Kei Kobayashi first Japanese chef to get three Michelin stars in France
Chef Kei Kobayashi became the first Japanese chef ever to win the maximum three Michelin stars in France on Monday. The flamboyant 42-year-old, who was born in Nagano Prefecture, was the biggest winner on a night when Japanese cooks triumphed in the backyard of French ...
Paris shops' sales halved as strikes bring chaos to the city
Five weeks into strikes crippling French transport, Emile Sebbag is agonizing over how to keep afloat his two Parisian clothing stores, deserted by shoppers as the backlash against France's pension reform drags on. The start of winter sales on Wednesday — traditionally a big event ...
Stowaway child found dead in plane's landing gear well at Paris airport after arrival from Abidjan
A child stowaway was found dead Wednesday in the undercarriage of a plane at a Paris airport, officials said, having probably frozen to death or asphyxiated on the flight from Cote d'Ivoire. The child, aged around 10, had clambered into the underbelly of the Air ...
Thousands of people demonstrated on Saturday against French President Emmanuel Macron's proposed pension reforms that have sparked a monthlong transport strike. Some protesters donned the yellow vests that over the past year have become symbolic of opposition to Macron's attempts at reforms that he says ...
French prosecutors said a knife attack on Friday that left one man dead and two women injured in a park in the Paris area is being treated as terrorism-related. In a statement Saturday, they said investigations over the past few hours revealed that the assailant, ...
Glimmers of cheer for Paris commuters on 26th day of strikes as transport squeeze eases
The start of a fourth week of French transport strikes saw some modest improvements Monday for beleaguered commuters in Paris, with fewer Metro lines closed. The strikes against government plans to reform the French pension system were still causing considerable disruption for users of the ...
Notre Dame restoration enters risky phase with removal of mangled scaffolding
The operation to shore up fire-ravaged Notre-Dame Cathedral is entering a risky stage as engineers resume preparations for the removal of scaffolding that could provoke a further collapse. The Paris landmark lost its roof and spire in the April 15 blaze, but the main bell ...
Christmas crawl as French transport strike enters fourth week, exacts financial toll
Christmas Day brought no respite for travelers in France as a transport strike entered its fourth week, ruining the plans of thousands wanting to celebrate with loved ones. Many people scrambled at the last minute to make alternative arrangements as the protest against pension reform ...
Christmas Eve 2019 was an unusually gloomy one for France as the 20th day of a transport strike left many scrambling on Tuesday to reach their loved ones for the traditional family feast, while others simply gave up. The protest against pension reform has led ...
No Christmas Mass at Notre Dame for the first time since Napoleon
For the first time in more than 200 years, worshippers will not be able to celebrate Christmas Mass at Notre Dame cathedral, still being restored after a devastating fire. "There won't be a midnight Mass at Notre Dame. The last time this happened was during ...
Zelenskiy unveils restored bridge in conflict-torn eastern Ukraine ahead of peace summit
President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on Wednesday unveiled a rebuilt bridge that was blown up in eastern Ukraine in 2015, among several confidence-building measures before a summit next month meant to end a conflict with Russian-backed separatist forces. Dressed in a khaki jacket, Zelenskiy was visiting the ...
Yellow vest protesters mark anniversary with violence in Paris
Demonstrators torched cars and pelted police with stones and bottles and police fired tear gas and water cannons in Paris on Saturday as rallies to mark the first anniversary of the anti-government yellow vest demonstrations erupted into violence. A total of 28,000 people demonstrated across ...
