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  • Paris Hiltons beau shoves harassing female fan at Cannes

    Paris Hilton's boyfriend River Viiperi aggressively pushed an overeager fan in Cannes on Friday after the woman got too close to the reality Tv star. Hilton, who arrived in France last week, had to fight her way through crowds and paparazzi as she made her way to a party with Viiperi. It was then that one female admirer pushed up against the star's arm in an effort to capture a photo with her ...

  • Depardieu to open restaurant in Russian city

    French actor Gerard Depardieu, a Russian citizen since early this year, is soon to open a restaurant in the city where he now resides, authorities said Monday. "Depardieu told us that he will soon open a restaurant that aims to attract creative, enterprising people," Valeri Maresiev, information minister for the Russian Republic of Mordovia, told the Interfax news agency. The actor went ...

  • French historian kills himself at Notre Dame Cathedral after gay marriage rant

    Notre Dame Cathedral after a former far-right activist killed himself in front of its main altar.The man, Dominique Venner, 78, a historian known in France for his political essays, was carrying a letter but made no declaration before shooting himself through the mouth, the source said.A note posted on his blog on Tuesday ...

  • Tourists evacuated after suicide at Notre Dame in Paris

    Some 1,500 visitors were cleared out of Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris after a man put a letter on the altar of the 850-year-old monument Tuesday, pulled out a gun and shot himself in the ...

  • UK drops behind France for credit and debit card fraud for first time

    Debit and credit card fraud losses rose 14 percent in the UK last year but that wasn’t enough to stop France deposing it as the top country for plastic crime, analytics ...


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Glengarry Glen Ross [DVD]

Glengarry Glen Ross [DVD]

High-pressure salesmen are always walking a thin, dangerous line between their main purpose in life (which is to deceive or, at the very best, to bend the truth to their advantage) and how they must appear (which is honest and genuine) . Whether or not a salesman truly believes he is selling a good product is immaterial. His main function is to tell you what he thinks you want to hear so you will ... ...

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  • BREAKING Suicide shuts Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris

    John Lichfield has been The Independent's man in Paris since 1997, covering French news. Before that, he was the paper's Foreign Editor and he has also worked in Brussels and ...

  • Frances Bruni gets personal at Cannes

    Franco-Italian director Valeria Bruni Tedeschi relived a painful chapter of her family history in a film presented at Cannes Tuesday in which she cast her real-life mother and ex-lover. Bruni Tedeschi, the elder sister of France's former First Lady Carla Bruni, said her work on "A Castle in Italy" (Un Chateau en Italie) helped heal old wounds. "For me work is a form of ...

  • Research and Markets PharmaPoint Multiple Sclerosis - France Drug Forecast and Market Analysis to 2022

    "PharmaPoint: Multiple Sclerosis - France Drug Forecast and Market Analysis to 2022" report to their offering. PharmaPoint: Multiple Sclerosis - France Drug Forecast and Market Analysis to 2022. Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a chronic, inflammatory neurological disorder characterized pathologically by demyelination, axonal transection and neurodegeneration within the central ...

  • Far-right writer kills self inside Notre Dame de Paris

    PARIS (AFP) - A far-right writer and activist shot himself dead in front of the altar of Paris's famed Notre Dame Cathedral on Tuesday, shortly after calling for "spectacular" action to protect France's identity.Police and his publisher confirmed the man's identity as Dominique Venner, 78, a long-time essayist and activist linked with France's far-right and ...

  • French military rebuild bridge blown up by Islamic fighters in Mali

    TASSIGA, Mali - French soldiers in Mali have rebuilt a bridge which was dynamited in January by fighters from an al-Qaida-linked Islamic extremist group. The bridge in the village of Tassiga is close to the Niger border. Fighters from the Movement for Oneness and Jihad in West Africa destroyed the bridge to stop the arrival of African troops stationed in Niger, who were entering to help French ...

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