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3 hrs ago | Tvnz.co.nz

NZ's first vampire western selected for French film festival

A short film, described as New Zealand's "first vampire Western", has been selected to screen at a French short film festival early next year.

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7 hrs ago | The Chronicle-Journal

French a Big Loana to spur growth raises concerns over skyrocketing debt, deficits

French President Nicolas Sarkozy arrives for an EU summit in Brussels, Friday Oct.

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Related Topix: Nicolas Sarkozy, World News, Alternative Energy, Science / Technology, Wind Power, Renewable Energy (Green Energy), Energy

12 hrs ago | WebMD Health News Center

Drug May Boost Women's Sexual Desire

Nov. 19, 2009 -- An investigational drug that didn't perform well as an antidepressant appears to slightly boost sexual desire A as well as the number of satisfying sexual encounters in women with lagging libidos, a study shows.

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Related Topix: World News, Human Sexuality, Women's Health, Health

17 hrs ago | CANOE - JAM! Music

Liam: New band 'better than Oasis'

Liam Gallagher Liam Gallagher is heading back to the studio to record an album - and he's already bragging his new band will be "better than Oasis". The band split in August when Gallagher's guitarist brother, Noel, quit following a backstage fight with his sibling before a show in Paris, France.

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Related Topix: Pop/Rock, Oasis, World News, Music

22 hrs ago | KIMT

Jackson dismisses reconciliation with Dupri

Jermaine Dupri and Janet Jackson leave the Christian Lacroix '09 Spring Summer Haute Couture fashion show on July 1, 2008 in Paris, France.

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Related Topix: Jermaine Dupri, Rap, Black Entertainment, Entertainment

Thu Nov 19, 2009

Independent Online

Boy charged with attempted murder

Senlis, France - A 13-year-old French boy who allegedly set out to mow down his teachers with a shotgun was Thursday charged with attempted murder and released on bail, officials said.

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CBS 11

Sen. Kerry's Daughter Arrested For Drunk Driving

Share + Nov 19, 2009 11:13 am US/Central LOS ANGELES 1 of 1 Alexandra Kerry attends the Akvinta Presents 'A Night of Hollywood Domino' at The House at Cannes during the 62nd Annual Cannes Film Festival on May 18, 2009, in Cannes, France.

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Related Topix: US Politics, John Kerry, US News, US Senate, Democrat, World News, Entertainment

The Miami Herald

French court acquits all in blast that killed 31

A court has acquitted a subsidiary of French oil giant Total and a former factory chief in a 2001 explosion at a chemical plant that killed 31 people.

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Herald-Standard

Tokyo crowned new gourmet capital by Michelin

The Epicurean king who oversees the Michelin Guide fears he may be banished from France.

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Related Topix: Life, Gourmet, Food,

Nothing To Do With Arbroath

Women banned from wearing trousers in Paris

A decree banning women from wearing trousers in Paris is still technically in force, it has emerged, making the laissez-faire French capital theoretically stricter than hardline Sudan in the fashion stakes.

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Wed Nov 18, 2009

WIAT-TV Birmingham

MTV gets rights to 'This Is It'

General view of the Grand Rex theater during the 'This is it' premiere on October 28, 2009 in Paris, France.

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Related Topix: World News, Black Entertainment, Pop/Rock, Michael Jackson, Entertainment

Telegraph.co.uk

DDay piper to be honoured by the French

A Second World War veteran who played the bagpipes on the Normandy beach during the D-Day landings 65 years ago is to be honoured by French officials for his role in liberating them from Nazi Germany.

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Related Topix: D-Day, Dance, World News

The Wichita Eagle

Woman leaves $40,000 at Md. shrine for safekeeping

In this undated photo released by Mount St. Mary's University, gold and silver coins are shown from a collection worth an estimated $40,000, that was found near a Catholic shrine on the campus of Mount St.

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Related Topix: Emmitsburg, MD, Hagerstown, MD, World News, Offbeat

Fox News

Confusion Plagues Eve of Vote for EU's First President

The European Union is about to pick its very first president, a post conjured up after years of tortuous political machination to give the bloc a unified voice on the world stage.

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Related Topix: Lottery, Europe, Nicolas Sarkozy

BBC

'Female Viagra' discovery claim

A drug that failed tests as an antidepressant is being hailed as "Viagra for women" after surprising but not unpleasant side effects.

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Related Topix: World News, Erectile Dysfunction, Medicine, Health

The Star

Ras Dumisani 'under the influence'

By Peter Fabricius Foreign Editor Rastafarian singer Ras Dumisani was under the influence of something other than pure patriotism when he sang his own ghastly and controversial off-key version of the national anthem before the Springbok-France rugby match in Toulouse last Friday, according to French rugby sources.

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Tue Nov 17, 2009

The CW Washington, WDCW-TV

Police: French boy takes rifle to school, plans to shoot teachers; no one hurt

A 13-year-old French boy stole his father's hunting rifle and took it to school with the intention of shooting his teachers, but his family and police intervened before anyone was hurt, police said.

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Fox Charlotte

Hotel Lets Guests Live Like Hamsters

Ever wonder what it would feel like to be a hamster? Now you can find out. A hotel in Nantes, France, is offering people the chance to live like a rodent.

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Newswise

Viagra for Women? Drug Developed as Antidepressant Effective in Treating Low Libido

The drug flibanserin, which was originally created as an antidepressant, is effective in treating women with low libido, pooled results from three separate clinical trials have found.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, World News,

Telegraph.co.uk

Property in France: Driven to distraction by trying to register a British car in France

From everything I have read, registering a British car in France is to be avoided like Ikea on a rainy Sunday.

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