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Un hiver au coin du feu - TF1 Le journal de 13h
Belves, in the Dordogne, gets ready for winter (video from TF1)
Prisons: life behind bars - France 24
In France, one prisoner commits suicide every three days. FRANCE 24 went behind the scenes of this hidden world to bring you previously unseen footage of punishment cells. Our reporter met both prisoners and guards.
French iPhone user seeks probe into 'explosion' - France 24
A French businessman who claims the screen of his iPhone shattered spontaneously has asked a court to appoint an independent expert to investigate the device's safety, his lawyer has said.
Sarkozy: No place for burqas in France - AP
French President Nicolas Sarkozy says there is no place for full face and body veils such as the burqa, or for the debasement of women, in France.
Goncourt prize winner NDiaye stands by Sarkozy 'police state' comments - France 24
French-Senegalese author Marie NDiaye, who last week won France's top literary prize, the Goncourt,says she stands by her comments about President Nicolas Sarkozy creating the "atmosphere of a police state" in France
Bernard Laporte: French cabinet are 'cowards' - Telegraph
Bernard Laporte the French rugby legend turned sports minister has branded his former cabinet colleagues condescending 'cowards' who treated him like a 'country bumpkin'.
'Rogue trader' Kerviel to face trial after top court rejects appeal - France 24
France's highest appeal court has dismissed former trader Jérôme Kerviel's bid to delay his trial over massive trading losses at French lender Société Générale, which the bank says were due to unauthorised deals carried out by the then junior trader.
French lesbian wins adoption case - BBC
A court in eastern France grants a lesbian nursery school teacher the right to adopt a child, ending a 10-year legal battle.
Yves Saint Laurent auction: items from Normandy hideaway up for sale - Telegraph
Giant chandeliers, a billiard table and even pots and pans went on show on Tuesday at Christie's in Paris in the second - and more homely - installment of the Yves Saint Laurent-Pierre Bergé "sale of the century".
Love isn't in the air as Paris hosts first 'divorce fair' - Telegraph
Paris, once known as the city of romance, might need to rethink its image after thousands have flocked to French capital's first divorce fair.
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