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Vibrant Marseille the inspiration for Moussu T on the move
Mixing influences from the Maghreb to the Caribbean with a revival of the Occitan language, the Marseillais band Moussu T et lei Jovents offer a thrilling musical melting pot.
You thought Iraq was a mess? Just visit poor little Belgium
Belgium may not have a proper government in place, but that seems to matter little in practical terms for the average citizen.
Chirac attacks his successor as French president, 'arrogant' Sarkozy
Jacques Chirac's latest memoirs call Nicolas Sarkozy 'highly strung, impetuous, overflowing with ambition', with 'no doubts about anything, himself in particular'.
Monaco puts on the glitz for its royal wedding spectacle
Everyone knows the royal wedding will be a glamorous event. No one is quite sure how much income it will generate.
Joan Baez is still passionate about causes close to her heart
At 70, Joan Baez is still campaigning and singing about the causes that have influenced her music since the 1960s.
Tests at organic farm for deadly E coli prove negative so far
Despite initial confident assertions on Sunday that the probable source of an outbreak of the E coli bacterium that has so far killed 22 people, had been found at an organic farm in Lower Saxony, officials said yesterday that of 40 samples taken, tests on 23 had proved negative.
G8 leaders fulsome in pledges to Egypt and Tunisia but time will tell
The international community will study how wisely fledgling Arab democracies will spend the US$40bn (Dh147bn) economic windfall.
A bizarre double standard as France agonises over DSK
France, often considered the birthplace of the notion of human rights, has inexplicably switched the roles of apparent victim and apparent aggressor in the Dominique Strauss-Kahn affair.
G8 countries 'ready to offer the help needed' to Arab Spring countries, says UK's Cameron
World's leading industrial nations call G8 on the president of Yemen, Ali Abdullah Saleh, to stand down to end the intense fighting that has erupted in the country.
France joins US in urging G8 to back Arab Spring with financial support
France and US see duty for world's top economies to put aside their own financial problems and come up with massive sums in aid for countries such as Tunisia and Egypt, to ensure political gains are not destroyed by descent into economic crisis.
Strauss-Kahn affair splits France as debate looks at his past and the moral future
As serious concerns rise about what is now suspected of the conduct of the former IMF chief towards women after his arrest in New York on an attempted rape charge, there is intense debate in France on how the private indiscretions of public figures should be treated in the future.
After Strauss-Kahn, 'code of silence' may no longer protect French politicians
'Respect' of private life of public figures that keeps affairs out of news described as 'a figleaf for journalistic cowardice' as commentator declares ' Dominique Strauss-Kahn wouldn't have lasted five minutes in Britain, America or Sweden.'
Strauss-Kahn arrest 'a set-up', say 6 out of 10 French
Nation dismayed at public humiliation of presidential hopeful, held in jail in New York and accused of rape attempt on hotel maid.
French socialists looks for new presidential candidate after Strauss-Kahn arrest
After the arrest of Dominique Strauss-Kahn, a potential presidential frontrunner for allegedly trying to rape a hotel chambermaid in New York, the Socialists in France have launched a desperate battle to limit the electoral fallout.
'Dirty tricks' claim as IMF chief Strauss-Kahn held on sex charge
The head of the International Monetary Fund, a man widely tipped to replace Nicolas Sarkozy as the next French president, has been arrested and accused of attempting to rape a 32-year-old chambermaid in his $3,000 suite at a hotel near Times Square in New York.
