matchstick Men

Nicholas Cage bought the rights to Eric Garcias novel Matchstick Men before it was even published, and its not hard to see why. The protagonist, a veteran con man with a laundry list of obsessive-compulsive psychological tics, is tailor-made for the quirky actor. Cage has always excelled at playing characters on the teetering edge of something, whether it be Raising Arizonas stresse ... ...

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  • Paris Hilton becomes swatting victim again

    Paris Hilton has become a swatting victim for the second time. The hotel heiress was once again the subject of a cruel prank when someone called 911 pretending to be her, claiming she was trapped in her bedroom with a gun to her head. Police rushed to the socialite's Los Angeles mansion, but the only sign of life they found were her pet pooches tearing around the house, according to ...

  • Soccer-Paris St Germain turn down Ancelottis request to leave

    PSG to Ligue 1 title (Adds club president reaction) By Julien Pretot PARIS, May 19 (Reuters) - Carlo Ancelotti informed Paris St Germain officials on Sunday that he wants to leave at the end of the season after leading the team to their first French league title in 19 years but the club turned down his request. "I have asked the club to leave and I am waiting for their answer because ...

  • Paris Saint-Germain celebrates title with victory

    Thibault Camus/AP PARIS (AP) -Zlatan Ibrahimovic stole some of the spotlight from David Beckham as he scored two goals to lead French champion Paris Saint-Germain to a 3-1 home win against Brest on Saturday. Beckham, who announced on Thursday that he will retire at the end of the season, captained PSG in his last ever home game and played a part in the first goal before setting up ...

  • Paris St Germain refuse to allow Carlo Ancelotti to leave for Real Madrid

    Carlo Ancelotti wants to swap the French capital for the Spanish version, but as yet PSG have refused to release him. Photograph: Patrick Kovarik/AFP/Getty ...

  • It costs more to live here than Paris NY London

    SYDNEY'S property market has stepped up to the world stage with inner city prices topping those in Manhattan, Paris and London and uninhabitable hovels in the inner west fetching up to ...

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