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PSG offering to buy Gareth Bale in 85mln pounds deal to lure Villas-Boas
Paris-Saint-Germain (PSG) has offered to buy Tottenham Hotspur winger Gareth Bale in a bid to lure Andre Villas-Boas to the French capital. The Qatari-owned club's proposal had been turned down by the Tottenham manager earlier. According to the Mirror, but PSG has now returned determined to finalize a deal with the 35-year-old Portuguese, and are offering a world record 85 million pounds bid ...
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Serena Williams shows off athletic bikini body on Miami holiday
Serena Williams flaunted her toned figure while on a holiday in Miami to celebrate her French Open win. The tennis player, 31, who will be competing for her sixth Wimbledon title soon, wore a bikini to the beach, the Sun reported. The multi-millionaire star looked stunning in her two-piece that showed off her wash-board abs and toned arms and legs. Williams' kept her eyes hidden behind ...
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Lady Gaga being sued by French artist for plagiarism
Lady Gaga is reportedly facing a new 20-million-dollar lawsuit for allegedly stealing another artist's ideas. French artist Orlan has accused that the 'Bad Romance' hit maker used pictures of her sculpture, Bump-Load, in a No 1 album and video, the Daily Star reported. The 66-year-old artist wants the court judges to forbid Universal Music from additional sales of Gaga's record 'Born This ...
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France We havent mentally departed NZ
video The French rugby team insists it hasn't mentally departed New Zealand, after returning to the training field in Auckland today two-nil down in the three test series. The final test in New Plymouth on Saturday marks the end of a lengthy season, with reserve flanker Antonie Claassen estimating he's clocked up around 35 appearances alone. Claassen says it'd be too easy to ...
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2013 Paris Air Show unveiled with Airbus Boeing sealing big deals
The 2013 International Paris Air Show kicked off here on Monday, with world aviation industry heavyweights Airbus and Boeing declared big orders on the first day.As the leading European airplane manufacturer, Airbus opened the day by announcing the order made by the Doric aircraft financing group, a leasing company which serves airlines such as Emirates and Singapore Airlines. The group offered ...
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The Air France-KLM Group and Jet Airways sign a new cooperation agreement
Air France-KLM and Jet Airways, India’s premier international airline, will offer their customers more destinations between Europe and India thanks to mutual code-share agreements. This arrangement will significantly improve the choice of beyond flights for Air France-KLM customers to Indian cities. The new codeshare arrangement is open for sales as of today and for travel on June 19, ...
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Air New Zealands fuel efficient A320 features at prestigious Paris Air Show
Air New Zealand unveiled the first of its brand new fuel-efficient Airbus A320 aircraft at the Paris Air Show overnight. Air New Zealand is the launch customer for the aircraft, which features 2.4 metre high curved wing tip devices known as Sharklets that increase fuel efficiency and reduce CO2 emissions. Ten of the Sharklet equipped A320 aircraft will join Air New Zealand’s fleet ...
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Cannes Just short of 20 media nods
Australian agencies have taken out just under 20 of the 257 nominations on the Media Lions 2013 shortlist. Leo Burnett’s Small World Machines and McCann’s Dumb Ways to Die featured more than once as did DDB Sydney’s work for ...
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Cannes Sex and fast food win Mobile nods
The Mobile Lions shortlist was a lonely one for agencies from Down Under with only two making it onto the list. DDB Sydney and Havas Worldwide Sydney represented Australia on the shortlist which was 101 entries ...
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Cannes Four Aussies on Media Lions list
Out of 257 nominations only four Aussie agencies won a place on the Media Lions shortlist. Three Sydney shops – Leo Burnett, DDB and BMF – and one Melbourne agency, GPY&R, represented the Aussies. The judging of the Media Lions at Cannes ...
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Cannes Dumb Ways to Die kills with two Grand Prix
Dumb Ways to Die has scooped two Grand Prix and three Gold Lions on the first day of awards at Cannes this year, with many more chances to scoop top prizes. McCann Melbourne look odds on to be the most-awarded agency at the festival this year, with judge’s superlatives ringing out at every press conference. So far it has conquered the world ...
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Final command ends mission of European space observatory
European Space Agency controllers sent a final command to the Herschel satellite Monday, marking the end of operations for the successful space observatory. Herschel's science mission ended April 29 when the liquid helium that cooled the observatory's instruments close to absolute zero ran out, but the satellite has been kept active since then as an orbiting test bed for control ...
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France Taps Colbert in Obama-Like Effort to Bring Jobs Back Home
Europe against "unfair" trade practices, says he has a new way to bring jobs back home: Colbert 2.0. Named after Louis XIV's mercantilist finance minister, Colbert 2.0 is software Montebourg unveiled last week that he said will allow companies to determine whether they're better off producing ...
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Cannes 22 outdoor nods
Aussie agencies got 22 of 148 entries onto the shortlist for the Outdoor Lions, led as ever by Dumb Ways to Die and Small World Machines. McCann’s campaign has eight nods, and Leo Burnett Sydney’s six, while Droga5’s work for Dry Dock has four, and there are two for Clemenger BBDO Brisbane. Last year Australia got five winners. Client/agency Olive Branch Health Food ...
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Cannes Share a Coke most successful in decades
The Share a Coke campaign is "in the top three of my six and a half years at Coke" according to the brand’s marketing supremo Jonathan Mildenhall. Ogilvy & Mather Sydney were one of two Aussie agencies named on the seven-strong winner’s list for the Creative Effectiveness Lion at Cannes today, with entries having to have won a creativity award in the last year to be ...
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Agents nab “highly dangerous” Iranian wanted in France
Santo Domingo.- Iranian national Larki Ashtari, wanted in France on burglaries, grand theft and kidnappings was arrested in the city Wednesday, by National Investigation Department (DNI) agents. The DNI called Ashtari a highly dangerous criminal who entered Dominican Republic from Paris, via Punta Cana Airport on July 21, 2012, returning to that nation on September 15 of that year. It said the ...
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Possible EU rift after Barroso calls French cultural exception reactionary
Trade between the US and EU that could give each a boost of over 75 billion euros a year will be discussed in early July, but the audiovisual industry is off limits. Citing a ';cultural exception';, France has managed to keep that area out of future talks. This move may have opened up a division within the EU, after the International Herald Tribune quoted European Commission ...
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Rwandan major general to lead U.N. peacekeepers in Mali
Ban Ki -moon said Monday. Kazura will assume command July 1, when the transfer of authority from the African-led International Support Mission in Mali to the U.N. "blue helmet" peacekeepers is to occur, the United Nations said in a release. Until this appointment, Kazura was the commandant of the Rwandan Defense Forces Combat Training Center since December 2011. In April, the U.N. ...
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Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center channels a Parisian nightclub in Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris
June 17--Who is Jacques Brel? "I had never heard of him and knew nothing," says Halee Towne, who stars in "Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris" at the Fine Arts Center. "I assumed he was French. And that was all I had." She's not alone. The name probably doesn't ring many bells today, but during a chunk of the 20th century, the Belgian-born ...
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Michael Wolff A first take on the Cannes Ad Festival
The annual Cannes Lion festival to honor creativity in advertising, which begins today, is 60 years old this year. That means that it has seen the advertising industry from its mid-century cottage ...
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New French school slated for St-Lazare
There could be a new public French-language school opening in St-Lazare in 2015, a spokesperson for the board has told The Gazette. Though discussions are ongoing, Collette Frappier, a spokesperson for the Commission scolaire des Trois-Lacs, said things look good for a new school to be built in about two years. "Nothing has been signed, but there have been some discussions recently and ...
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Report Iran to send 4000 Revolutionary Guards to aid Syria regime
As Western powers prepare to provide weapons to rebels in Syria's civil war, Iran is reported to be planning to send a 4,000-man contingent of Revolutionary Guards to beef up President Bashar Assad's forces. Britain's Independent newspaper reports Tehran "is now fully committed to preserving Assad's regime, according to pro-Iranian sources who have been deeply involved ...
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Three arrested charged in attack on Chinese students in France
Three young people have been arrested and charged with attacking six Chinese students in Hostens, France, prosecutors said. The suspects, ages 19-20, were charged Sunday night with aggravated violence, using or threatening to use arms and drunkenness for the attack, Radio France Internationale reported. The prosecutor's office in Bordeaux said the suspects assaulted the group of Chinese ...
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Upgrade for French AWACs
The first of four French E-3F Airborne Warning and Control aircraft is being upgraded by Air France Industries, a sub-contractor to Boeing of the United ...
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Upgrade for French AWACs
The first of four French E-3F Airborne Warning and Control aircraft is being upgraded by Air France Industries, a sub-contractor to Boeing of the United ...
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Mutual importance of Sino-Franco relations
China and France, two major regional powers in Asia and Europe respectively, have long had steady economic relations. Cultural ties have seen a disparity, however, which is perhaps due to the recently unsteady diplomatic relations between the two countries. In the last few months though, there has been a significant improve in this area.
France was one of the first western powers to recognize the People’s Republic of China as a legitimate country and established an embassy in the country before Great Britain, Germany or the United States. Since 2008, however, France has found itself often at odds with the emerging superpower, especially over its One China policy. Read more
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