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Cambodian documentary wins Cannes prize
Psy impersonator fools Cannes festival stars A documentary using small clay figures to tell the story of how Cambodian filmmaker Rithy Panh's family perished under the Khmer Rouge regime won the top prize in the second most important competition at the Cannes film festival. L'Image Manquante (The Missing Picture) was among the 18 films that premiered in the Un Certain Regard category ...
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Brian France Innovation drives NASCAR racing
Help Oklahoma victims CONCORD, N.C. -- Projects such as the introduction of the Generation-6 car and the development of the Air Titan track drying system were big-ticket items for NASCAR officials heading into the 2013 season. Now that the season is nearly one-third complete -- ...
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Avoid traffic and hold-ups with a helicopter at the Cannes Film Festival
23/05/2013 16:44 CET The last weekend of the Cannes Film Festival draws in an increasing number of stars and star-gazers. More celebrities will arrive to grace the red carpet at closing ceremony on Sunday night. Organisers cannot afford to have the stars stuck in traffic jams as they make their way from Nice’s Cte d’Azur Airport. Michel de Rohozinski is the managing director of ...
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No Paris-London link at this stage
PRESIDENT Francois Hollande says there is "at this stage" no apparent link between a knife attack on a soldier in Paris and the murder of a soldier in London. His comment comes after a man armed with a box cutter attacked a French soldier patrolling the business district of Paris on Saturday evening and stabbed him in the neck. Police sources said the victim would survive the attack but ...
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Copycat fears as soldier knifed in Paris
President Francois Hollande says there is "at this stage" no apparent link between a knife attack on a soldier in Paris and the murder of a soldier in London. His comment comes after a man armed with a box cutter attacked a French soldier patrolling the business district of Paris on Saturday evening and stabbed him in the neck. Police sources said the victim would survive the ...
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French soldier stabbed with Stanley knife
Police officers stand guard where a French soldier was stabbed in the throat in the commercial district of La Defense, outside Paris. Picture: AP/Remy de la ...
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Authorities investigating possible link to UK attack after French soldier stabbed in throat
May 25, 2013: Police officers stand near the cordoned off spot where a French soldier was stabbed in the throat in the busy commercial district of La Defense, outside Paris, and France's president said authorities are investigating any possible links with the recent slaying of a British ...
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France begins next stage of troop withdrawal from Mali
French Defence Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian (R) climbs aboard his plane, on April 26, 2013 in Bamako. Le Drian's visit came shortly after the beginning of a phased withdrawal of the 4,500-strong French contingency which will see just 1,000 troops left in Mali by the end of the year. (Martin Bureau /AFP/Getty ...
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France says hed like fall race stay in Charlotte
CONCORD, N.C. — NASCAR chairman Brian France says Charlotte track owner Bruton Smith has not asked NASCAR to move the Bank of America 500. But he left the door open to such a move. France said his preference would be to keep the race in Charlotte, but added "for one reason or another, (if) a certain market is not performing as well, it may be a better opportunity. We've seen ...
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France Science will drive innovation in NASCAR racing
By Reid Spencer NASCAR Wire Service Distributed by The Sports Xchange CONCORD, N.C.-- With the tightest competition possible the overriding goal of NASCAR chairman and CEO Brian France, the sanctioning body has increased the separation between the competition side of the business and the research-and-development side. "What we've decided to think about is, as we go along, getting more ...
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France Tracks shy away from Air Titan due to cost
CONCORD, N.C. — NASCAR chairman Brian France says he believes the Air Titan drying system is great for the sport. That doesn't mean it's for everyone. France said Air Titan, which uses compressed air to move water off the track and then dry the surface, is available to all tracks. But he said not all tracks are taking advantage of the system due to the "cost issue." ...
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A controversial victory lap for Lewis at Cannes
CANNES, France — Jerry Lewis, so beloved in France, isn't quite overcome with emotion now that he's back at the Cannes Film Festival. The festival, he says, is "for snobs," and when he meets a reporter from his native land, he exhales, "It's so nice to hear an American." To him, Cannes isn't an epicenter of rabid Lewis fandom, it's simply ...
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France NASCAR not talking to IndyCar about double
NASCAR chairman Brian France says the organization is not talking with IndyCar about making it easier for drivers who want to try racing in both the Indianapolis 500 and the Coca-Cola 600 on the same ...
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Attacker stabs uniformed French soldier in Paris
A man armed with a box cutter on Saturday attacked a French soldier patrolling the business district of Paris and stabbed him in the neck, police sources ...
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France doesnt back Charlotte-to-Vegas idea
Ricky Craven previews the Coca-Cola 600 CONCORD, N.C. -- NASCAR chairman Brian France is not in favor of moving a Sprint Cup race from Charlotte Motor Speedway to Las Vegas. Earlier this week, Speedway Motorsports Inc. chairman Bruton Smith said there was a 70 percent chance he would seek to move the October Chase race from CMS to his 1.5-mile track in Sin City. That would leave the hub of ...
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Between 180-200 French militants have fought in Syria Le Monde
al Qaeda -linked Nusra Front. About two dozen have already returned to France, Le Monde said. The newspaper also quoted security sources as saying France was worried about the risk of attacks by those returning home from the conflict. But security sources said they lacked the legal means to monitor returning fighters effectively as too little was known about the Islamist brigades they had ...
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French gay marriage opponent may skip rally
A high-profile opponent of same-sex marriage in France said she will not attend a major opposition rally in Paris, saying her presence "crystallizes hatred." Frigide Barjot told reporters Friday she had been threatened by other more-radical opponents of legalizing homosexual marriages and would likely not take part in Sunday's event. "I would like to go but my presence ...
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Cannes 2013 roundup The highs the lows and who will win the Palme dOr - video
The Cannes film festival has seen rain, stars, robbery, temper tantrums and somehow, in between all that, some films too. Join Xan Brooks, Peter Bradshaw and Charlotte Higgins at the UK pavilion as they pick through the highlights and low points of this year's festival, and try to divine a ...
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Tilda Swinton brings erudite vampires to Cannes
CANNES, France (AP) -- Tilda Swinton injects her own brand of otherworldly-cool into Jim Jarmusch's latest movie "Only Lovers Left Alive," an unusual comedy that puts a spin on the age-old vampire ...
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Alize Cornet wins Strasbourg International
Alize Cornet of France dominated the second set Saturday to defeat Lucie Hradecka in the championship match at the Strasbourg International. Cornet, who was runner-up at Strasbourg last year, won 24 of the 31 points played in the second set and ended the day with a 7-6 (7-4), 6-0 triumph heading into next ...
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Year later Serena Williams seeks more in Paris
Serena Williams of the United States adjusts her hair during a press conference for the 2013 French Open tennis tournament, at Roland Garros stadium in Paris, Friday May, 24, 2013. (AP Photo/Christophe ...
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France rules out Iran joining in Syria peace talks
ABU DHABI - France's foreign minister on Saturday ruled out Iran taking part in a proposed Syria peace conference, saying Tehran was involved in the conflict and had no desire for peace.Laurent Fabius will host Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and US Secretary of State John Kerry at a dinner on Monday to discuss how to nudge Syrian President Bashar Assad and the Syrian opposition ...
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Iranian student at Chicago film school wins Cannes short film prize
Anahita Ghazvinizadeh won $19,500 for her work on the 21-minute movie "Needle," about a sixth-grade girl torn between her divorcing parents, the Chicago Tribune reported Saturday. "Piano" director Jane Campion served as the jury president of the Cinefondation short film competition. Ghazvinizadeh had previously directed the short film "When the Kid Was a Kid" ...
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From cocaine and stabbing to Cannes film director HE ESCAPES HANDSWORTH GANGS TO JOIN RICH FAMOUS Birmingham Mail
But there was a new name on the scene at this year's Cannes Film Festival with a background far removed from the bright lights of the French Riviera. Handsworth director M.A Double's real life story is itself worthy of a film script. His gangster-themed production, Ready 4 Whatever, was shot after he claimed to have spent 16 months on bail awaiting trial for importing Pounds ...
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Rafael Nadal Is Probably Going to Win Another French Open—Oddly Enough
AP / Manu Fernandez Every time I watch Rafael Nadal play tennis on a clay court, I'm reminded of a quote from former NBA coach Doug Collins, in which Collins describes the nearly impossible task of defeating a Michael Jordan led-Bulls team in the NBA ...
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Paris has one of the largest and most emulated bike-sharing systems in the world
Paris is becoming ever more eco-friendly with bike-sharing becoming the major fad of daily commuters and public transport users. The system is so popular, major expansion plans have been announced.
Paris is already home to the largest bicycle-sharing system in the world, but the corporation set up to manage the city’s most eco-friendly form of public transport, Velib, has extensive expansion plans for the network, which is also one of the most copied in the world. Read more
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