World news about “Lyon” published by euronews.
The power of loveThousands of people paraded this weekend through several European cities to celebrate Gay Pride and calling for same-sex marriage to be legalized. (Photo… 17/06/2013
Europe’s emergency services simulate disaster in Lyon A number of firsts currently going on in France’s second city, Lyon, where large-scale simulations of a number of disaster scenarios are being carried… 13/06/2013
Old computer, new life The curse of technological innovation is increasing product obsolescence. In 1995, the average life span of a computer was seven years – now it is two… 11/06/2013
Anti-fascist demonstrators in France denounce fatal attack on student Several demonstrations have taken place in France following the death in Paris of a young left-wing activist in an attack blamed on skinheads. Thousands… 07/06/2013
Focusing on the future These days cameras tend to be omnipresent, especially at important moments in our lives. They capture images our holidays, parties, or just everyday… 21/05/2013
Briton admits killing children in France Police say a British man has admitted killing his two young children in the French city of Lyon. The 48-year-old was arrested on Saturday. Officers say the… 20/05/2013
Lyon Roma squat fire kills 3 Two women and a 12-year-old child are dead following a fire at a squat in Lyon where Roma people had been living. Around 200 Roma gypsies had made the… 13/05/2013
Walls which tell stories The walls of Lyon tell stories; they transport you through time and space, weaving tales and illustrating myths. When it comes to murals the French city is… 22/04/2013
Getting animated at Cartoon Movie in Lyon Cartoon Movie is a co-production forum held in the French city of Lyon, aiming to create partnerships and raise funds for European animated films. More than… 12/03/2013
When English football fans come to town – nocomment Supporters of English Premier League team Tottenham Hotspurs descended on the UNESCO World Heritage site of Lyon’s Old Town on Thursday. Some Spurs fans had… 22/02/2013
Light artists commemorate the saving of Lyon Lyon is lit up. The city in the south east of France is commemorating the day in the 1800s it was saved from the plague. History records the Virgin Mary… 07/12/2012
Lyon lit up for la Fête des Lumières – nocomment The yearly “Festival of Lights” (fête des lumières) started today in Lyon, with lights installations placed strategically around the city. More than 3 million… 06/12/2012
Follow the Innovation Road The latest environmental technologies came under the spotlight at the Pollutec exhibition in France. A special section called Innovation Road was devoted to… 04/12/2012
Pollutec, shopwindow for a cleaner world At the recent Pollutec exhibition in Lyon well over 2,000 individuals and companies from all over the world showed off the latest technology for a cleaner… 03/12/2012
The alpine tunnel dispute Soldiers and armed police patrol the woods, the region’s walls sport angry-looking graffiti. Welcome to the Suse valley in Italy, where a transalpine rail… 30/11/2012
The serious business of Serious Games Serious Games use computer technology for teaching and training purposes in a variety of fields. Developers claim they are revolutionaly tools to help people… 30/10/2012
María Pagés brings ‘Utopia’ to Lyon The Nuits de Fourvière Festival in Lyon, France welcomed flamenco dancer extraordinaire María Pagés to its ancient roman amphitheatre to showcase the… 27/07/2012
Four regions weather the economic storm The gentle summer song of road diggers has never been more welcome in Europe! It is music to the ears in these times of economic crisis because it means… 11/07/2012
New Order: new again By combining New Wave and electronic music, New Order became one of the most critically acclaimed and highly influential bands of the 1980s. Euronews met them… 22/05/2012
Electronic sound of Nuits Sonores in Lyon – nocomment One of Europe’s leading independent electro music festivals has taken place in Lyon, France. The reputation of ‘Nuits Sonores’ — or ‘Nights of Sound’ — has… 18/05/2012
Lyon lets its hair down for urban festival Nuits Sonores The French contemporary music festival Nuits Sonores has got people dancing in the streets of Lyon. The 10th edition has just begun, watched over by… 18/05/2012
‘Nuits Sonores’ festival: Lyon dances all day and night until SundayNuits Sonores, the biggest festival of French contemporary music, opens on Wednesday in Lyon. The festival is one of the key cultural attractions of the… 15/05/2012
Greenpeace activist drops into nuclear power plant – nocomment A Greenpeace activist landed his hang-glider in an EDF nuclear plant in Bugey, France in a move to raise awareness of what the environment group says are… 03/05/2012
Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee on imagining worlds For one week the French city of Lyon became the worldwide capital of the web. Major players from around the globe came, along with the inventor of the web… 24/04/2012
Robert Combas’ ‘Greatest Hits’ plays in Lyon The Museum of Contemporary Art in Lyon is holding the first ever retrospective of French painter Robert Combas, known for his wild, hectic often turbulent… 21/03/2012
Terre et Cendres: Afghanistan’s story in opera After decades of war and violence, Afghanistan is still a long way from peace. French Afghan writer and director Atiq Rahimi takes us on a journey into the… 20/03/2012
Cartoon Movie shows depth of European talent Which European animation movie will get into cinemas tomorrow? 2012’s Cartoon Movie, gathering over 700 participants from 35 countries in the French city of… 16/03/2012
Animated film Wrinkles kicks off Cartoon forum Animated films aimed at adults were the emerging trend at this year’s Cartoon Movie in the French city of Lyon. The forum for makers and buyers of animated… 09/03/2012
It’s a media world These days the media is almost everywhere. It creates a huge impact. Increasingly it is not just something we can learn from, but something we need to learn… 05/01/2012
Contemporary Art Biennale Lyon The Contemporary Art Biennale in Lyon, France, includes all kinds of things. Argentinian artist Ernesto Ballesteros put on an indoor model aeroplane display… 13/12/2011
Ukraine pianist Romanenko marries music and colour The world-class musician Nathalia Romanenko tells euronews about the challenges of combining music and lights for the Festival of Lights in Lyon, and how if… 12/12/2011
The Festival of Lights in full swing in Lyon – nocomment Despite the cold, many were tourists were out in Lyon on 8 December 8 to admire the spectacle of the Festival of Lights in different parts of the city. 10/12/2011
UEFA: No betting irregularities in Champions League Following Lyon’s dramatic 7-1 win over Croatian champions Dinamo Zagreb which saw the French club qualify for the last 16 of the Champions League – … 09/12/2011
Lyon in lights The Fete des Lumieres in Lyon, France, has turned the city into a magical wonderland. Nearly three million visitors are expected to visit the 70 lighting… 09/12/2011
France: Lyon celebrates ‘Fête des Lumières’ – nocomment Tens of thousands of people gathered on Thursday evening for the opening of the ‘Fête des Lumières’ (Festival of Lights) which takes place every year in Lyon… 09/12/2011
Champions League: suspicious minds Suspicions of match mixing during Wednesday night’s Champions League have been raised by Spanish media following Lyon’s 7-1 thrashing of Dinamo… 08/12/2011
United and City crash out of Champions LeagueItalian side Napoli reached the knockout stages of the Champions League with a convincing 2-0 away win over bottom side Villareal while Manchester City… 08/12/2011
Arab Spring and euro crisis spark debate at Forum Libération There has been plenty on the agenda at the Forum Libération at Lyon in France – everything from the Arab Spring, the euro crisis, social upheavals and… 30/11/2011
Play to learn at Serious Games show Games are usually meant to be fun but those on show at the 7th Serious Games exhibition in the French city of Lyon are more about training and teaching, than… 29/11/2011
Manchester clubs struggle in the Champions League In Group A Napoli capitalised on home advantage as Cavani’s brace out did Manchester City. The home side took the lead, City equalised before Cavani’s… 23/11/2011
Ronaldo rules for Real in the Champions League qualifiersIn Group A of the Champions League a first half hat-trick from striker Mario Gomez gave Bayern Munich the perfect start. It was a narrow 2-1 win in the end… 03/11/2011
Zombie invasion in Lyon – nocomment Hundreds of people dressed as zombies bring some gore to Lyon’s streets, South East France ahead of Halloween. 25/10/2011
Champions League preview Manchester City host the Spaniards of Villarreal on Tuesday night as the Champions League resumes this week. Sergio Aguero returns from injury to spearhead… 18/10/2011
Gérard Depardieu: a life in film Gérard Depardieu is one of those actors who is recognised around the world, from America to Asia. He has played roles as diverse as Christopher Columbus, the… 12/10/2011
The ‘terrible beauty’ of La Biennale de Lyon The last line from WB Yeats’ powerful poem Easter 1916 is the starting point for La Biennale de Lyon. “A terrible beauty is born” is the banner beneath… 23/09/2011
Champions League final round qualifying draw The draw for the Champions league final round of qualifying on Friday in Nyon Switzerland and the heavyweights will be breathing a sigh of… 05/08/2011
Garage veterans ‘The Sonics’ rock electro music bash They started out in the mid to early 1960s. But vintage US rockers ‘The Sonics’ still have what it takes to excite an audience, as they demonstrated by… 03/06/2011
Nuits Sonores festival kicks off in Lyon – nocomment The Nuits Sonores festival dedicated to electronic and independent music started on June 2d in Lyon in France. 03/06/2011
The electronic sound of Nuits Sonores in Lyon One of Europe’s leading independent electro music festivals has got underway in Lyon in France. ‘Nuits Sonores’ — or ‘Nights of Sound’ — has built its… 02/06/2011
Stand by for the ‘robolution’ World players in the field of robotics gathered in the French city of Lyon for the first international InnoRobo event, where the experts all agreed that… 29/03/2011
Birthplace of cinema hosts Cartoon Movie forum The French city of Lyon, the birthplace of cinema, has been playing host to Europe’s premier animation film event. This year’s Cartoon Movie brought… 11/03/2011
Battling for territory in Lyon’s Old TownEnglish football fans are notorious for making an impression on their travels. But boisterous behaviour aside, Tottenham fans appear to have been caught up in… 21/02/2013
Spurs fans attacked in Lyon ahead of Europa League clashSecurity in the French city of Lyon is being stepped up after a suspected anti-Semitic attack on Tottenham football fans in a city centre pub last… 21/02/2013
English football fans injured in Lyon pub attackTwo pubs full of English football supporters have been attacked by an apparent neo-Nazi group in the French city of Lyon. It happened on the eve of the… 21/02/2013
Lyon lights up for its annual showLyon’s very own extravaganza has come to town. Every year, the famous “Fete des Lumieres” – or “Festival of Lights” – draws a crowd and this time is certainly… 07/12/2012
Demo tries to derail Monti-Hollande train planScores of protesters in Lyon had a go derailing a major rail project on the agenda of the Monti-Hollande summit. The two leaders made strides with a plan to… 04/12/2012
Monti and Hollande discuss new rail linkItalian Prime Minister Mario Monti met with French President Francois Hollande in Lyon on Monday, to discuss a new high-speed-rail link between the two… 03/12/2012
15th Lyon Biennale springs to lifeThe 15th Lyon Dance festival has begun, as always, with local people setting the scene for the international cast of thousands who will fill France’s second… 09/09/2012
Berners-Lee: ‘Go Geek’ to solve the copyright conundrumClearing the minefield that is online copyright law lies in the hands of web programmers, according to the inventor of www, Tim Berners-Lee. He was speaking… 19/04/2012
WWW2012 live Plenary panel: “Web as a human right?”Should the Internet access be considered as a human right ? Watch the Plenary panel live from the WWW2012 confernce in Lyon, France, between 11:00am and… 19/04/2012
“Go out in the streets and complain” says www inventorThe inventor of the world wide web, Tim Berners Lee, has urged people to take to the streets and protest new laws he says are threatening democracy and the… 18/04/2012
France and Italy give green light to high-speed rail linkFrance and Italy have signed an agreement to construct a high-speed rail link between Lyon and Turin. The line, which is due to be completed in 2023, will… 31/01/2012
French airport strike moves into fourth dayA strike by French air security staff is continuing for a fourth consecutive day after causing a weekend of major disruption to outgoing flights from Paris… 19/12/2011
French airport security staff continue strikeA strike by security staff slowed outgoing traffic at the main airports in the French cities of Paris and Lyon as the walkout over pay and conditions entered… 18/12/2011
Tear gas in the forest amid Italy rail protestItalian police have clashed with protesters trying to reach the construction site of a controversial high-speed rail link between Turin and Lyon in… 09/12/2011
Lyon lights extravaganza gets underwayFour million visitors are expected to attend this year’s ‘Fete des Lumieres’, the annual lights festival which has got underway in the French city of… 09/12/2011
Japan shines bright at Lyon’s festival of lightsWhat is billed as France’s biggest and best festival of lights begins in earnest tonight. “La fete des lumieres” takes place each year in the south-eastern… 08/12/2011
« The Arab spring woke us up ! »Over the course of three days in Lyon, the Liberation Forum tried to open “new borders”. The euro crisis, unrest in the Arab world, technological changes… 29/11/2011
Sandrine Chopin, “There is no humanitarian (NGO) interference – there is only political intereference”Sandrine Chopin has been working for Handicap International since 2008. Her job has taken her to Asia, Africa and the former Yugoslavia. Invited to the… 28/11/2011
What kind of Europe should we be building?The mayors of Lyon and Leipzig led an interesting debate entitled ‘Should France imitate Germany?’ Gerard Collomb cited Leipzig’s economic turnaround after a… 28/11/2011
“The Islamist party cannot rule without applying democracy”, Amira YahyaouiYoung Tunisian activist Amira Yahyaoui describes her mission as a “battle for democracy” and has a clear vision of what she wants Tunisian society to look… 28/11/2011
French ‘supercop’ is charged with corruptionA Paris court has ordered one of France’s top police officers to be detained on corruption charges. Charismatic Michel Neyret, who has been dubbed the city… 04/10/2011
France stunned by arrest of top police officersIt is being described as a bombshell for the French police. Four senior officers – including the deputy police chief in the city of Lyon, Michel Neyret –… 30/09/2011
Top French cops held over drug allegationsFour top police officials in France have been arrested over drug trafficking and corruption allegations. One of them is Michel Neyret, second-in-command in… 30/09/2011
French police chief arrestedA senior French police chief was arrested on Thursday and could face charges of corruption, drug trafficking and money laundering. French radio claimed the… 30/09/2011
Cartoon makers seek funds as industry growsNeither a fair nor a festival, the 13th international ‘Cartoon Movie’ is a forum for European cartoon producers to promote their films – and try to secure… 04/03/2011
Rasmus wins 2011 Bocuse d’OrBringing home the bacon for Denmark, Kofoed Rasmus has won this year’s Bocuse d’Or, the world’s top cookery competition. He was the favourite heading into the… 27/01/2011
Festival of Lights illuminates French city of LyonThe Fete des Lumieres in Lyon is four days of light and sound extravaganza which make it one of the premium events of its kind in the world. Originally a… 09/12/2010
Lyon shines bright in the bleak mid-winterLyon’s annual orgy of spectacular visual and audio displays has begun in its usual flamboyant style. The French city’s fabulous “Festival of Lights” may… 09/12/2010
Lyon’s magical Festival of LightsA magical light show is transforming a French city for the next few nights, bringing visitors in from all over the world. Buildings and monuments are lit up… 08/12/2010
World Entrepeneurship Forum awardsThe World Entrepreneurship Forum, held in Lyon, France, has closed after three days of debates on wealth creation and social justice. Over a hundred members… 05/11/2010
Youths continue France riotsThere has been another day of rioting against pension reforms in France. High school students are continuing to express their anger at the government on a… 20/10/2010
Milos Forman honouredThe real star of this year’s Lumiere Film Festival in Lyon was Czech-born director Milos Forman, who received the Lumiere Award for his life-time achievements… 12/10/2010
French film festival honours FormanMilos Forman, the Oscar-winning director of such classics as One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest and Amadeus, has picked up another award – the Prix Lumière for… 10/10/2010
Photojournalist Nachtwey zooms in on conflictWar, famine, natural disasters – American photographer James Nachtwey has caught on camera some of the most violent and heartrending conflicts and events of… 21/09/2010
Travelling with the Roma peopleThe exhibition “Voyages Pendulaires, des Roms au cœur de l’Europe” is taking place at Lyon’s Resistance and Deportation History Centre. It puts the spotlight… 16/09/2010
Biggest dance parade in Europe bursts onto Lyon streetsEurope’s largest dance parade drew more than 300.000 people to the streets of Lyon in eastern France last Sunday to mark the start of the Biennale de la Danse… 14/09/2010
Lyon gargoyle shows a harmonious faceThe French city of Lyon is helping to carve a more harmonious future for race relations in France. Alongside the words “God is great”, the latest gargoyle to… 09/09/2010
Ben in LyonThe Contemporary Arts Museum in Lyon, France has opened a new exhibition of work by Ben Vautier, whose scribbled notes adorn coffee cups, notepads, pencil… 02/04/2010
Ari Folman’s new film screened at cartoon forumAnimated films from across Europe have been screened in the French city of Lyon, for the 12th edition of the Cartoon Movie forum. One of the most anticipated… 10/03/2010
French city Lyon shines out in winter gloomOn December 8, the French city of Lyon’s St Jean Cathedral is dressed in light. It marks the start of a procession which lies at the heart of what is… 09/12/2009
Let there be lightFrom the 5th to the 8th of December the city of Lyon celebrates its fetes des lumieres. Sixty artists have transformed the city into a large luminous theatre… 08/12/2009
Orchestra in Lyon supports rising musical starsJun Merkl is the music director of ‘Orchestre National Lyon’. He knows how hard it is to make it in the world of classical music. So he is inviting young… 07/12/2009
Millions flock to see Lyon’s lightsAn estimated four million people have descended on the streets of Lyon in central France this weekend for the city’s annual light festival. The event was… 06/12/2009
Lyon switches on its Festival of LightThe central French city of Lyon has opened its annual “Festival of Light”. Glow sticks were handed out to the thousands of onlookers ensuring everyone had… 06/12/2009
Birthplace of cinema honours Clint EastwoodThe four-times Oscar winner rarely appears in public, but Clint Eastwood made an exception when he received the first Prix Lumiere in the French city of Lyon… 19/10/2009
Clint Eastwood honoured in LyonThe Hollywood legend Clint Eastwood has been honoured with a lifetime achievement award, at the 2009 Film Festival in Lyon. France’s second city is intimately… 18/10/2009
Lumiere 2009The Lumiere 2009 Grand Lyon Film Festival is underway in Lyon, France. The city is proud of being the birthplace of cinema, which was invented in 1895 by a… 14/10/2009
Agnès Varda turns from film to installation artAt over 80 years of age, Agnès Varda is still reinventing herself. She started her career as a photographer before becoming a pillar of the French New Wave… 18/09/2009
Contemporary Art Biennale in LyonThe theme of the Contemporary Art Biennale in the French city of Lyon is “The Spectacle of the Everyday” – celebrating the notion that daily life is a show… 17/09/2009
