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Today is Thursday, July 9, the 190th day of 2009. There are 175 days left in the year.

The cutting of the first plate for Barracuda n 2 in Cherbourg this morning marks the first milestone of the boat's production cycle.

I traveled to Normandy this week to see something not to be seen in the United States : a nuclear reactor under construction.

Paris, Jun 26 France experienced a new decline of its Gross Domestic Product by 1.2 percent in the first quarter of the year, said the National Statistics Institute .

Today is Saturday, June 27, the 178th day of 2009. There are 187 days left in the year.

In line with its open innovation culture, Leti has expanded its vision and opened its doors to entrepreneurs coming from outside so as to help them bring their technology to maturity.

FOUR former Bridgwater College students embarked on a mammoth cycle ride for charity - pedalling all the way to France and back to mark the D-Day anniversary.

A British diver was missing last night after a trip to a wreck in the English Channel went wrong.

Used in yards, farms and parks throughout the world, Roundup has long been a top-selling weed killer.

Today is Saturday, June 27, the 178th day of 2009. There are 187 days left in the year.

Saturday, June 20, 2009 Claims denial of commission led to 11 engineers massacre; Balladur, Sarkozy reject charge CHERBOURG, France: A probe into the 2002 killing of 11 French engineers in Pakistan is focusing on France's failure to pay a commission for the sale of submarines to Pakistan, a lawyer for the victims' families said on Thursday.

Early June, ST-Ericsson, the 50/50 joint venture between Ericsson and STMicroelectronics NV, unveiled a restructuring plan that entailed 146 layoffs in France, over a total of 2,100, and the closure of the company's site in Caen.

A GROUP of cyclists who rode from Oxford to France to mark the 65th anniversary of D-Day have described the adventure as a life-changing experience.

Today is Thursday, June 18, the 169th day of 2009. There are 196 days left in the year.

Buju Banton - File BERLIN, Germany: When Buju Banton pranced off Columbiahalle's stage and bade goodbye to the 480 fans who turned up at the Berlin club just past midnight Sunday, it was a watermark occasion signalling a new beginning.

Auditory hallucinations are one of the more disturbing features of schizophrenia, and tend to persist even when patients are treated with conventional medication treatments.

Never mind that there was a French military band playing in the background, for a moment the D-Day images that the cameras were capturing in Caen became surreally interchangeable with shots from a catwalk show.

Wiltshire war veterans have returned from France this week after attending commemorations marking the 65th anniversary of the D-Day landings, but it was a trip that so nearly didna t happen.

U.S. first lady Michelle Obama, left, seen during an arrival ceremony with French first lady Carla Bruni-Sarkozy at the Prefecture in Caen, France, on June 6. But the woman who put unstuffy retailers like J. Crew on the fashion map also showed a weakness for high-end fashion "a la francaise," taking her two daughters on a private shopping trip to ...

President Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama pose with French President Nicolas Sarkozy and First Lady Carla Bruni-Sarkozy during a welcoming ceremony as they arrive at the prefecture of Caen on June 6. Photo credit: Getty Images.