Ex-candidate Segolene to run for French presidency
The Star Mon, 29 Nov 2010 14:11 PM PST
PARIS (Reuters) - Former Socialist contender for the French presidency Segolene Royal announced in a newspaper interview on Monday that she would make a new run in 2012. |
Consumer Goods Forum Declares Green Pledges
Supermarket News Mon, 29 Nov 2010 14:08 PM PST
PARIS â€" The Consumer Goods Forum here Monday announced two climate change initiatives, one aimed at ending deforestation, and the other focused on phasing out the use of refrigerant gases with high global-warming potential. |
Picasso treasure trove surfaces in France
Philippine Daily Inquirer Mon, 29 Nov 2010 13:58 PM PST
PARISâ€"Hundreds of unknown Pablo Picasso works worth tens of millions of euros have surfaced in France in the hands of a 71-year-old retired electrician who says they were gifts from the master. |
UPDATE 1-Areva capital hike talks continue-gov't source
Reuters UK Focus via Yahoo! UK & Ireland Finance Mon, 29 Nov 2010 13:48 PM PST
* Le Figaro says capital hike delayed until spring * France rejects Qatar conditions - newspaper (Adds background) PARIS, Nov 29 (Reuters) - Talks are continuing over aplanned capital increase at state-owned ... |
Electrician stuns art world with trove of Picassos
CNews Mon, 29 Nov 2010 13:43 PM PST
PARIS - Pablo Picasso was both hugely prolific and famously generous with his work, but was he enough of a free spirit to give hundreds of his early works â€" an invaluable collection â€" to his electrician? |
Staggering Picasso trove turns up in France
Kingston Daily Freeman Mon, 29 Nov 2010 13:40 PM PST
PARIS â€" Pablo Picasso almost never stopped creating, leaving thousands of drawings, paintings and sculptures that lure crowds to museums and mansions worldwide. Now, a retired electrician says that 271 of the master’s creations have been sitting for decades in his garage. |
Euro ‘saved’ amid scepticism
Gulf Times Mon, 29 Nov 2010 13:23 PM PST
Reuters/Berlin/Paris Germany and France declared yesterday that Europe had taken decisive action to save the euro by rescuing Ireland and laying the foundations of a permanent debt resolution system, but markets were unconvinced. |
Struggling Mao looks for salvation
The Japan Times Mon, 29 Nov 2010 13:17 PM PST
PARIS (Kyodo) Reigning world champion Mao Asada is set to hold crisis talks with coach Nobuo Sato after her season plunged to new depths at the Trophee Bompard in Paris at the weekend. Still struggling to adapt to her new tutor, Mao has endured a rotten start to the campaign, finishing a career-worst eighth at the season-opening NHK Trophy before a fifth-place finish at the Trophee Bompard ended ... |
'Empire Strikes Back' director Kershner dies in LA
Manila Bulletin Mon, 29 Nov 2010 13:14 PM PST
Film director Irvin Kershner (AFP file) PARIS (AFP) â€" US director Irvin Kershner, renowned for making the second Star Wars film, "The Empire Strikes Back", has died in Los Angeles, his goddaughter Adriana Santini told AFP on Monday. He was 87 years old. Kershner, who besides the 1980 sci-fi epic also directed Sean Connery as James Bond in "Never Say Never Again" (1983) and Peter Weller in ... |
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