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Paris stories: 122 news summaries

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CITY OF SLEEP?


 Au Revoir, Paris Nightlife 

Noise ordinances strangle once-legendary music and party scene

Nov 5, 09 10:33 AM CST
(Newser) - Paris, a city whose decadent nightlife was once the stuff of legend, is looking more like a museum these days: pretty, quiet, and closed at night. Gentrification of former party neighborhoods has brought an influx of residents unwilling to put up with noise; resulting noise ordinances have caused music venues... More »

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London • Berlin • Paris • Gentrification • noise violation • nightlife • electronic music

Green Joyride Sours
for Paris' Rental Bikes

Vandalism, theft hurt pioneering program

Oct 31, 09 9:32 AM CDT
(Newser) - A public bicycle-rental program launched in Paris in 2007 amid green good feeling has found reality to be a rough ride. Locals and tourists alike get unlimited access to Vélib’s fleet for about $1.50 a day, but some 80% of the $3,500 bikes have been stolen... More »

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crime • tourism • Paris • bicycles • green transportation • V?lib'

 Chirac Must 
 Stand Trial 
 on Corruption 
 Charges 

Allegations go back to his days as mayor of Paris

Oct 30, 09 9:15 AM CDT
(AP) - Former French President Jacques Chirac has been ordered to stand trial in an alleged corruption scandal dating back to his time as Paris mayor—a case that caught up with him in retirement once he lost the judicial immunity of France's highest office. A magistrate ordered Chirac, whose 12-year presidency... More »

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Jacques Chirac • France • corruption • Paris • mayor • corruption charges

'Prince Jean' Sarkozy Drops Bid for Post

Nearly-law-grad vows
to continue in politics, denies nepotism

Oct 23, 09 1:20 AM CDT
(Newser) - Nicholas Sarkozy's son Jean has dropped his bid to run France's most important business district. The 23-year-old law student, whose move to take over the $150,000 Paris job sparked accusations of nepotism and street protests, announced he didn't want a "tainted" victory. Sarkozy said his "passion for... More »

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Nicolas Sarkozy • Paris • nepotism • Jean Sarkozy

Post for Sarko Son Sparks
Howls of Protest

Law student tapped to run huge, lucrative business district

Oct 13, 09 4:32 AM CDT
(Newser) - It's not every day that a 23-year-old law student is tapped to manage the largest office park in Europe, but when you are Jean Sarkozy, anything's possible. The son of the French president, who already has a local government post, has the ruling party's official backing to run La Dé... More »

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Nicolas Sarkozy • France • Paris • nepotism • Jean Sarkozy • commercial real estate

SLIDESHOW

 Fashion Reality Check: 
 No One Wears Just Lingerie 

Fashion Week's underwear looks leave a lot to be desired for real women

Oct 9, 09 12:49 PM CDT
(Newser) - The lingerie-inspired looks currently abounding on the Paris runways make a person wonder: What woman would really leave the house wearing “micro miniskirts, transparent blouses, pointy Mad Men bras, and panties worn as shorts”? The looks “reveal how hard the industry is struggling to grab... More »

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fashion • Paris • Fashion Week • lingerie • Jay-ZTV • designer fashion

SLIDESHOW

 Paris Fashion Week 
 Plays it Safe 

Designers are tamed by recession fears

Oct 8, 09 12:30 PM CDT
(Newser) - Thanks to the recession, “disciplined good taste” reigned on the Paris runways this week, leading Bloomingdale’s fashion director to dub the season “terrific, from a commercial point of view, but not so much so that it’s safe and boring.” Guy Trebay begs to differ. “... More »

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fashion • Paris • runway • Fashion Week • fashion designer • fashion industry • Jay-ZTV • designer fashion

FASHION WEEK SLIDESHOW

 Yojhi Daughter Limi 
 Goes Big in Paris 


Sep 30, 09 11:49 AM CDT
(Newser) - The fourth and final leg of the spring fashion shows began today in Paris, and the Daily Telegraph weighed in from the sidelines of Limi Feu's hot-pink carpet. The daughter of Yohji Yamamoto dressed models (including a Yorkshire terrier) in mostly oversize black-and-white clothes: "drop-crotch, cropped trousers; a series... More »

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fashion • Paris • Fashion Week • Limi Feu

TRAVEL

 Europe's Sleaziest 
 Tourist Destinations 

From Paris to Athens, avoid (or enjoy) these sex-and-drugs zones

Sep 5, 09 6:13 PM CDT
(Newser) - Ah, Europe, home of landmark cafés, glorious historic churches—and stinking, dangerous red-light districts rife with hookers, drug dealers, and pickpockets. Correspondents for the Times of London highlight the continent's most tawdry areas.
  • Reeperbahn, Hamburg: Germany's decorous port town turns as seedy as it gets here. Pimps fight
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travel • prostitution • pornography • Amsterdam • Paris • drug dealing • Prague • Athens • pimp • Hamburg

 Paris Piss Brigade 
 Targets Urine Sauvage 

Task force strives to stop Parisians spraying city with urine

Sep 1, 09 3:32 AM CDT
(Newser) - A Paris task force charged with enforcing good behavior is finding human urine tougher to get off the streets than poodle poop, the Wall Street Journal reports. Members of the elite Brigade des Incivilités—Bad Behavior Brigade—can ticket offenders for everything from littering to handing out fliers, but... More »

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France • Paris • public urination • anti social behavior

(Newser) - "A world of slime without human form": that was how Victor Hugo once described the Seine, the murky, polluted river that divides Paris in two. Yet recent efforts to clean up the river, from skimming the surface to pumping it with oxygen, have led to a resurgent fish population... More »

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pollution • France • salmon • fish • fishing • Paris

(Newser) - Mortified visitors can't believe it when continental pools insist that men wear tiny, tight Speedo swimsuits, writes Angelique Chrisafis in the Guardian. An Irish journalist was recently hauled out of a French pool and could only return in an "unbelievably skimpy" pair of Speedo trunks that were "bloody... More »

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France • hygiene • swimming • Paris • swimming pool • Speedo • swimming trunks

(Newser) - Eagle-eyed Parisians may have noticed a bizarre tricycle rolling through the streets of late, equipped with cameras pointing in seemingly every direction. The dorky-looking vehicle and its rider are on a mission from Google, to create 3D maps of every nook and cranny of the City of Lights for Google’... More »

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Google • Paris • Google Maps • Google Street View

(Newser) - A bare-chested Sharon Stone has hit French newsstands, Fox News reports. The 51-year-old actress poses topless and in bondage gear on the cover of Paris Match. Stone, who memorably revealed another part of her anatomy in Basic Instinct, says posing nude is easy; it just depends on motivation.... More »

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entertainment • France • Paris • topless • Sharon Stone • actress • magazine cover


 Best Cities  
 for Good Eats 

Local cuisine is ranked

Aug 5, 09 1:30 PM CDT
(Newser) - Paris is for lovers—food lovers. The city came in first on a Forbes list of the world’s best cities for eating well, based on a 2009 survey ranking 50 cities. Notably absent from the top 10 are New York and London, which don’t boast much of... More »

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food • Mexico City • Hong Kong • Beijing • Rome • cuisine • Paris • Tokyo • Milan • Barcelona • Madrid • Shanghai • Jay-ZTV • local food

 'What I Did Over Summer 
 Break,' by Sasha, Malia 

From Kremlin to Paris and slave port, first kids get quite an education

Aug 2, 09 11:56 AM CDT
(Newser) - Sasha and Malia Obama might not be in school, but their summer vacation has been anything but lazy—the girls have seen the Eiffel Tower, the Kremlin, and Monticello as part of what the first lady calls “Camp Obama." And though there’s been plenty of fun, such... More »

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Barack Obama • Michelle Obama • family • Kremlin • Paris • vacation • Ghana • Obama administration • Malia Obama • Sasha Obama • Obama family

(Newser) - Looking to vacation in a spot that inspired your favorite novel? USA Today asks travel expert Melissa Biggs Bradley about the best hotels to connect physically with the literature.
  • The Resort at Paws Up, Greenough, Mont.: "The Blackfoot River, which runs through this 37,000-acre ranch,
... More »

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entertainment • travel • New York City • Montana • literature • Paris • hotel • Key West • Edith Wharton • Simone de Beauvoir • Ernest Hemingway • Jay-ZTV • Oscar Wilde • Herman Melville • Gertrude Stein • Norman Maclean • Lennox, Mass.

(Newser) - Alberto Contador finished a respectable fourth in today’s stage of the Tour de France, giving him an all-but-certain lock on first place overall, Reuters reports. Only tomorrow's ride remains, and riders traditionally don't jockey for position on the final day. Lance Armstrong, meanwhile, rode well and will likely keep... More »

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cycling • Paris • Tour de France • Alberto Contador • Lance Armstrong • Andy Schleck

(Newser) - Tourism is down in the City of Lights, and the Paris tourist board thinks the city’s unfriendly reputation is to blame, Reuters reports. So it's begging the city’s populace to smile more, and has even recruited “smile ambassadors” to greet visitors near popular destinations. “We have... More »

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tourism • Paris

Teenage Air Crash Survivor Reunited With Family

French gov't flies 14-year-old to Paris

Jul 2, 09 4:34 AM CDT
(AP) - The young girl believed to be the only survivor of Tuesday's Indian Ocean plane crash flew back to Paris today, to the waiting arms of her father and siblings. Bahia Bakari, 14, returned to France alongside a government minister and other French officials. The other 151 people on Yemenia flight... More »

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France • plane crash • Paris • air disasters • survivors • disaster • Yemenia Air • Bahia Bakari

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