The Latest Breaking News from Paris

Kenzo House: Parisian urban haven comes on the market

Kenzo House in Paris comes on the market, offering a slice of Zen within the heart of the French capital

Wallpaper · Apr 18, 2023

Boost for British travellers as EU pushes back post-Brexit border checks

Exclusive: Planned fingerprint and facial biometric checks will be delayed until ‘after Paris Olympics’

The Independent UK · Apr 18, 2023

Council of Europe rules France violated charter on disabled people's rights

The Council of Europe has condemned France for not respecting disability rights in accessing education, healthcare and public transport, following a complaint lodged in 2018. Whilst not legally binding, the decision piles on the pressure some 500 days before the Paris Olympics, which thousands of disabled people are expected to…

Radio France Internationale · Apr 18, 2023

Despair, dismay and anger as court acquits Air France, Airbus over Rio disaster

A French court on Monday acquitted Air France and plane manufacturer Airbus in a trial over the 2009 crash of a Rio-Paris flight in which 228 people lost their lives.

Radio France Internationale · Apr 17, 2023

Air France and Airbus cleared of manslaughter in Flight 447 Rio-Paris plane crash

The ruling effectively means that ‘sleeping’ pilots Marc Dubois, David Robert and Pierre-Cedric Bonin were fully responsible

Evening Standard · Apr 17, 2023

Jojo Gronostay: capturing the close-up brutalism of the everyday

Photographer Jojo Gronostay presents his series "Brutalism" at the 104 cultural centre (Le Centquatre) in Paris. With this series of photos of used shoe heels, found in Accra, Ghana, which looks like a succession of monuments of brutalist architecture, Jojo Gronostay questions the economic, political and cultural exchanges between the…

Radio France Internationale · Apr 17, 2023

Air France and Airbus cleared of involuntary manslaughter over 2009 crash

Paris court clears aviation giants over disaster that killed 228 people flying from Rio de Janeiro to Paris

The Guardian - UK · Apr 17, 2023

Air France NOT guilty of manslaughter of 228 on flight which crashed into Atlantic

Five British nationals and three Irish doctors were among the 228 passengers killed after the doomed Flight 447, an Airbus 330 that was travelling from Rio de Janeiro to Paris, crashed into the Atlantic Ocean

Daily Mirror · Apr 17, 2023

Slovakia joins Poland, Hungary in banning imports of Ukrainian grain

Slovakia's government on Monday approved a ban on imports of Ukrainian grain and other food products, following similar moves by Poland and Hungary. The news came after US Ambassador to Russia Lynne Tracy said she had made a first visit in jail to Evan Gershkovich, a Wall Street Journal reporter…

France 24 · Apr 17, 2023

Poem of the week: The Bin-Men Go on Strike by Raymond Queneau

Discovering treasure in what the world has discarded, this freewheeling reverie carries with it radical ideas about art

The Guardian - UK · Apr 17, 2023