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Cannes-Tastic India Beyond the red carpet fashion circus India makes its presence felt at Cannes 2013
Beyond the red carpet fashion circus, India is finally making its presence felt at Cannes 2013 in terms of what the festival is actually about- cinema.While several stars make a red carpet splash as brand ambassadors of various sponsors, lesser Bollywood names and small- budget films are the ones representing Indian cinema at the French film festival.To commemorate the 100 years of Indian ...
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Cannes Last Days on Mars Director and Olivia Williams on Making the Mars Sci-Fi Thriller
The Directors' Fortnight section of the Cannes Film Festival doesn't have a reputation for being especially inclusive to films in the sci-fi genre, ...
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CORRECTED-Darty revenue falls market share in France improves
Tue May 21, 2013 4:30am EDT (Removes incorrect profit and revenue figures in paragraph 5 and replaces them with FY expectations) * Fall in like-for-like revenues in three months ended April * Darty France outperformed the market for the quarter * Profit before tax for the year in line with expectations LONDON, May 21 (Reuters) - Darty Plc reported a fall in like-for-like revenues in the three ...
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Cannes Euro Studios Look to Benefit From Busy London Soundstages
European film studio facility operators in such places as Germany and Eastern Europe feel positioned to take advantage of a shortage of free studio space in London and attract big Hollywood productions in the second half of the year and ...
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Rapinoes unbelievable Lyon experience
Kellermann ready for Lyon Of the two, Rapinoe has made the bigger immediate impact scoring in their UEFA Women's Champions League quarter-final against FC Malm and again in their last-four defeat of FCF Juvisy Essonne. As the final with VfL Wolfsburg at Stamford Bridge on Thursday approaches, the 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup finalist and 2012 Olympic gold medallist talked to UEFA.com ...
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Video Swift Bieber take Billboard honors Timberlake hits Cannes
The day's top showbiz news and headlines including Taylor Swift wins big at the Billboard Music Awards, Justin Timberlake hits the Cannes red carpet, and Denmark wins the Eurovision Song ...
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Cannes 2013 Behind The Candelabra review
The exceptional Liberace biopic Behind the Candelabra, starring Michael Douglas, proves why film still needs Steven Soderbergh, says Robbie ...
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Celestial Halo returning to France
Celestial Halo will return to France for a crack at the French Champion Hurdle at Auteuil in three weeks after his thrilling victory in the Prix La Barka at the weekend. Trainer Paul Nicholls is quite happy to keep last season's World Hurdle runner-up on the go in a bid to repeat the feat of Thousand Stars, who won both French races last year but could finish only fourth on Sunday. ...
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Speculation hots up in Cannes
19/05/2013 11:56 CET Guillaume Canet’s film ';Blood Ties'; has a global all-star cast. But the French actor-director’s crime and divided loyalties saga still failed to charm the critics when it was presented out of competition at the Cannes festival. The second week is well underway and there are already murmurs about the top prize. Euronews correspondent Fred Ponsard ...
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Speculation hots up in Cannes
19/05/2013 11:56 CET Guillaume Canet’s film ';Blood Ties'; has a global all-star cast. But the French actor-director’s crime and divided loyalties saga still failed to charm the critics when it was presented out of competition at the Cannes festival. The second week is well underway and there are already murmurs about the top prize. Euronews correspondent Fred Ponsard ...
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Aishwarya Rai leads Bollywood beauties at Cannes
The Cannes war is on as three Indian beauties - Vidya Balan, Sonam Kapoor and Aishwarya Rai - are trying to outdo each other. Being the centenary year of Indian cinema, this year is all the more important for the Indian film fraternity. While Vidya Balan and Sonam Kapoor have been making headlines with their hits and misses, it was Aishwarya Rai who was most watched for this ...
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France leads international wine competition
LONDON, May 21 - France has emerged the early leader at a major wine awards competition, winning the most regional trophies, followed by Italy and Australia. Preliminary results were released yesterday for the 10th ...
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Paris drizzles as Moscow sizzles in Europes warped spring
12/03/2013 17:15 CET Spring in the Pyrenees ';arrives early and quickly feels like the summer';, according to one tourist website. Not this year. Tourists usually come to cycle, hike, and marvel at wildflowers in the meadows. On Monday at the Col du Tourmalet (altitude 2,115 metres) they contemplated 10 metres of snow. France and much of western Europe are experiencing the coolest ...
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French regulator opens inquiry into Natixis ownership overhaul
PARIS | Tue May 21, 2013 1:35am EDT PARIS May 21 (Reuters) - French financial markets regulator AMF has opened an inquiry into an ownership overhaul at French bank Natixis, French daily Les Echos said on Tuesday. An AMF spokeswoman said she could not immediately comment. Natixis and BPCE were not available for comment. The paper said the regulator is looking into a project, announced in ...
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First lady meets director of Versailles Palace - PHOTOS
The first lady of Azerbaijan, President of the Heydar Aliyev Foundation, Mehriban Aliyeva who is on a visit to France met the director of the Versailles Palace and Museum Catherine Pgard on 20 May. The meeting where presents were handed discussed the expansion of cooperation between Azerbaijan and Versailles Palace in the sphere of culture. Mehriban Aliyeva noted that two monuments at the ...
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After starting stylish Aishwarya Rai Bachchan has a hiccup at Cannes 2013
Just when we were congratulating Aishwarya Rai Bachchan on her Cannes 2013 wardrobe, she had another Abu Jani-Sandeep Khosla hiccup on the red carpet. At the premiere of the film Blood Ties, Ash wore a full-sleeved, intricately embroidered anarkali which swamped her figure - an outfit just a shade less frumpy than the cream chikankari sari and embroidered jacket that we so hated last ...
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France deports Moroccan accused of calling for acts of murder
France is continuing a crackdown on suspected Islamic radicals with the expulsion of a 24-year-old Moroccan man who allegedly called for "acts of murder." French Interior Minister Manuel Valls announced Friday the man, living in La Rochelle, France, had been deported for "repeated acts and calls for murder" posted in French on a "jihadist website." Valls said the ...
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UPI Sports Calendar for Tuesday May 21
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YouTube CEO commended at Cannes
YouTube CEO Salar Kamangar has been named Cannes Lions Media Person of the Year for his role in leading the world's largest video-sharing community. Every year, The Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity Festival organisers present The Media Person of the Year Award to a prominent personality who is an influential figure in the development of today's media landscape, ...
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Un Chateau en Italie presented at Cannes Film Festival
Cast members arrive for the screening of the film "Un Chateau en Italie" presented in Competition at the 66th Cannes Film Festival in Cannes, southern France, May 20, 2013. (Xinhua/Gao ...
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Cannes Film Festival 2013 review As I Lay Dying directed by and starring James Franco is a solemn uneven affair
isn't the only adaptation of a classic American novel screening in Cannes this year. Also premiering is a film version of William Faulkner's 1930 ...
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France must reform or face punitive measures EU
India will mandate that all firms offering internet telephony, including Skype owned by software giant Microsoft, must set up a server in the ...
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Lebanon praised for efforts to enhance French relations
BEIRUT: An international general assembly of "Legion d’Honneur" recipients commended the Lebanese club for its efforts to enhance Lebanese-French relations. During a meeting in Paris, the French chapter of the club, which brought together figures who were honored with the prestigious French Legion d’Honneur decoration, expressed its readiness to collaborate with the ...
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Nadal Serena set out stalls for French Open
/enpproperty--> Roland Garros favorites hitting their peak form at the right time Rafael Nadal and Serena Williams fired warning shots to their French Open rivals with comprehensive victories over Roger Federer and Victoria Azarenka respectively in Rome on Sunday. Nadal has produced some blistering tennis since returning from a seven-month injury absence and his seventh victory in ...
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Frances Danone launches joint projects with Mengniu
/enpproperty--> French food giant Groupe Danone SA has invested in two joint projects with China Mengniu Dairy Co Ltd, a move that will help improve Danone's sliding market share in China and restore consumers' confidence in the country's dairy market. Danone will invest about 325 million euros ($417.17 million) in the projects. Through the deals, Mengniu will likely ...
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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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