David Beckham is left off Britain's Olympic soccer team
Baltimore Sun Thu, 28 Jun 2012 17:59 PM PDT
Beckham helped London beat out Paris to host the Games, and he had hoped to make the team, but Britain Coach Stuart Pearce does not choose him. Few athletes did more to bring the Olympic Games to London this summer than David Beckham. But now the former English national team captain has been told he's not invited to the party â€" at least not as a member of Britain's soccer team. |
US research team unveils spray-on battery
Straits Times Thu, 28 Jun 2012 17:40 PM PDT
PARIS (AFP) - A cutting-edge battery that can be spray-painted on just about any surface was unveiled on Thursday by a research team that tested it on everything from bathroom tiles to a beer mug. |
Braless Instinct! Sharon Stone Bares Her Boobs In Totally Sheer Top
RadarOnline.com Thu, 28 Jun 2012 17:34 PM PDT
By Radar Staff Apparently it is Sharon Stone ’s Basic Instinct to show off her assets! The 54-year-old actress left little to the imagination in Paris on Thursday night, baring her boobs in a totally see through top â€" and RadarOnline.com has photos of her outrageous fashion faux pas. PHOTOS: Sharon Stone Flaunts Her Assets In Totally Sheer Top Obviously so intentional that it’s hard to call it a ... |
France pulls plug on Internet forerunner Minitel
The Malaysian Insider Thu, 28 Jun 2012 17:33 PM PDT
PARIS, June 29 â€" Three decades after it launched, the Minitel â€" a made in France forerunner to the Internet that at its height was installed in nine million homes â€" will shut down for good tomorrow. Once at the cutting edge of technology, the Minitel allowed users in France to check the news, search phone directories, buy train and plane tickets, ... |
France's Strauss-Kahn, wife have separated: media
The Star Thu, 28 Jun 2012 17:24 PM PDT
PARIS (Reuters) - Disgraced former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn and his wife have separated, as his legal battles run on over a New York sex assault case and his alleged involvement with a prostitution ring, weekly magazine Closer reported on Thursday. |
French minimum wage rise turns sour for Hollande
The Star Thu, 28 Jun 2012 17:23 PM PDT
PARIS (Reuters) - French President Francois Hollande's decision to raise the minimum wage in the midst of a European austerity drive is backfiring against him as trade unions, workers and left-wing allies criticise the increase as too miserly. |
Breathalyzer maker lobbied for DWI law
UPI Thu, 28 Jun 2012 17:21 PM PDT
PARIS, June 28 (UPI) -- The head of a group that lobbied for a French law requiring drivers to carry self-breathalyzing kits also works for a maker of the device, a newspaper reports. |
Dominique Strauss-Kahn and wife Anne Sinclair separated
New York Daily News Thu, 28 Jun 2012 17:21 PM PDT
She stood by him when he was accused of attempted rape, but Dominique Strauss-Kahn's wife has finally kicked him to the curb. Anne Sinclair, heir to an art fortune, threw the scandal-scarred, skirt-chasing Socialist out of their Paris house a month ago, Reuters reported. |
Bid & Ask: The Deals of the Week
BusinessWeek Thu, 28 Jun 2012 17:08 PM PDT
A Carlyle co-founder buys Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation; Qatar snaps up hotels in Paris, Cannes, and Nice; and more |
Summer strings
The Battalion Thu, 28 Jun 2012 17:03 PM PDT
Texas Music Festival continues concert series I ncluding sounds from Paris to Australia and back to Berlin â€" all in one night â€" the Texas Music Festival brought an international atmosphere to College Station. ... |
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