Armed robbers pulled off one of the world's biggest jewellery heists at a famed Paris store, making off with diamonds and valuables worth 80 million euros (102 million dollars), investigators said Friday. The four robbers on Thursday stole nearly all...
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As many as four robbers, some dressed as women, stormed Harry Winston's store near the Champs-Elysee and stole nearly all of its valuables. They seemed well informed and knew the names of some of the shop's staff, police say. The...
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A mong the many superheroes that fly, swing and bulk, our man Frank Martin can not only drive fast but here he can also ride a bicycle, strip-fight and maneuver his darling Audi with equal finesse. Well, if that's what it takes to maintain a...
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At a bail hearing a few weeks ago, Assistant Crown attorney Claude LeFrancois told Ontario Superior Court Justice Michel Charbonneau that Hassan Naim Diab poses a flight risk given the gravity of the offences he has been accused of and...
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Flics with flares, jangly rock music, brown wallpaper, Jason King moustaches – yes, the Seventies happened in France, too. This tale of two siblings stars Guillaume Canet as a police detective and François Cluzet as his ne'er-do-well older brother, hot...
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And Joe Nocera of the Times uncouthly " lashed out at the editors and asked how each of the them could be so sanguine about the future."...Graydon Carter is convinced his invincible publication will weather this economic storm as it...
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Ivan Basso will attempt to win both the Giro d'Italia and the Spanish Vuelta in his return from a two-year doping ban, and he's hoping that teammate Franco Pellizotti will help him beat Lance Armstrong at the Italian race. Basso,...
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A $4.5 billion bid Wednesday by France's state-controlled power company for reactors in two states could lead to the only foreign ownership stake in U.S. nuclear plants. The late bid for half of Constellation Energy's nuclear business also puts Electricite...
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French scientists are planning to clone Périgord truffles, the pungent fungi known to connoisseurs as “black diamonds” and which can fetch up to €1,000 ($1,267, £860) a kilo.
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