Lionel Messi opened his Parisian account in spectacular fashion as PSG gained a modicum of revenge for last season’s semi-final defeat
Amazon close to deal over Champions League rights in UK
10 Views0 Comments0 Likes
Amazon is close to securing a groundbreaking deal to broadcast Champions League football in the UK for the first time, marking a significant increase in its ambitions to become a major live sport broadcaster. The US i...
Paris attacker Salah Abdeslam found guilty of murder and jailed for life
9 Views0 Comments0 Likes
Salah Abdeslam, the only survivor of the 10-man unit that carried out coordinated terror attacks in Paris in 2015, has been found guilty of murder and sentenced to full life in prison, the toughest sentence available ...
Paris attacks trial to conclude after 10 months of harrowing testimony
7 Views0 Comments0 Likes
It was the biggest criminal trial ever held in France, where hundreds of people who survived the deadliest peacetime attack on French soil gave shocking details of their ordeal – from crawling past corpses at Paris’s ...
Paris attacks trial: accused given last chance to speak before sentencing
13 Views0 Comments0 Likes
The sole surviving member of a cell alleged to have carried out the November 2015 terrorist bombings and shootings across Paris insisted he was not a killer, as the nine-month trial drew to a close. “I’ve made mistake...
‘Unwanted junk’: Earth Goddess statue prompts unholy reaction in St Austell
13 Views0 Comments0 Likes
Towering above a square in the Cornish town of St Austell, it is the tallest ceramic sculpture in the UK and possibly the world, a south-west of England answer to the Angel of the North. But the installation this week...
Macron’s Europe minister braces for make-or-break Paris election
29 Views0 Comments0 Likes
Emmanuel Macron’s Europe minister, Clément Beaune, is at the heart of a brutal political battle in Paris this weekend as the centrist French government tries to win a parliamentary majority against a new leftwing alli...
Paris protesters celebrate saving trees around the Eiffel Tower
23 Views0 Comments0 Likes
Protesters in Paris are celebrating having saved more than 40 trees – one of them over 200 years old – from being chopped down or threatened with damage around the Eiffel Tower as part of a €72m scheme to create a hug...
Christo before Christo: Paris exhibition reveals artist’s earlier works
27 Views0 Comments0 Likes
Long before scaling the heights of the Reichstag in Berlin or the Pont Neuf in Paris, the artist known as Christo started on a much smaller scale. Having fled communist Bulgaria for Paris and working in a maid’s room,...