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 [...]
The sharp black suits, upswept chignons and click-clack of high heels could have been the opening steps of an Yves Saint Laurent fashion show. But instead of glossy red lips, there were red-rimmed eyes as the Parisian worlds of fashion, art and politics turned out to say farewell to the towering creative figure of 20th-century [...]
Local governments are very much political beasts here in France and voting often reflects the feelings of the nation towards its central government.
Consequently, the mayoral hopefuls linked to President Nicolas Sarkozys centre-right party took a bit of a hammering in several major centres, including Toulouse — the great southern heart of rugby in France.
Toulouse embraced [...]
“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 [...]
An elaborate BBC video of flying penguins topped a rich offering of spoofs in Britain that included Gordon Ramsay and a full-page advert from BMW.
The Independent reported that expletive-spouting TV chef Ramsay was banning swearing in all his restaurants after Australian authorities refused an application for him to set up an eatery on the grounds [...]
The former model and wife of President Nicolas Sarkozywas dressed throughout her trip in a30 thousand pound (NZ$75,000) wardrobe provided by French fashion house Christian Dior.
The Telegraph newspaper called her %26lsquo;French fashions secret weapon and said she organised her State Visit wardrobe with the precision of a commander planning a military campaign.
Lucy Yeomans, editor of [...]
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 [...]
President Nicolas Sarkozy’s wife Carla Bruni-Sarkozy impressed
fashion experts with her restrained glamour as the French
presidential couple arrived in Britain for a state visit.
There was agreement that she looked demure and dignified in a
high-necked grey coat, matching hat, black belt and black gloves,
on the day a nude photograph from her modelling days appeared in
some British newspapers.
“My [...]
Italian farmers said their pasta and cheese could easily see off a challenge posed by President Nicolas Sarkozy at the Paris farm show on Saturday to get French food an unprecedented place on the UNESCO list, which so far applies to places.
Italy can respond to their foie gras, armagnac, soupe a loignon and escargots (duck [...]
