The myriad smells are completely alluring - there’s the buttery scent of shallots being braised, the sweet smell of chicken being roasted and, from the patisserie kitchen below, the tantalising aroma of tarte tatin wafting up the stairs.
French President Nicolas Sarkozy is asking the UN to award French cuisine Unesco humanity heritage status.
A parliamentary fact-finding [...]

“I’m very concerned with the international situation and what’s happening in Tibet,” Rogge said Monday at a meeting of the IOC and national Olympic committees in Beijing.”The torch relay has been targeted. The International Olympic Committee has expressed its serious concern and calls for a rapid peaceful resolution in Tibet,” Rogge said in a brief [...]

BEIJING (Reuters) - At least two people have died in fresh protests in a Tibetan part of western China, reports said on Tuesday, as authorities made arrests in Tibet’s capital Lhasa in an effort to reassert control over the restive region.
State media said one police officer was killed and the exiled Tibetan Centre for Human [...]