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  • PSG's title celebrations marred by fan violence

    The celebration to honor Paris Saint-Germain's first French league title in 19 years was cut short Monday following fights between fans and riot police in which 30 people were injured.


  • Thousands of demonstrators, seen from the Eiffel Tower, gather on the Champs de Mars in Paris on Sunday, Jan. 13, 2013, to protest the French president's plan to legalize gay marriage. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)

    World Briefs: Gay marriage protest converges on Eiffel Tower

    Holding aloft ancient flags and young children, hundreds of thousands of people converged Sunday on the Eiffel Tower to protest the French president’s plan to legalize gay marriage and allow same-sex couples to adopt and conceive children.


  • Famed French actor Depardieu nabbed driving drunk

    French actor Gerard Depardieu has been briefly detained by police for allegedly driving drunk on his motorcycle.


  • Report: Depardieu briefly held for drunk driving

    French actor Gerard Depardieu was briefly detained by police for allegedly driving drunk on his motorcycle, according to a news report.


  • Report: Depardieu caught allegedly driving drunk

    French actor Gerard Depardieu was briefly detained by police for allegedly driving drunk on his motorcycle, according to a news report.


  • Gerard Depardieu caught allegedly driving drunk

    French actor Gerard Depardieu was detained Thursday for allegedly driving drunk on his scooter, police said.


  • Guns N' Roses singer robbed after Paris show

    Police say Guns N' Roses front man Axl Rose was robbed of three gold-and-diamond necklaces worth some $200,000 after the hard rock band's concert in Paris.


  • Illustration: Le Pickpocket by John Camejo for The Washington Times

    ALLEN: Chivalry lives in Paris

    Although my wife, Pat, and I have visited Paris dozens of times, we decided to re-create our initial experience of just over half a century ago in fall 1958 after disembarking the Queen Mary at Le Havre and taking the boat train to Paris. At that time, I was on the way to postgraduate studies in Germany, she was seven months expectant with the first of our seven children. Then, we stayed in an inexpensive hotel; this time, after surveying the price of hotel rooms, we rented a small, well-equipped and comfortable apartment at Villa Dancourt in Montmartre. We resolved to go everywhere by Metro, and bought five-day Paris Metro and museum passes.


  • Fashion designer John Galliano, centre, leaves a police station with his lawyer, Stephane Zerbib, right, in Paris, Monday, Feb. 28, 2011. Galliano arrived Monday at a Paris police station to face accusations that he made illegal anti-Semitic slurs, hours after a video emerged of the famed fashion designer praising Adolf Hitler. The Gibraltar-born designer, wearing a wide-brimmed black hat, made no comment to reporters as he entered to face claims by a couple that he made an anti-Semitic remark during a dispute at a trendy Paris cafe. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)

    Galliano faces anti-Semitism accusations in Paris

    Fashion designer John Galliano faced his accusers at a local Paris police station Monday, a couple who claim he made anti-Semitic slurs _ illegal in France _ after a video emerged of the famed creator praising Adolf Hitler.


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