Athletes who were approved to compete at the Olympics under a neutral flag can only “experience the event” – likely watching from near the river.
Despite facing the same pressures as other global cities,Paris has a deliberate strategy to retain its poorer citizens – and it spends a lot of money doing so.
It is enormous at 18 metres tall and 48 tonnes,with dozens of human passengers riding on its head,shoulders and flanks.
With so many centuries of history seeped into its walls,it’s practically a portal to the Middle Ages.
More than 35 stars of the international literary scene will feature as part of the 2024 Sydney Writers’ Festival.
The French government,the City of Paris,and the 2024 organising committee remain determined to stage the ceremony on the Seine – but security agencies aren’t so sure.
A five-day hike around Mont Ventoux,the southern France mountain that strikes fear into the hearts of Tour de France cyclists every few years,is equally confronting and rewarding.
France has become the first country to enshrine the right to abortion in its Constitution,a move welcomed by women’s rights groups as historic and harshly criticised by anti-abortion groups.
The French president dared to raise the taboo subject,drawing the ire of the Kremlin that said a wider war would be inevitable.
This sort of dining is an institution on almost all cruise ships,as is the tendency to wildly overindulge.
“We hear a lot about the infrastructure and heritage that will be left by the Olympic Games,but we already have an ancestral heritage.”