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  • Murray pulls out of French Open

    US Open and Olympic champion Andy Murray Tuesday announced he will skip the French Open tennis due to a back injury. The World No.2 retired with the back problem in his second-round match against Spain's Marcel Granollers at the Rome Masters last week, which posed as a bad sign for his withdrawal from the second tennis Grand Slam of the year. Scotsman Murray will now aim to be fully fit for ...

  • IMF Chief Lagarde to Appear Before French Courts

    Paris, May 22 (Prensa Latina) International Monetary Fund chief Christine Lagarde will be grilled Thursday by prosecutors investigating her alleged involvement in a corruption case occurred during her time as French finance minister. Lagarde will appear before the Court of Justice of the Republic (CJR), which probes cases of ministerial misconduct, to explain her 2007 handling of a row that ...

  • Kim Kardashian Makes Final Trip to Paris Before Babys Birth Pictures

    is making the most of her time in the City of Lights before she has to bid it adieu for the next several months. The pregnant reality star and her ...

  • France May Allow English-Language Courses In Universities

    Demonstrators hold placards as they rally from the Pantheon square towards the National Assembly on May 22, 2013 in Paris, during a protest against a draft law by the French government for higher education. (JACQUES DEMARTHON/AFP/Getty ...

  • The Cannes Festival means its party-time on the French Riviera

    20/05/2013 05:44 CET The magic of the Cannes Film Festival lies of course with the red carpet and the movies, but there are also secret places for the privileged where only the favoured have access. Euronews reporter Frederic Ponsard managed to bag himself an invitation to one of the top soirees. While glamour, a jewel heist and of course the movies have been grabbing the headlines this week ...


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Movie Review

John Carter [Blu-Ray]

John Carter [Blu-Ray]

John Carter, an ambitious science-fantasy spectacle based on Edgar Rice Burroughss 1912 serialized novel A Princess of Mars, is an awesome folly, a misguided project of genuinely enormous proportions that feels like exactly what it is: an impersonal product of franchise-hung ... ...

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  • Famed French composer Dutilleux dies at 97

    FRANCE'S Henri Dutilleux, whose modernist and impressionist works ranked him among the leading composers of the 20th century, has died in Paris aged 97, his family has announced. The internationally renowned Dutilleux, born in Angers in 1916, was a composer of predominantly instrumental works ranging from symphonies, orchestral pieces, violin concertos and piano music. His latest work ...

  • Los Angeles calls upon star French designers for Figaro opera

    By Eric Kelsey LOS ANGELES | Wed May 22, 2013 1:01pm EDT LOS ANGELES May 22 (Reuters) - Count Almaviva, muscles bulging and resplendent in white, struts like a peacock across the stage belting his baritone at his countess, who sits in a flowing red gown against a sparse backdrop of sleek, modernist lines. It is Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's "The Marriage of Figaro." But unlike ...

  • Germans French eye plan to create jobs for young

    Germany's labor minister, Ursula von der Leyen, said Wednesday that she and her French counterpart will meet in Paris next week along with the countries' finance ministers and European industry representatives to discuss the initiative. On July 3, Chancellor Angela Merkel plans to host a meeting of the 27 European Union nations' labor ministers and national labor agency heads in ...

  • No.7 out of French Open

    Argentina's world No.7 Juan Martin del Potro has pulled out of the French Open with an ongoing viral infection.Del Potro is the second top 10 ranked ATP player to withdraw from the second Grand Slam of 2013 following world No.2 Andy Murray's decision on Tuesday to pull out due to a back injury."This is a tough blow, because these are the events you dream of winning," Del ...

  • ECBs Weidmann tells France - Dont repeat budget mistakes

    PARIS (Reuters) - France must step up reforms to rein in its budget deficit, Bundesbank chief Jens Weidmann said in a magazine interview, urging Paris to avoid repeating "the mistakes of the past." The European Commission has proposed that EU ...

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