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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 ...

  • France posts 2 fall in Aprils new registered firms

    (MENAFN) The French national statistics bureau Insee stated that the number of new companies registered in April fell by 2 percent from a month before to 46,432, reported Xinhua News.The agency said that from a year earlier, the figure dropped by 2.2 percent.Insee attributed the decline to an unfavorable economic and investment conditions.Several sectors posted decreases in the number of new ...

  • British man admits killing his children in France

    Police arrested the 48-year-old unemployed man on Saturday after the bodies of his daughter and son were found at his apartment in Saint-Priest, a suburb of ...

  • Israel rejects France 2 findings on Dura affair

    Israel said on Sunday a France 2 television report seen worldwide on the death of a Palestinian child in 2000 was "baseless", following an analysis of the raw footage. The report, bolstering the Israeli political and military stance on the Mohammed al-Dura affair, comes ahead of a ruling in Paris on a defamation case between France 2 reporter Charles Enderlin and Philippe Karsenty, ...


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Monty Python and the Holy Grail [Blu-Ray]

Monty Python and the Holy Grail [Blu-Ray]

In the three and a half decades since its theatrical debut, Monty Python and the Holy Grail has become a cult favorite, one of the select cinematic experiences that actually gets better and better with each subsequent viewing. The films unevenness smoo ... ...

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  • Some wealthy households in France paid more in tax than they earned

    French President Franois Hollande's Socialist government imposed the tax surcharge last year, shortly after taking office, to offset the impact of a rebate scheme created by its conservative predecessor. (BENOIT ...

  • British skier falls to his death in French Alps

    The man, who has not been named, was out with another skier when they were caught in a storm as they descended the challenging Vallee Blanche near Chamonix.He plunged down the north face of the Aiguille du Midi mountain after the pair decided to return to the cable car because of dangerously high winds and blizzards.Mountain rescue teams have yet to recover his body.Captain Patrice Ribes, of ...

  • 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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