News Ham Bone Express offers fast-action fun
The Paris News Thu, 01 Oct 2009 18:15 PM PDT
Where else can you see Oprah Hamfry square off against Brad Pigg but at pig races during the Red River Valley Fair? He was prepared Paris High School senior Jonathan Crawford was focused on auditions Saturday, never dreaming he might need to draw on another set of skills. |
All French banks will close tax haven units
AsiaOne Thu, 01 Oct 2009 17:58 PM PDT
PARIS, FRANCE - All French banks will begin taking steps in March to close their branches and subsidiaries in countries deemed to be tax havens by the OECD, the deputy head of the French banking federation said on Thursday. |
Credit Mutuel repays state aid: source
AsiaOne Thu, 01 Oct 2009 17:58 PM PDT
PARIS, FRANCE - French bank Credit Mutuel repaid the French state on Thursday 1.2 billion euros ($2.5 billion) which the group had received to help it withstand the global finance crisis, sources at the finance ministry said Thursday. |
French minister doubts Polanski will get fair trial
The Malaysian Insider Thu, 01 Oct 2009 17:28 PM PDT
PARIS, Oct 2 â€" France’s Culture Minister Frederic Mitterrand questioned yesterday whether film director Roman Polanski would get a fair hearing from the US justice system, which is seeking his extradition on a 32-year-old sex case. The “Chinatown†director, 76, was arrested in Switzerland on Sunday at the request of the United States for having sex with a 13-year-old girl in 1977. He had fled ... |
Washington Editor
BioWorld Thu, 01 Oct 2009 17:18 PM PDT
In its first major deal, Merrimack Pharmaceuticals Inc. has granted rights to its monoclonal antibody MM-121 to Paris-based drug and vaccine maker Sanofi-Aventis Group SA in exchange for $60 million up front and a potential $470 million in milestones. |
Paris keeps it raw and sexy with short hemlines
Chattanooga Times Free Press Thu, 01 Oct 2009 17:11 PM PDT
Galdiatrixes in minidresses that looked like they were made from the skins of freshly vanquished crocodiles and models that scintillated like human disco balls had the run of Paris’ catwalks on Thursday as the City of Light’s spring-summer 2010 collections moved into day two. |
Art in Paris: Big Sister is watching you
Independent Thu, 01 Oct 2009 16:35 PM PDT
They peer, sadly or defiantly or joyously, from the ancient quays like the eyes of Big Brother, or rather the eyes of Big Sister. The whole circumference of the elegant 17th-century Ile Saint-Louis in the river Seine is being transformed this week into an immense photo gallery of blown-up eyes. Even the bridges linking the island to the right and left banks of Paris will, by tomorrow night ... |
Multinationalism in Fashion’s Tribes
New York Times Thu, 01 Oct 2009 16:31 PM PDT
In terms of a concentration of nations and cultures, Paris fashion shows are a global forum to rival the G-2o. |
Today's babies could live to 22nd century: study
AFP via Yahoo! Canada News Thu, 01 Oct 2009 16:29 PM PDT
PARIS (AFP) - More than half of the babies born today in rich countries will live to 100 years if current trends of life expectancy continue, a study appearing in the medical journal The Lancet said on Friday. |
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