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Police say a man with an automatic rifle opened fire on a car near a Paris train station, killing one man and wounding two others.
Given that his last romance ended with a sentence of six months of community labor and five years probation, it’s no surprise that singer Chris Brown hasn’t been lucky in love lately. Just don’t get the wrong idea. Any dating dry spell since Brown’s February attack on ex-girlfriend Rihanna is strictly due his choice to “chill,” rather than a lack of willing women.
Veterans of the French Resistance have joined President Nicolas Sarkozy in a ceremony marking the 65th anniversary of the liberation of Paris from the Nazi occupation.
The verdict is in: Even if Paris Hilton's film "Pledge This!" bombed big-time, she won't have to fork over $8.3 million sought by movie investors because of it.
Parisians and tourists, relax. That goofy-looking tricycle equipped with loads of high-tech equipment roaming the streets is not some mad scientist's invention on the rampage.
Families headed for the beach in the landlocked French capital on Monday for this year's launch of Paris Plages, which turns the Seine's urban riverbanks into sandy shores complete with palm trees and lounge chairs.
Paris Hilton repeatedly fussed with her hair and makeup in a federal courtroom Friday, sported six-inch stiletto heels and a black dress and amused the judge with a little wave on the way to the witness stand.
China expressed its indignation Tuesday at an honor given to the Dalai Lama by the city of Paris, saying it would seriously harm Beijing's relations with France.
Michelle Obama, whom French fashionistas regard as the best-dressed American first lady since Jackie Kennedy, lived up to her sartorial reputation during her trip to Paris, sporting a wardrobe of fashion-forward classics by top American designers.
Ah, Paris. The city of love. And the city of this week's presidential date night.
People gawked and cameras clicked as the Obamas cut a wide figure through the French capital even while confined to a presidential motorcade. It was more personal for the few kept not so distant — the restaurant owner who "saw God," the chauffeur reveling in a "magnificent mission."
A judge in Miami won't throw out a lawsuit claiming Paris Hilton didn't live up to her promotion contract for the 2006 movie "Pledge This!"
Paris Hilton may seem like the ultimate party girl, but she and her handlers swear she's really a globe-trotting workaholic who relentlessly plugs her projects and products.
French President Nicolas Sarkozy has unveiled an ambitious, costly new plan to rethink the structure of Paris and its troubled suburbs.
Triple Olympic gold medalist Usain Bolt has agreed to run in the Golden League track meet in Paris this summer for his first competitive appearance in France.
Amelie Mauresmo defeated Jelena Jankovic 6-2, 0-6, 6-1 Saturday in the Open GDF Suez semifinals to set up a meeting with Elena Dementieva, who advanced after top-ranked Serena Williams withdrew with of a knee injury.
Gas at $1.65 per gallon. Cruises for $50 a day (or less). And hotels that are throwing in everything from complimentary breakfast to discount massages. Will 2009 turn out to be the best travel year ever — or will the miserable economy have us all hiding beneath our beds with what little money we managed to get under the mattress before it all went to hell?
Demonstrators rallying in support of protesters in Greece scuffled with police and spilled onto the Champs-Elysees Friday, partly blocking the capital's most famous avenue.
Most actors tend to fall into one of two categories: those who loathe watching themselves on screen, and those who don’t. Jennifer Aniston, it would seem, falls staunchly in the latter category.
While it’s only been nine months since Jennifer Lopez gave birth to twins Max and Emme, baby-bump watchers may want to keep the singer in their sights. According to , Lopez and proud papa Marc Anthony are already planning to broaden their brood.
As the race to offer the first commercially viable electric car charges up, automakers hoping to cash in on environmental concerns displayed a slew of models at the Paris Motor Show on Friday.
Auto executives agree: their industry is headed into a giant storm.
Critics of Afghanistan need to look in mirrorPARIS -- U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton swept into Kabul last Thursday to rain on Afghan President Hamid Karzai's second-term inauguration parade.
Women banned from wearing trousers in Paris A decree banning women from wearing trousers in Paris is still technically in force, it emerged on Monday, making the laissez-faire French capital theoretically stricter than hardline Sudan in the fashion stakes.
The Paris Review - BooksThe best of The Paris Review in hardcover and paperback. For more information about a book, or to purchase a book, click the book title.
For Europe, US Is the Country That Cries WolfPARIS - Philip Gordon, the American assistant secretary of state for Europe and Eurasia, visited his European clients earlier this month in order to ask for more European cooperation.
Plastiscines - Zut alors! Bébé rock est arrivéThe NME describes them as "four super-extra-hot French girls with fat, chunky riffs and brilliant new wave pop tunes, they are literally too perfect to be true" while Music Week claims they could "pick up where the Bangles left off".
Major French smear trial closesThe trial of former French PM Dominique de Villepin, accused of conspiring to damage Nicolas Sarkozy's 2007 presidential bid, has ended. Defence lawyers in Paris made their final arguments in the highly-charged case on Friday, and a verdict is due on 28 January.
Exploring the Sinister Catacombs of the City of LightBy the light of torches, candles or miners lights, haunting scenes centuries old appear to unfold. Mud-caked galleries, abandoned quarry caverns and even chambers containing human bones throw up their secrets.
'Too fat' teen model spotlights fashion's dark sideHow thin is too thin? Teenage model Alexandra Michael describes the health-threatening consequences of trying to accommodate the fashion industry's obsession with skinny chic.
'Too fat' teen model spotlights fashion's dark sideHow thin is too thin? Teenage model Alexandra Michael describes the health-threatening consequences of trying to accommodate the fashion industry's obsession with skinny chic.
Cern physicist admits links with al-QaidaFrenchman of Algerian origin corresponded online with a contact in north Africa's al-Qaida branch
Researchers claim Jim Morrison's ghost picture is NOT a fakeTravelling American rock historian Brett Meisner decided, one day in 1997, to stop by his grave at the Père Lachaise cemetery in Paris to pay respects to his hero. As he did so, he asked his assistant to take a souvenir photograph.
France's art lovers and gastronomes are choking: McDonald's restaurant to open at the Louvre Lovers of France's two great symbols of cultural exception – its haute cuisine and fine art – are aghast at plans to open a McDonald's restaurant and McCafé in the Louvre museum next month.
Immigrant Muslims in ParisAnyone wanting to understand the situation of Muslims in Europe should visit Belleville. The rundown Parisian neighbourhood just east of the city centre is packed with couscous restaurants, Islamic bookshops and French citizens of Arab origin.
Even the French think Barack Obama is weak - UK TelegraphIt is shameful when the White House is accused of betrayal by close allies in eastern and central Europe, but utterly humiliating when even the Elysee Palace thinks the United States has been transformed from a lion to a lamb in the face of mounting global threats.
BBC NEWS | Michael Jackson's mother to get $1m a yearCourt papers released in Los Angeles have revealed Michael Jackson's mother will receive more than $1m (£606,000) a year from the singer's estate. The money is to be used to support Katherine Jackson and Michael Jackson's three children.
Paris: pervert capital of the world?Paris may be the city of love but it is also the capital of perverts. To experience this, you simply need to be female and walk down the street. You're almost guaranteed to get your daily dose of dirty old men and if you live on the Left Bank, you really don't need to go far.
Paris' Moulin Rouge Gets a MakeoverThe winners of the Paris 2009: Dance School for Moulin Rouge competition have been announced.
Time Out's Top Ten cities in the worldThe article is three pages long, and I accidentally seeded the second page. If you want to start at page one, click here.
Claim: Sarkozy has height limit for staffersPresident Nicolas Sarkozy is so sensitive about his height that his aides "cast" small women to appear beside him in public, according to Belgian television.
One way - but which? Feuding mayors designate the same road as one way, but in different directions... Two feuding mayors have taken their anger to the streets by declaring the same road one way - but in opposite directions. The worrying spat now threatens the safety of all those using the busy thoroughfare...
Is Islamic Terrorism Reactive or Proactive? In the conventional politically correct narrative, terrorism is a kind of desperate activism taken in reaction to oppression or some form of action taken against it. So for example, Osama bin Laden carried out 9/11 in reaction to US foreign policy.
'Beautiful' blonde teenager, 17, charms her way into high-security area of Paris bank - then pulls a gunA beautiful blonde teenager charmed her way into the high security area of a bank in the heart of a Paris tourist district before allegedly pulling out a gun.
Muslim woman wearing 'burkini' banned from Paris swimming pool - TimesFrance's struggle with Islamic dress has moved into the swimming pool after a 35-year-old woman was banned from bathing in her "burkini", a head-to-toe swimsuit.
Woman attacks Mona Lisa A Russian tourist sparked a security alert when she threw a mug at the Mona Lisa, the world's best-known painting, officials at Louvre Museum in Paris have revealed.
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