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Abortion pill inventor Etienne-Emile Baulieu dies aged 98
AFP, Published on 30/05/2025
» PARIS - French scientist Etienne-Emile Baulieu, known as the inventor of the abortion pill, died at the age of 98 at his home in Paris on Friday, his wife told AFP.
France honours slain AFP journalist
AFP, Published on 14/07/2023
» PARIS: France posthumously awarded AFP video journalist Arman Soldin, who was killed while working in Ukraine, the Legion d'Honneur (Legion of Honour) on Thursday.
Macron mulls stripping Putin of France's top honour
AFP, Published on 10/02/2023
» BRUSSELS - French President Emmanuel Macron said Friday he might strip his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin of France's top honour, but is waiting for the "right moment" to do so.
Punk laureate Patti Smith granted France's highest honour
AFP, Published on 22/05/2022
» As a child, punk-poet icon Patti Smith was instructed never to accept anything from strangers -- which meant one day she was forced to decline a campaign button she coveted and everyone else had.
Regine, disco pioneer and nightclub queen, dies at 92
AFP, Published on 02/05/2022
» PARIS: French singer and actress Regine, who laid claim to the invention of the modern discotheque and once ran a nightclub empire from Paris to Los Angeles, died on Sunday aged 92, her granddaughter told AFP.
Josephine Baker: France's adopted Black superstar immortalised
AFP, Published on 22/11/2021
» PARIS - Josephine Baker overcame the racism that she parodied in her famous banana skirt dance to become the world's first Black female superstar.
Josephine Baker to be first Black woman in France's Pantheon
AFP, Published on 22/08/2021
» PARIS - Josephine Baker, the famed French-American dancer, singer and actress who fought in the French resistance during WWII and later battled racism, will become the first Black woman to enter France's Pantheon mausoleum.
France honours beheaded teacher as judge questions suspects
AFP, Published on 21/10/2020
» PARIS: France will pay tribute Wednesday to a history teacher beheaded for showing cartoons of the Prophet Mohamed in a free speech lesson in a gruesome attack that has shocked the country and prompted a government crackdown on radical Islam.
Golden Age Hollywood star Olivia de Havilland dies at 104
AFP, Published on 27/07/2020
» LOS ANGELES: Olivia de Havilland, a two-time Oscar winner and one of the last links to Hollywood's Golden Age, died Sunday at the age of 104.
Golden Age Hollywood star Olivia de Havilland dies at 104
AFP, Published on 27/07/2020
» LOS ANGELES - Olivia de Havilland, a two-time Oscar winner and one of the last links to Hollywood's legendary Golden Age, died Sunday at the age 104, her publicist said.