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Johnny Hallyday will live another year Carla Bruni won't have a second bébé Nicolas Sarkozy won't win the Nobel Peace Prize Unemployment won't go down There won't be less traffic deaths Flying will be even less fun Dangerous dogs will continue to maul kids France won't win the Eurovision song contest Defective nuclear power plants [...]

Memory loss or calculated risk? Miss Paris loses her crown (and some clothes) The rules are strict: any girl trying to become Miss France has to be a) single, b) childless, and c) impeccable. Kelly Bochenko, Miss Paris 2010, got only two out of three. A French trash magazine has just revealed a number of [...]

Here's a tip for those who are en colère: take your anger to the Eiffel Tower and don't forget to bring a photographer. Yesterday, it was the pig farmers' turn. A handful of them released a bunch of cochons because they are angry with the government and supermarkets. It costs them more to breed the [...]

Conveniently ignored by the French press (leftists bastards!): Carla Bruni turns 42 today. Have a good one, Prima Donna! (Click pic for full image)

Remi Gaillard, France's favorite prankster is at it again. Here he does his private Grand Prix race in the heart of his hometown Montpellier. And again he gets stopped by the local police… More videos

The parade continues: here is the 14th calendar of French who strip for a cause. Today it's the girls from the volleyball club in the northern city of Lille. For the sixth edition of their calendar they chose to undress in the middle of the night to highlight local monuments. The calendar sells at 15 [...]

Or, how to turn an estate car into a cabriolet in one second:

For the fourth consecutive time, the dozen happy members of FONACON will try to stop the arrival of yet another new year. The fact that previous attempts remained without success is all the fault of the government, they say. They are now in search of worldwide support for their legitimate claim. Alas, they didn't get [...]

Time for an update from the naked calendars front. Today's edition (the thirteenth) features the gambling boys and girls of the Tripot Hold'em Club in Villeurbanne. The proceeds of their Les Dieux du Stack calendar go the club coffers. The pictures above are the only ones that show some flesh; the rest must be so [...]

Just when he's about to retire the world finally knows who's behind "the biggest rock star you've never heard of". (And contrary to what some people say on Facebook he's not dead yet.)

Pretty spectacular CCTV footage of a daylight robbery at a jewelers shop in Paris. Three men disguised as police quietly empty the shop, while a fourth one with a gun keeps passers-by at a distance.

Another doomsday scenario on photoshop site FreakingNews (click for bigger):

Having solved all crime in the country, French police can afford to send in massive forces to unchain an activist from rail tracks: About 30 French police removed a Greenpeace activist who chained himself to railway tracks to block the export of uranium to Russia. But the train was able to travel from a factory [...]

Can unemployed people go on strike? Apparently: Angry non-workers went on strike in Paris, demanding jobs, money and a better life. As usual in these situations the number of participants varied depending on who did the headcount. The organizers boasted 5,000 angry people, the police couldn't see more than 1,400. [Source]