Alcatel-Lucent to Cut 336 Jobs in France The New York Times | BERLIN — Alcatel-Lucent, the French maker of telephone network equipment, said Thursday that it planned to cut 3.4 percent of its workforce in France by the end of the year as part of what it described as a periodic review of its personnel needs. | Simon Poulter, a spokesman for the company,...
France to vote on Armenia 'genocide' bill Al Jazeera | French senators are set to vote on a bill that would make it illegal to deny that the mass killings of Armenians by Ottoman Turks nearly a century ago amounted to genocide. | Members of the French upper house were expected to debate the bill on Monday, nearly a month after the French national...
A Monster in Paris – review The Observer A Monster in Paris: all very self-referential, but in a good way. A Monster in Paris Production year: 2011 Country: France Cert (UK): U Runtime: 89 mins Directors: Bibo Bergeron Cast: Adam Goldberg, Bob Balaban, Catherine O'Hara, Danny Huston, Jay Ha...
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Day-by-day guide to London and Paris: day seven The Examiner | Day 7: Paris | The art, architecture, shopping (don’t worry if your heart flutters at the mention of shopping in Paris, its perfectly natural) cafés, wine and bakeri...
Salma Hayek To Be Honored In France Starpulse | Salma Hayek is to receive France's highest culture prize - the Legion d'Honneur. | | The Mexican movie star, who is married to Frenchman Henri Francois Pinault, has been n...
Six Nations 2012: France have the record and consistency to win as other teams patch ... The Daily Telegraph Just the best time ever to be associated with England. Smashed in the Heineken Cup, ravaged by injuries to key figures, still reeling from the fallout from a World Cup which gets ever more overblown and apocryphal each time a major rugby figure adds ...
SLSO French hornist finds beauty in art songs STL Today | "The Horn in Song." Tod Bowermaster, horn; James Howsmon, piano. (Available at the Powell Symphony Hall boutique, Amazon.com, CDBaby.com, iTunes.) | Another member of the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra has produced a solo CD: SLSO third horn Tod Bowe...
So, what have the Scots ever done for us? Just 101 of the innovations Caledonia ... The Independent | Misappropriated as the philosophical father of our money, money, money culture, the absent-minded Scottish Enlightenment philosopher spent a decade writing The Wealth of Nations. He studied at the Universities of Glasgow and Oxford – and considered the teaching at the former superior. | Bank of England | Sir Mervyn King has Sir William Paterson...
