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Paris Hilton breaks up with Benji Madden

Socialite heiress Paris Hilton has ended her 10-month romance with guitarist-boyfriend Benji Madden.

Is Prince William the cause behind Paris Hilton-Benji Madden split

Washington, Nov 21 : As Paris Hilton's publicist has confirmed that the socialite and rocker Benji Madden have called it quits, rumours are making rounds that Prince William might be the 'culprit' behind the split.

Paris Hilton tops Forbes

Melbourne, Nov 21 : Paris Hilton has topped Forbes.com's new list of 'Most Overexposed Celebrity'.

Australia braced for French backlash

France is eager to make up for two recent thrashings by Australia, while the Wallabies will go for a first win in eight years on French soil when the teams meet on Saturday.France lost 34-13 and 40-10...

All female run-off for French Socialists

France’s former presidential candidate Segolene Royal has won the first round vote in the battle to decide the divided French Socialists’ next leader. Royal took 42 percent of the vote, b...

Cotillard Lights Up Paris Night

Oscar winner Marion Cotillard and Paris Mayor Bertrand Delanoe bid welcome to the winter holidays this year with the annual lighting of the Champs Elysees. (Nov. 20)

Royal in run-off election to head French Socialist Party - Summary

Paris - Former French presidential candidate Segolene Royal beat out two other candidates in Thursday's election to head the Socialist Party but fell short of gaining a winning majority, French media ...

Paris Hilton and Benji Madden have split

Hilton publicist Alanna McCarthy said Wednesday that the two “remain very good friends.” She wouldn’t say more. Hilton and Madden have been photographed wearing rings with each other’s initial...

Gunn pleads guilty on robbery charge

One of three defendants in the Jan. 6 robbery of the Valero Food Fast in the 2800 block of N.E. Loop 286, changed his plea Wednesday and accepted a prison sentence for the crime. Kerria Gunn will rece...

French reveal case against Ottawa prof accused of Paris bombing

OTTAWA -- The French government's case that Ottawa university professor Hassan Naim Diab bombed a Paris synagogue in 1980 relies on extensive help from intelligence services to link him to the trail t...

Sarkozy rolls out France’s 20 bil. euro investment fund

MONTRICHARD, France -- President Nicolas Sarkozy on Thursday unveiled a 20 billion-euro investment fund to shore up key French companies hit by the economic crisis and protect them from foreign predat...

Air France-KLM profit plunges in second quarter

PARIS -- The Air France-KLM Group said Thursday its profit plunged in the second quarter as higher oil prices and financial charges weighed on the airlines’ earnings.

Details released in French bomb case

OTTAWA (AP) - French authorities allege an Ottawa university professor bought a motorcycle used in a bombing that killed four people and injured 20 at a Paris synagogue in 1980, according to court doc...

Cafe where immigrant culture and mainstream Paris meet

Photograph: Lara Marlowe PARIS LETTER: A cultural cafe in the Parisian suburb of Saint-Denis reflects the area's heritage as a melting pot of cultures and civilisations, writes Lara Marlowe&#16...

France forgets giants of British cinema

No wonder Peter O'Toole looks shocked: the prestigious Cahiers du Cinema has revealed its list of the 100 greatest films of all time – and not one of them was made here. John Lichfield reports

Teachers in France strike over job cuts

PARIS: Teachers across France went on strike yesterday to protest against plans to cut thousands of jobs in the education system, but the government vowed to press on with reforms it says are needed t...

French PM says Lebanon on "promising path"

French Prime Minister Francois Fillon talks to citizens at the French embassy in Beirut. Fillon urged Lebanon on Thursday to press ahead with the process of national reconciliation, saying a deal reac...

Europe rights commissioner concerned by France immigration policies

report [text] Thursday saying that "French detention and immigration policies risk reducing human rights protection." laying out the findings of his visit to France in May, Hammarberg expressed specif...

Duval eager for Team France return

Friday, November 21st 2008, 01:40 GMT Loic Duval is eager to return Team France to the top of the A1GP standings on his return to the series at Sepang this weekend. Duval, who finished runner-up in ...

The Eiffel Tower Celebrates its 120th Anniversary

The 120th anniversary of the Eiffel Tower was celebrated at the Guillaume at Bennelong, Sydney Opera House on Wednesday with an exquisite luncheon, ‘Un Dejeuner Parisien’ and the launch of...

French premier urges Lebanon to work towards national reconciliation

Beirut - Visiting French Prime Minister Francois Fillon urged Lebanon Thursday to work on the process of national reconciliation. "The agreement reached in Doha among the squabbling political factions...

Education reform plans trigger mass strike in France

Tens of thousands of people across France have been demonstrating against education reform plans. More than half of all teachers followed the call for strike according to unions – the interior m...

French Socialists vote for new party leader

French socialists are voting for a new party leader, bringing a much drawn-out process to a close. Segolene Royal is leading going into this final phase, after a vote on broad policies earlier this m...

Are Sales of French Wine Falling

“Le Beaujolais nouveau est arrivé” (The new Beaujolais has arrived). At one minute past midnight today, corks of the traditional Beaujolais nouveau wine popped in bars in little villages and tow...

Two women in close race to lead French opposition

Paris: French Socialists were choosing a new leader yesterday who could challenge President Nicolas Sarkozy and set the direction for the once-powerful but long-fractured French left. Two women headed...

Mitchell predicts open encounter with French

Wallabies winger Drew Mitchell says he expects a more open game against France than the 28-14 win over England at Twickenham last weekend. The Wallabies drew praise for the way they handled a suppose...

France drops security database over privacy fears

The French government has scrapped a security database that could have tracked anyone deemed a possible threat after protests by privacy crusaders. A decree by the prime minister says the database, c...

Simone Veil elected to join France

PARIS (Reuters) - Simone Veil, an Auschwitz survivor, a feminist, and the minister in charge when France legalised abortion in 1975, was elected on Thursday to the prestigious body that acts as guardi...

Rotterdam start for 2010 Tour de France

The 2010 Tour de France will start from the Dutch port city of Rotterdam, organisers ASO said on Thursday.The Tour's 97th edition will start on July 3 and the route will be unveiled in Rotterdam on De...

Map Reveals the Secrets Behind Place Names

It is difficult to find anyone these days who is not familiar with Middle Earth, J.R.R. Tolkien's fantastical world of orcs, hobbits and dwarves. A whole generation of film-goers is familiar with such...

French fund to help shield companies from takeovers

PARIS : Vowing to protect French industry from foreign predators and a worsening economic slump, President Nicolas Sarkozy introduced a €20 billion strategic investment fund on Thursday and anno...

France slashes auto jobs as crisis hits manufacturing

PARIS: France's flagship car manufacturer PSA Peugeot Citroen slashed 3,550 jobs Thursday as the global economic crisis cut a swathe through the world's auto sector. Peugeot's news came as German...

Priceless artefacts found in French vaults

Timepieces from a priceless collection stolen from a Jerusalem museum have been discovered in French bank vaults, more than two decades after the heist. The 43 watches and clocks will return to Israel...

France charges Rwanda aide amid Kigali protests

PARIS (AFP) – French judicial officials on Wednesday charged a longtime comrade-in-arms of Rwanda's president over an assassination in the run-up to the 1994 genocide, as anti-European prot...

European rights organization issues scathing report on French prison system

French prisons are dirty, overcrowded and run-down, the leading European human rights organization said in a scathing report issued Thursday. The Council of Europe's criticism of the French peni...

3 France packages, from $599 to $1,651

Get round-trip airfare on Air France, six nights' accommodations, round-trip hotel transfers, breakfast daily, a Bateaux Mouches river cruise, tickets to a Paradis Latin show, a city map, hotel taxes,...

Start the day with family, friends on fun run

Registration for the 33rd Annual Thanksgiving Day Turkey Trot scheduled Thanksgiving Day is under way at Paris Fitness & Aquatics, host for the event. This event kicks off at 8 a.m. Thursday, Nov. 27 ...

French fear November nights

A curious pair of concerns has arisen among French players ahead of their clash with Australia on Saturday: the weather and the time.Both wing Cedric Heymans and flanker Fulgence Ouedraogo had a good ...

EU Weighs Measures Against Mauritania - France

The move to impose sanctions came as a one-month deadline set by the European Union for Mauritania's ruling junta to free deposed president Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi expired, with no sign of a brea...

Striking French teachers labelled

Teachers demonstrate in Nantes. Photograph: Frank Perry/AFP/Getty Images Protesting French schoolteachers came under fierce attack today from the education minister, Xavier Darcos, who accused them ...

Sarkozy announces 20-billion-euro fund to aid French industry

PARIS, Nov. 20 (Xinhua) -- France will put 20 billion euros (25.2 billion U.S. dollars) into its strategic investment fund, established to protect key domestic industries, President Nicolas Sarkozy an...

Council of Europe again slams French prison conditions

Hammarberg's report, following a visit to France in May, is the latest in a series of such attacks by the pan-European rights watchdog, which charges that the treatment of French convicts is inhumane ...

French-Romanian carmaker Dacia halts production

BUCHAREST, Romania -- French-Romanian carmaker Dacia temporarily halted production on Thursday after the financial crisis led to a drop in car sales.The production halt at the factory in Mioveni, some...

France Dominates Europe’s Digital Library

BRUSSELS — France has never been shy about promoting its culture, so few were surprised when it took a close interest in a new digital library intended to showcase Europe’s history, lite...

43 rare clocks stolen from Israel found in France

JERUSALEM – Timepieces from a priceless collection stolen from a Jerusalem museum were discovered in French bank vaults, police said Wednesday, more than two decades after the heist.

Rwanda urges speedy French trial of presidential aide

Rwanda on Thursday urged a speedy trial of President Paul Kagame's aide -- who is charged in connection with a political assassination that is thought to have sparked the 1994 genocide. A French court...

She and boyfriend Benji Madden split after dating for 9 months

LOS ANGELES - Paris Hilton and her boyfriend of nine months, Benji Madden, have broken up. Hilton publicist Alanna McCarthy said Wednesday that the two "remain very good friends." She woul...

EU agrees agriculture policy reforms

The changes expand on the major reform of the EU's controversial Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) in 2003, pushing European farmers further into the world of supply and demand with a smaller safety ne...

Peter Matthiessen, Samuel J. Wurzelbacher, Paris Hilton

"Shadow Country," a thorough revision of a trilogy of novels from the 1990s. The author, 81, last won a National Book Award nearly 30 years ago. "I'm back!" exclaimed Matthiessen, who received th...

Paris Hilton and Benji Madden split, says publicist

Paris Hilton and Good Charlotte guitarist Benji Madden recently arrived at a special screening of the Lionsgate film, "Repo! The Genetic Opera," still looking like quite the couple.

Air France-KLM Hopes To Receive First A380 By End-09

told a press conference that according to the current plan, Airbus, the A380's manufacturer, was supposed to take delivery of the first A380 next autumn. "But the manufacturer is still fine-tuning i...

French Presidency gets agreement for minor reform of CAP farmers

Mariann FISCHER BOEL, Member of the European Commission and Michel BARNIER,French Minister for Agriculture and Fisheries, President of the European Council at a press conference on the CAP Health Chec...

French PM says Paris keeps "close watch" on Lebanese-Syrian ties

BEIRUT, Nov. 20 (Xinhua) -- French Prime Minister Francois Fillon has said that Paris is keeping "a close watch" on the resumption of normal ties between Beirut and Damascus, Lebanon's An-Nahar daily ...

Air France-KLM to cut as crisis bites

Europe's largest airline Air France-KLM has reported a 44% drop in operating profit in its second quarter and cut its full-year forecast. The airline had been seen as relatively sheltered from the ec...

Carla Bruni-Sarkozy says France is

London, Nov 20 : France's First Lady Carla Bruni-Sarkozy has said that her country is delighted that Barack Obama has won the U.S. presidential election.

No Formula 1 in France in 2010

A NEW Formula 1 track at Euro Disney will not be built, leaving the future of the sport in France in doubt.The track was the most likely candidate to host the 2010 French Grand Prix, following the can...

Paris Agrees On Joint Decision Making On French Polynesia Airports

The French state has committed itself to sharing the decision making process on the future of the Tahiti and Bora Bora airports with Tahiti's government and the respective communes of Faa'a and

Air France-KLM Still In Running For Alitalia Stake

to take control of Alitalia at some point in the future. The group of investors refloating Alitalia have still to select a foreign industrial partner for the financially troubled airline.

France, Netherlands to inspect Indonesia airliners

Inspectors from France and Netherlands will soon come to Indonesia to check safety standard of Indonesian airliners, Indonesian transport minister Jjusman Syafii Djamal said Thursday. Indonesian leadi...

French Short Course Records Downed Over Weekend

SAINT-DIZIER, France, November 19. OVER the weekend, three French short course records fell by the wayside at a meet in Saint-Dizier, France.Fred Bousquet clocked times of 22.96 and 51.00 in the 50 an...

Air France KLM 2Q Restated Net Profit -49%

for the "time" value of hedging instruments during the period, something that the airline hasn't done before. Restated to take this into account as well as other non-recurring items, notably a

Demonstrations in Kigali as Rwandan government official placed on remand in France

A senior Rwandan presidential aide has been placed on remand by a French court investigating her over the killing of a former President. Rose Kabuye was detained in Frankfurt last week and extradited ...

Ex-French P.M. Faces Slander Trial

(RTTNews) - Dominique de Villepin, former French Prime Minister, was ordered Wednesday to stand trial in a political smear campaign that targeted President Nicolas Sarkozy, a French judicial official...