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By Katell Prigent PARIS, France (AFP) — Ten people were arrested in a second night of protests in Paris over the killing by police of a Chinese father of five, an incident that has caused tensions with Beijing. Around 400 members of the Asian community and supporters of anti-racism groups gathered outside a police station in the northeast of the capital to again denounce the fatal shooting of Shaoyo Liu, 56, in his home two days […]
CHESSY, France (Reuters) — Disneyland Paris held a colorful parade to celebrate its 25th anniversary on Saturday (March 25) as classic characters like Minnie Mouse and Captain Hook waved from floats to the crowd below. The popular Disneyland tourist resort located in Chessy, just outside Paris, opened its doors on April 12, 1992 for the first time. It welcomes thousands of children and adults each year. Disneyland Paris, owned by Euro Disney, employs 15,000 ‘cast […]
PARIS, France (AFP) — The man shot dead at Paris’s Orly airport after attacking a soldier was under the influence of drugs and alcohol at the time, a judicial source said Sunday. “Toxicology tests carried out on Sunday showed an alcohol level of 0.93 grams per litre in his blood, and the presence of cannabis and cocaine,” the source said, a day after the incident at the French capital’s second-busiest airport. © Agence France-Presse
PARIS, France (Reuters) — One of the largest Beatles collections in France, including rare vinyl records, dolls and photographs, went on auction in Paris on Saturday (March 18) at the L’Hotel Drouot auction house. Among the 332 lots which were up for auction was the disc “Tony Sheridan and the Beatles 7: My Bonnie”, signed by Paul McCartney and George Harrison, with a 6,000 to 10,000 euros ($6,450 to $10,740) price tag. A lot of […]
by Guy JACKSON Agence France Presse PARIS, France (AFP) — Britain’s Prince William and his wife Kate will pay an official visit to Paris on Friday and Saturday, months before the 20th anniversary of the death of William’s mother Diana in a car crash in the French capital. The second-in-line to the throne and his spouse will meet President Francois Hollande and launch an initiative called “Les Voisins” (The Neighbors) designed to foster closer relations […]
PARIS, France (Reuters) — A rare Tintin drawing by Belgian cartoonist Herge from the ‘Tintin in America’ edition will soon be up for grabs at a Paris auction, and is estimated to fetch between 600,000 and 700,000 euros. Following an unexpected record sale of an original Tintin comic book drawing last November, which fetched 1.55 million euros, the Paris auction house Artcurial is set to hold a new auction of the rare drawing on April […]
PARIS, France (Reuters) — A dream collection of vintage cars and motorcycles was presented in Paris on Wednesday (February 8) ahead of a Bonhams auction, which coincides with Retromobile week, a fair that has made Paris a car collector’s capital. Over 100 cars, produced over a period ranging from the turn of the last century to the 1990s, were on display under the stately glassed roof of the Grand Palais. In 1901, the Grand Palais […]
by Pauline TALAGRAND / Adam PLOWRIGHT / Gersende RAMBOURG Agence France-Presse PARIS, France (AFP) – A French soldier patrolling at the Louvre museum shot and seriously injured a machete-wielding attacker on Friday, thrusting security and the terror threat back into the limelight three months before elections. Police held hundreds of tourists in secure areas of the renowned tourist attraction after the assailant was shot five times around 10:00 am (0900 GMT) in a public area […]
A picture taken on January 31, 2017 in Paris shows the Eiffel tower in a heavy fog. Ludovic MARIN / AFP
PARIS, France (AFP) — British designer Clare Waight Keller is to quit Chloe after six years, the French fashion house said Monday. The creator, who turned Pringle of Scotland from a rather staid knitwear maker into a fashion brand, has also helped push up sales at Chloe, best known for its floaty, romantic, 1970s-influenced clothes. Chloe said that since Waight Keller’s arrival the label has “enjoyed remarkable momentum and global development. “Her lightness of touch […]
PARIS, France (AFP) – Paris began its first experiment with driverless buses on Monday, with city officials saying they were eager to prepare for the coming “revolution” of autonomous vehicles. Two box-shaped electric vehicles capable of carrying around 10 people have been deployed — within the safety of a special lane — on a bridge connecting two railway stations to the east of the city centre. “Autonomous vehicles represent a revolution for every city on […]
by Katell PRIGENT Guy JACKSON Agence France Presse PARIS, France (AFP) — French police on Monday arrested 17 people, most of them with records for organised crime, over the robbery of US reality TV star Kim Kardashian in Paris last October, police sources said. Police swooped in the Paris region and the south of France after DNA was found at the luxury residence where Kardashian was tied up and robbed of her jewels at gunpoint, […]
