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• FRANCE: Cannes Film Festival 2012
  

  FRANCE: Cannes Film Festival 2012

  The 65th Cannes Film Festival will pay tribute to screen godess Marilyn Monroe, even though she never attended when she was alive. There’ll be plenty of up-to-date glamour, too. Plus international politics, including films on the Arab Spring. Rosslyn Hyams reports for RFI.

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• FRANCE: Cannes Film Festival 2012
  

  FRANCE: Cannes Film Festival 2012

  The 65th Cannes Film Festival will pay tribute to screen godess Marilyn Monroe, even though she never attended when she was alive. There’ll be plenty of up-to-date glamour, too. Plus international politics, including films on the Arab Spring. Rosslyn Hyams reports for RFI.

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• FRANCE – REPORT + SLIDESHOW: Louis XIV railway carriages take to Paris-Versailles line
  

  FRANCE – REPORT + SLIDESHOW: Louis XIV railway carriages take to Paris-Versailles line

  Possibly the most glamorous local railway carriages in the world started operating on Wednesday between Paris and Versailles. They may look like any old beat-up railway train on the outside but inside they [...]

• : African press review 16 May 2012
  

  : African press review 16 May 2012

  Is the ICC trial over Kenya’s 2007 post-poll violence going to start before the end of the year? Is al-Shebab getting strict in central Somalia? What are SA bosses ready to sacrifice? Why are Cosatu and Democratic Alliance members throwing [...]

• GERMANY – EUROZONE: Austerity advocate Merkel gets 750-euro pay rise
  

  GERMANY – EUROZONE: Austerity advocate Merkel gets 750-euro pay rise

  German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Europe’s chief advocate of austerity, is soon to pocket an extra 930 euros a month, bringing her salary to 17,016 euros a month. After meeting new French President François Hollande in Berlin [...]

Sports

• SPORTS INSIGHT: English premier league draws to a close

  Manchester United’s Wayne Rooney shoots past Swansea City’s Michael Vorm (L) during their match in Manchester, 6 May, 2012
  Reuters/Darren Staples

  RFI in Manchester on the final stages of the English premier league – and news of relegation in the Spanish league.
   

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• The Nice Open 2012

  The Nice Open is back again this year, welcoming a host of dynamic tennis matches from 28 different tennis players. Not only will it stand out as an exciting tournament, it will also show that sport can be very eco-friendly as well.

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• SPORTS INSIGHT: How will Hogson shape up at England?

  Newly appointed England football manager Roy Hodgson
  Reuters/Andy Couldridge/Pool

  Roy Hodgson, the new manager of the England football team, has just over a month to fashion a side for the European championships in Poland and Ukraine. The 64-year-old boss at West Bromwich Albion was the surprise choice for the job. Media commentators had assumed that the [...]

Business News

• BRICs: what letter to choose?

  You probably already heard about the ‘BRICs’. This acronym stands for four emerging countries: Brazil, Russia, India and China. It was invented in 2001 by Jim O’Neill, an economist at the famous investment bank Goldman Sachs, who described these countries as the ones who should become the most dominant economies in the world by the [...]

• BRICs: what letter to choose?

  You probably already heard about the ‘BRICs’. This acronym stands for four emerging countries: Brazil, Russia, India and China. It was invented in 2001 by Jim O’Neill, an economist at the famous investment bank Goldman Sachs, who described these countries as the ones who should become the most dominant economies in the world by the [...]

• Understanding tax laws 2012

  What’s new about the personal income tax and corporate tax this year? Jean-Philippe Gioanni, registered chartered accountant, looks at the 2012 Finance Act and gives you some details.

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PARIS NEWS

• Marlene Forte is Acting

  HOLLYWOOD (Herald de Paris) — Marlene Forte appeared in many independent films since the early 1990’s. She received Imagen Foundation Award’s nomination for her performance on the 2008 movie Little Girl Lost: The Delimar Vera Story. On television, Forte appeared in recurring roles on House of Payne and Crossing Jordan. Her film appearances include [...]

• Bald By Choice and Not Genetics

  SAN FRANCISCO (Herald de Paris) — I suspect that the whole cue ball, hard-boiled egg look began as a reaction to Michael Jordan’s iconic success. It quickly spread to gang bangers and the police who wanted to lose their individual look for the sake of tribal conformity. This, “We all look alike so you can’t [...]

• The Whipping Club

  This review was written for Herald de Paris, the world’s leading traditional new media bi-lingual news journal.
  By Hubert O’Hearn
  THUNDER BAY (Herald de Paris) – The following appeared in the May 20, 2009 edition of the Belfast Telegraph under the headline: Thousands Raped in Ireland’s Christian Brothers Schools
  The report found that molestation and rape were [...]

• Greg Lake: What a Lucky Man He Is

  By Dr. Al Carlos Hernandez & Benny Reitveld
  HOLLYWOOD (Herald de Paris) – Gregory “Greg” Stuart Lake is best known as the vocalist and bassist of King Crimson and the bassist, guitarist, vocalist, and lyricist of Emerson, Lake & Palmer.
  In January 2012 Lake announced a new interactive U.S. theater tour called “Songs of a Lifetime,” which began to rave [...]