Eating out gets cheaper for the French, as their government prepares to reduce tax on restaurant and cafe sales.

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A waxwork of U.S. President Barack Obama - cast with somber demeanor - is put on display in front of the Eiffel Tower.

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As Men’s Fashion Week gets under way in Paris, we talk to designers Jean-Paul Gaultier, Bruno Pieters and Francisco van Benthoum, stylist Paul Helbersand, and the CEOs of Hugo Boss and Louis Vuitton.

Paris Men’s Fashion Week avec Jean-Paul Gaultier

Paris Men’s Fashion Week: tour d’horizon de l’été 2010 avec Hugo Boss, Vuitton, et Gaultier

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Sudan’s leader Omar al-Bashir may be the target of an international arrest warrant, but for a mining company affiliated to France’s nuclear giant Areva, relations with the war-torn African country are about big money.

Une mine dor pour la France et le Soudan

Dans l’Est du Soudan, une entreprise pilotée par Areva exploite une mine à ciel ouvert qui produit chaque année plus de 2 tonnes d’or. Cet accord a été signé après le coup d’état qui a mené au pouvoir l’actuel président, Omar El Béchir.

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The body of the Air France pilot whose plane crashed in the Atlantic - killing 228 people - has been pulled from the ocean.

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Even as some Western leaders try to ease tensions with the Muslim world, the president of France is refusing to accept one display of Muslim identity. President Nicolas Sarkozy is declaring that the Islamic burqa is not welcome in France.

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A new Tarzan exhibition has opened at a museum in Paris, aiming to show how the stories and films about the jungle hero have helped to form western attitudes towards Africa.

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About 30 supporters of the group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals have stripped down to their undies in Paris to protest bullfighting.

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Avant d’Acheter : reportage sur l’innovation des boulangers.

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Le Bourget Air show opened its doors in a difficult time for the aeronautics industries.

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Last year I had one of my blogs hacked.
The content of the blog was not specific to any one particular topic, it was rather a general blog, but it did target both Russian and African scammers.
Since then it’s been in mothballs. Hence my spin off blogs ‘The Wine Connoisseur‘ and this blog.
Yesterday I decided to recycle the non time sensitive content of my old blog, and I also added new e-mail scams ‘E-mail blacklist’ to it. Instead of having the blog on my own domain, I’ve put it on Blogger (http://zoqy.blogspot.com) so that I need not worry about hacking and having my main database messed with.
For the last few days I’ve been busy adding content to my new blog, so now there is a broad mix. I will also be adding new content, the topics of which are not really suited for either of my other two main blogs.
Needless to say I’m also happy to offer link exchange (Link Trade) with my new blog.

A Random Photo Moment

Just Finished Reading

Assegai by Wilbur Smith

This is classic Wilbur Smith. It has a hero, a villain, a beautiful woman (if flawed), natives and a stunning African backdrop. WS is a master at painting the landscape of Africa. His last couple of novels have not been that great, but this one sees him return to form. It is a true ‘Boys Own’ style adventure.

Amazon Description
It is 1913 and ex-soldier turned professional big game hunter, Leon Courtney, is in British East Africa guiding rich and powerful men from America and Europe on safaris in the Masai tribe territories. One of his clients, German industrialist Count Otto Von Meerbach, has a company which builds aircraft and vehicles for the Kaiser’s burgeoning army. But Leon had not bargained for falling passionately in love with Eva, the Count’s beautiful and enigmatic mistress. Just prior to the outbreak of World War I, Leon is recruited by his uncle, Penrod Ballantyne, Commander of the British Forces in East Africa, to gather information from Von Meerbach. He stumbles on a plot against the British involving the disenchanted survivors of the Boer War, but it is only when Eva and Von Meerbach return to Africa that Leon finds out who and what is really behind the conspiracy.

About the Author
Wilbur Smith was born in Central Africa in 1933. He was educated at Michaelhouse and Rhodes University. He became a full-time writer in 1964 after the successful publication of When the Lion Feeds, and has since written over thirty novels, all meticulously researched on his numerous expeditions worldwide. His books are now translated into twenty-six languages.

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The Gulf carrier Qatar Airways ordered 24 planes from Airbus as the world’s largest airshow opened in Paris amid a tough time for the aviation industry.

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Obama’s Mideast Envoy meets French foreign minister in Paris and repeats calls for a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict; France regrets the brutal reaction of Ahmadinejad’s government after the election in Iran.

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Demonstrations in various towns across France.

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Friture paques

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