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Hip hip Hermione as Lafayette's ship sets sail for America again

More than just a replica ship, La Fayette's "Hermione" has revived skills and brought work to a French shipyard that will last beyond the ship's commemorative voyage to America

France

Five minutes with Clovis Cornillac, actor and director

Sport

Bayern and Barcelona through to Champions League semi-finals

German giants Bayern Munich booked their place in the semi-finals of the Champions League with an emphatic 6-1 win over FC Porto at the Allianz Arena

Cyprus

Remembering Gallipoli, the grinding WWI battle to take the Dardanelles

Soldiers’ descendants have come to commemorate the British allied forces in WWI landing in Gallipoli, Turkey, 100 years ago. The 25th April is known

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France

Dozens hurt as train derails in Paris region

Around 30 people have been injured in France, two seriously, in a collision between a train and a tractor-trailer at a level crossing in the Paris

Cinema

Rickman and Winslet spread A Little Chaos

Actor Alan Rickman makes a rare foray into directing with “A Little Chaos”, in which he also plays Louis XIV and is reunited on-screen with Kate

Sport

Champions League: Bayern face uphill task

Bayern Munich will be looking to overturn a two goal deficit when they take on Porto in the second leg of their quarter-final clash at the Allianz

United Kingdom

Londres, je t’aime! 5 reasons French prefer London

France

Replica of famous French frigate retraces historic voyage

The Hermione is a 25-million-euro copy of a navy frigate that crossed the Atlantic in 1780

France

Paris warehouse fire still raging

Firefighters are still battling a warehouse fire outside Paris that has been raging since Friday afternoon. Roads and train lines were closed for

Sport

Ibrahimovic ban reduced

Swedish international Zlatan Ibrahimovic has had his four-match domestic suspension reduced to three games by the French league. The 33-year-old was

Cinema

'Jamais de la Vie' French noir thriller that explores drudgery and redemption

A French film this week in Cinema Box. A noir thriller by Pierre Jolivet ‘Jamais de la Vie’ It tells the story of Franck a former trade unionist

Germany

Families of Germanwings crash victims attend memorial in Cologne

Almost a month on: family members gather in Cologne to remember the 150 who died in the Germanwings crash.

France

Cannes Film Festival lineup unveiled

The official selection for the 68th Cannes Film Festival was unveiled on Thursday, and the stars of the lineup so far are France and women. French

France

Islamophobic attacks rocket by 500% since Charlie Hebdo murders

France

From Youtube clip to silver screen

France

Forget Gen Y. Gen Z is here and it just killed TV

Finland

Nokia confirms Alcatel-Lucent deal

Nokia has confirmed that it intends to acquire the ailing French telecom company Alcatel-Lucent. The Finnish firm has got its sights set on becoming

France

French debate new legal tools against Internet terrorism and hackers

France has begun debating a new law that will give its intelligence services extensive powers to track suspected Islamists and so-called foreign

France

Le Pen grand-daughter to replace FN founder in French regional poll

Marion Marechal-Le Pen, the grand-daughter of France’s Front National (FN) founder, Jean-Marie Le Pen, is to replace him as candidate in regional