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France Closes Schools Around Globe As It Braces For Cartoon Backlash

Huffington Post UK | Posted 20.09.2012 | UK

French schools in up to 20 countries have closed amid fears of a violent backlash against the publication of offensive cartoons of the prophet Muhamma...

French Magazine Publishes Cartoons Of The Prophet Muhammad

The Huffington Post UK | Ted Thornhill | Posted 19.09.2012 | UK

French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo has printed cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad, less than one year after being firebombed for running similar ca...

Injunction on Topless Kate Photos Is a French Farce

Stephen Clarke | Posted 18.11.2012 | Home
Stephen Clarke

Here in Paris, the most common reaction to the topless photos that I've seen has been a typically French squint. They furrow their brow, raise one side of their mouth as if to show off a newly capped incisor, and exhale noisily. The English-speaking equivalent of the expression would be "duh". The subtext is, what did you expect? The second a famous woman takes off her bikini top anywhere in France, she is going to hear the click of a camera and the patter of tiny fingers emailing the photo to a magazine editor.

Window Shopping For Single Women

The Huffington Post | Brogan Driscoll | Posted 05.10.2012 | UK Lifestyle

French online dating website has given a whole new meaning to the term "try before you buy". AdopteUnMec.com is embarking on a tour around France w...

'We Are Heartbroken': Family Of French Alps Shooting Victims Speak Out

PA/The Huffington Post UK | Posted 12.09.2012 | UK

The families of three Britons killed in a shooting spree in the French Alps said they were "heartbroken" by their deaths but "touched by the expressio...

Three People 'Found Shot Dead In A Car In Corsica'

Posted 12.09.2012 | UK

The bodies of three people have been found in a car on a French island, AFP reported. According to the news agency, the three had been found shot d...

French Police Search Attacked Family's UK Home

PA/The Huffington Post UK | Posted 08.09.2012 | UK

Police have begun their search of the family home of a couple shot dead with two other victims in the French Alps. A team of four French officers h...

French Alps Shooting: Four Officers Sent To Britain To Search Saad al-Hilli's Home

PA | Posted 07.09.2012 | UK

Police investigating the murder of four people who were gunned down in the French Alps have sent four officers to Britain to find out more about victi...

British OAP Jailed For Running 'Sophisticated' Cocaine-Dealing Operation

PA | Posted 07.09.2012 | UK

A 76-year-old drug dealer who flew to France in his own plane to transport cocaine to sell on the streets of the UK has been jailed for 18 years. G...

4-Year-Old Zeena Has Spoken To Police, Brother Denies Feud Over Money

The Huffington Post UK | Dina Rickman | Posted 07.09.2012 | UK

The four-year-old girl whose mother, father and grandmother were gunned down in a shooting in the French Alps this week has spoken to police. Frenc...

Police Hoping To Inteview Girl, 7, Over Family's Shooting

PA | Posted 07.09.2012 | UK

Investigators are hoping the seven-year-old British girl who survived the shooting of three members of her family will provide the key to solving the ...

Relatives Of Family Attacked In France To Be Reunited With Survivors

PA/The Huffington Post UK | Posted 07.09.2012 | UK

Relatives of two British sisters who survived the "savage" slaying of three members of their family in the French Alps will be brought to the country ...

French Alps Shooting In Pictures (SLIDESHOW)

Posted 06.11.2012 | UK

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Was Shooting Of British Family Car Jacking By Armed 'Bandits'?

PA/The Huffington Post UK | Posted 06.09.2012 | UK

The French Alps shooting is a grim reminder of the dangers facing Britons who drive abroad, driving experts have warned. Britons visit France in th...

'Norway Got What It Deserved' Says French Writer In Breivik Essay

The Huffington Post UK | Jessica Elgot | Posted 30.08.2012 | UK

A French essayist, who claims to have read mass-murderer Anders Breivik's 1,500 page manifesto, has said he believes Norway "got what it deserved." ...

Hidden Gems of Europe - Montpellier & Sete

Joanne Shurvell | Posted 27.10.2012 | UK Lifestyle
Joanne Shurvell

Although the coast of Languedoc-Roussillon isn't as obvious a holiday destination as the Cote d'Azur, it has just as much to offer with less crowds, even in peak season.

Francois Hollande Calls On Syrian Rebels To Form Government

Huffington Post UK | Felicity Morse | Posted 27.08.2012 | UK

France's President has called on Syrian opposition forces to form a provisional government, saying the council would be recognised by his country. ...

Gardener Charged With Murder Of British Woman Patricia Wilson In France

PA | Posted 27.08.2012 | UK

A gardener has been charged with murder after a British woman vanished from her home in south west France, according to reports. Patricia Wilson, 5...

French Pussy Riot Arrests Over Illegal Balaclavas

The Huffington Post UK | Jessica Elgot | Posted 19.08.2012 | UK

French demonstrators protesting against the jailing of Russian feminist punk band Pussy Riot have been arrested - because of the country's controversi...

Britain and Europe's Conspicuous Silence on the Destructive Legacy of Colonialism Part 2

Noam Schimmel | Posted 10.08.2012 | UK Politics
Noam Schimmel

The repression of genuine accounting with an individual or a nation's failures and violations of democratic values and human rights leads not only to a failure to acknowledge and wrestle with historical truth.

Brangelina To Wed This Weekend?

WENN | Posted 10.08.2012 | Home

Gossip loving locals in France are convinced Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie are set to wed at their Chateau Miraval home in the south of the country thi...

'We're Driving The French Mad'

The Huffington Post UK | Ned Simons | Posted 09.08.2012 | UK Politics

British success at the London Olympics is "driving the French mad", David Cameron has said. Team GB currently sits third in the medal table with 22...

Britain and Europe's Conspicuous Silence on the Destructive Legacy of Colonialism

Noam Schimmel | Posted 08.08.2012 | UK Politics
Noam Schimmel

Colonisation and its impact on the colonised is rarely a topic of sustained public conversation in Britain. It is not even a tangential topic. It is simply ignored, elided with very infrequent and brief exceptions such as the one prompted now by the case of Kenyan survivors of torture and other human rights abuses of British rule in Kenya.

Cap Estel, Eze - An exquisite hotel in a majestic setting

Emyr Thomas | Posted 27.09.2012 | UK Lifestyle
Emyr Thomas

You may have heard of Cap Ferrat and Cap d'Antibes, both exquisite destinations on the Cote d'Azur, but not many will have heard of Cap Estel, and therein lies one of Cap Estel's many beauties.

Francois Hollande Digs Cameron Over "Red Carpet" Empty Olympics Seats

The Huffington Post UK | Chris Wimpress | Posted 31.07.2012 | UK Politics

Francois Hollande has made a gentle dig at David Cameron's pledge to "roll out the red carpet" for French tax exiles, while criticising the number of ...