Activist defaces Monet painting to draw attention to global heating – video
A climate activist was arrested at the Musée d’Orsay in Paris after sticking a blood-red poster over Monet’s painting of poppy fields. The woman then...
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Thousands of Parisians take part in free picnic on the Champs-Élysées
Event aims to reverse decline in local people visiting boulevard, which has become hub for wealthy tourists and designer stores Thousands of people have gathered...
Olympic Games’ €1.4bn clean-up aims to get Parisians swimming in the Seine
Organisers expect 75% of identified bacterial pollution will be gone by the time the starting gun fires for the open water events Beside a sign...
France ‘investigating whether Russia behind’ graffiti on Holocaust memorial
Reports say investigators looking into possibility that Russian security services ordered vandalism in Paris France is investigating whether graffiti painted on the wall of Paris’s...
Taylor Swift debuts new tracks as she returns to The Eras Tour
Pop star thrills Paris crowds with songs from newest album The Tortured Poets Department Taylor Swift has added her newest album, The Tortured Poets Department,...
Super-rich spending up to $500,000 on exclusive Paris Olympics packages
Third-party hospitality packages are outlawed, yet agency part-owned by associates of Rafael Nadal and LeBron James promises access to top events as well as to...
A room of her own: Mona Lisa could be moved, says Louvre
New room would give thousands of daily visitors better experience, says museum president The Mona Lisa, the world’s most famous portrait, could get a room...
French students occupy University of Paris in pro-Palestine protest – video
Students at the University of Paris resumed their pro-Palestine demonstrations on Friday, two days after French police broke up a similar protest. Students at Sciences...
Aya Nakamura thanks fans for support over Olympics racism as she wins awards
French singer dedicates top prizes at Les Flammes ‘to all the blacks’ after backlash over rumoured Paris show The French pop star Aya Nakamura has...
The 1924 Paris Olympics saved the Games. Can this year’s event repeat that success? | David Goldblatt
Faced with competition from rival sporting events, the future of the Games hung in the balance. A century on, new hurdles are looming Paris 1924...
