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Can Europe's richest family turn Paris into a city of football rivals?
AFP, Published on 22/04/2025
» PARIS - Paris has everything — stunning architecture and arguably the best food and fashion in the world. But the French capital lacks one essential element of a modern metropolis: it has no football rivalry.
Coming in hot in 2025
Guru, Nianne-Lynn Hendricks, Published on 31/12/2024
» To welcome 2025, here’s a round-up of what to look forward to in and out of the country we call home.
Boom time for menswear as Paris Fashion Week returns
AFP, Published on 15/01/2023
» PARIS - The fashion juggernaut returns to Paris this week, with Saint Laurent rejoining the line-up and menswear on a hot streak, even if the industry remains wary of economic headwinds.
Small name, big mission
Life, Noko, Published on 02/12/2022
» Despite its name meaning small, petit h is on a big mission.
In Canada's boreal forest, one man works to save caribou
AFP, Published on 15/11/2022
» PESSAMIT (CANADA) - Even though he lives in the middle of Canada's boreal forest, Jean-Luc Kanape can sometimes go weeks without seeing a single caribou. But for as long as he can remember, the animals have been part of his life.
Revisiting the 'Mona Lisa' theft
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 23/10/2022
» Oct 8 was the anniversary of the birth -- and the death -- of the Italian painter who made perhaps the biggest art repatriation blunder in history.
France back on track as Netherlands close on Nations League finals
AFP, Published on 23/09/2022
» PARIS: Kylian Mbappe starred as world champions France shrugged off injuries and off-field problems to beat Austria on Thursday, while the Netherlands won in Poland to close in on a place in next year's UEFA Nations League finals.
A cosmopolitan kingdom
Life, Thana Boonlert, Published on 18/08/2022
» A ferry sailed through the confluence of two rivers that form the heart of Bang Kacha, the ancient capital of Ayutthaya (1351-1767). Its gigantic fort was once the first sight of friends and foes. Remains of foreign settlements overlook the bank of the river, a reminder of how cosmopolitan the city was.
Writer puzzled by his literary prize
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 07/08/2022
» For African writers living in France, there is a dream they will never acknowledge publicly, a character says in Mohamed Mbougar Sarr's novel, The Most Secret Memory of Men. That dream -- "our shame, but also the glory we fantasise about" -- is to be praised by France and its literary establishment.
Simply perfection
Life, Vanniya Sriangura, Published on 27/05/2022
» Living up to the culinary eminence of its creator, Blue by Alain Ducasse was awarded a Michelin star within a year of opening in Bangkok in 2019.