Auvergne, France News

Michelin & Cie., the world's second-largest tiremaker, raised its earnings target for 2015, saying that new plants in Brazil and China will add to profit starting this year.

Michelin, the tire manufacturer based in Clermont-Ferrand in the Auvergne region of France may build a new plant in Anderson County, South Carolina, a location in which the company already employs around 700 employees.

Michelin, the world's second-largest tyremaker, said profit rose in 2011 on surging demand from European and U.S. truckmakers.

As time goes by, a night in Rick's Cafe means more than ever before : As 'Casablanca' is re-released this week, 70 years after its premier, Matthew Bell says play it, Sam The film's inception dates back to the summer of 1938, when an American English teacher called Murray Burnett travelled to Vienna to help his Jewish relatives escape the Nazis.

This Warm Lentil and Smoked Pork Belly Salad, adapted from a recipe by David Tanis, is made with green French lentils.

The Ligue 1 matches between Dijon and Valenciennes, Nancy and Rennes and Saint-Etienne and Lorient on Saturday have been brought forward from 1900 local time to 1500 due to adverse weather.

LIVERPOOL will be "collateral damage" in the government's determination to make Manchester an economic powerhouse, one expert has warned.

The genetic landscape of European Y-chromosomes has been widely surveyed. However, French male lineages are still poorly characterized, being scarce the current genetic contribution to the demographic history of France.

As seen from space, the caldera of Santorini, Greece, appears as several islands surrounding the now-drowned center blasted out in a mammoth eruption around 1600 B.C. New research suggests this Bronze Age supereruption was preceded by rapid changes in the volcano's magma.

Volcanoes can signal their intent to erupt days or months ahead of time, giving authorities a chance to evacuate the area.

Two weeks ago, dozens of cars were set alight in the French city of Clermont-Ferrand after a 30-year-old truck driver, Wissam El-Yamni, was roughed up and then died while in police custody.

Lille boss Rudi Garcia aiming to keep the club in the top three in Ligue 1 with victory against Saint Etienne on Saturday The French champions are only one point ahead of Olympique Lyonnais currently, and the coach is eager to stay in the hunt for the title with a positive result this weekend

Karen Hypes, back to camera walking with two walking sticks, and her husband Dayton started their trek across the Pyrenees mountains on April 26, 2009 during a 'horrific' blizzard on their pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela in northwestern Spain.

Michelin, the tire manufacturer based in Clermont-Ferrand - France, on Tuesday said it is putting plans to expand its manufacturing capacity in Hungary on hold because of the uncertain economic environment, business daily Vilaggazdasag reports.

TWO weeks ago, dozens of cars were set alight in the French city of Clermont-Ferrand after a 30-year-old truck driver, Wissam El-Yamni, was roughed up and then died while in police custody.

The People says City spies have also watched St Etienne centre-half Zouma, 17, four times in the past two months.

There are moments, as this European drama of debt and deficit grinds on, when one wonders what Cecil von Renthe-Fink might have made of it.

Carbogen Amcis AG has acquired Creapharm Parenterals, a subsidiary of France-based Creapharm Group .

Until recently what had really happened in Vichy France during the Second World War was obscured by assiduously cultivated folklore.

Mulligan's brother posted to Afghanistan British actress CAREY MULLIGAN is facing a nervous few months after her beloved brother was posted on a military mission to Afghanistan.