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Les Graves Infos is an online news site, which doesn't add a lot to the news itself, except for its weather forecasts. Each day, Nina presents the weather, and it's always hot (at least in the studio). Below is yesterday's forecast for today's météo. Note: the warning at the start says that you must be [...]

Scientists have revealed the world's most photographed landmarks by studying millions of images using a supercomputer. A random Eiffel Tower pic on Flickr: Butterflies and bubbles in Paris. Click for source. Experts at British Cornell University analyzed nearly 35 million images posted by 300,000 users on the photo-sharing website Flickr. Predictable outcome: the Eiffel Tower [...]

French TV channel M6 scored well with the national edition of the British show How To Look Good Naked (3.3 million viewers). The show is supposed to help women get rid of their physical complexes by letting them pose nude for a photographer. Next month M6 aims for sexual parity by doing the same thing [...]

Your Thursday links: The Daily Show With Jon Stewart M – Th 11p / 10c Christine Lagarde thedailyshow.com Daily Show Full Episodes Economic Crisis First 100 Days Finance Minister shows America the funny side of France [Times] Paris receives a facelift [BBC] Sarkozy unveils his legacy: Paris as a futuristic eco-metropolis [Guardian] Loving the Louvre [...]

The Big Picture: Human landscapes from above Recently, photographer Jason Hawkes has been carrying his Nikon D3 aboard helicopters around the world, hanging out the doorway and capturing landscapes – most somehow affected by humans. In the Boston Globe he shares with us 26 more of his favorite photos, including three from above France. Here's [...]

French artist Anne-Catherine Becker-Echivard creates dream worlds, both funny and scary, illustrating the defects or the absurdity of our consumer society. Her models are fish, which she buys at local markets, then washes, scales and empties. The bodies end up in a frying pan, the heads become her models. The results are, to say the [...]

Your Wednesday clicks: Battle of the derrieres… the day Carla met her match Carla's agony as intimate photos of her with ex-lover are stolen in raid Valeo investigates claims that Morin bugged meetings about his payoff SocGen chief resigns over 'personal attacks' Nicolas Sarkozy’s Napoleonic vision wants to make Paris even greater Why the world [...]

So much for eternal youth! Most respondents to the Reader's Digest global survey are just fine with their limited shelf life here on earth. Not even the younger crowd consistently chooses immortality. In fact, more than 50 percent of those 45 and under in seven countries (including the United States) report that they don't want [...]

Lio (born Wanda Ribeiro de Vasconcelos, wiki) was a pop icon in France in the 1980s. Since then she's mostly known for her appearances in TV shows and the odd attempt to return as a pop star. In both incarnations she seems to attract an audience (and a lot of press attention) by displaying her [...]

French vintage advertising — before swine flu made the headlines:

Your Tuesday clicks: French restaurants grudgingly agree to cheaper meals French restaurants feel the crunch Scene from La Grande Bouffe (1973) Rachida's godfather ploy was last straw for Carla Cult leader escapes from French jail in helicopter Art's Great Whodunit: The Theft of the Mona Lisa in 1911 Number of Unemployed in France Nears Three-Year [...]

Today is the 65th birthday of the original dandy Jacques Dutronc, who is not only a successful singer and actor himself, but has also a wife and a son working in show business. Have a good one!

The Sarkozys are in Spain, and Nick has finally understood he doesn't have to stand on his toes to be respected (he's the one with the baggy trousers, third from left): But that's all irrelevant of course, because all eyes were on Prima Donna Charlie and soon-to-be Primera Dama Letizia. Guess which one I would [...]

Balou just woke up from hibernation and has enjoyed his first breakfast. Shepherds is the Pyrenees have noticed winter is over. Balou, one of the Slovenian bears in the mountains has devoured his first sheep. The ban the bear campaign is likely to gather pace again. Expect furious protests soon, and don't be surprised if [...]

On Dark Roasted Blend: Food Art and Pimped Food, including this wonderful flying fish: