Amelie Mauresmo defeated Jelena Jankovic 6-2, 0-6, 6-1 Saturday in the Open GDF Suez semifinals to set up a meeting with Elena Dementieva, who advanced after top-ranked Serena Williams withdrew with of a knee injury.
Gas at $1.65 per gallon. Cruises for $50 a day (or less). And hotels that are throwing in everything from complimentary breakfast to discount massages. Will 2009 turn out to be the best travel year ever — or will the miserable economy have us all hiding beneath our beds with what little money we managed to get under the mattress before it all went to hell?
Demonstrators rallying in support of protesters in Greece scuffled with police and spilled onto the Champs-Elysees Friday, partly blocking the capital's most famous avenue.
Most actors tend to fall into one of two categories: those who loathe watching themselves on screen, and those who don’t. Jennifer Aniston, it would seem, falls staunchly in the latter category.
While it’s only been nine months since Jennifer Lopez gave birth to twins Max and Emme, baby-bump watchers may want to keep the singer in their sights. According to , Lopez and proud papa Marc Anthony are already planning to broaden their brood.
As the race to offer the first commercially viable electric car charges up, automakers hoping to cash in on environmental concerns displayed a slew of models at the Paris Motor Show on Friday.
Auto executives agree: their industry is headed into a giant storm.
Pop culture sure moves quickly. Just last week, Paris Hilton was so 20 minutes ago. And John McCain was drawing snickers from pop culture aficionados for choosing her and another relative has-been, Britney Spears, in his attack ad against Barack Obama.
Once again, spies spotted Lindsay Lohan slipping off the wagon. In January, photogs caught Lindsay drinking champagne from the bottle. Later that same month she was seen sipping vodka cocktails while partying with pals. Now People reports the thrice-rehabbed star was back on party circuit in the wee hours of Sunday morning.
Just 24 hours after she called Kim Kardashian’s derriere “disgusting,” Paris Hilton issued a heartfelt apology to her former BFF. Speaking to In Touch, the celebutante explained that she now regrets the backside bashing.
New movie offers just keep coming in for Lindsay Lohan. Last month the 21-year-old accepted a part in the upcoming “Manson Girls,” where she’ll play one of Charles Manson’s devoted followers. Now The Sun reports LiLo’s agreed to shed her threads for a role in a low-budget film.
It took them ages to mend them friendship after that famously vague feud of 2005, and now Star magazine reports Paris Hilton and Nicole Richie are at it again.
She gave birth less than two weeks ago, but Jennifer Lopez already has diva-worthy digs set up for twins Max and Emme. With a color therapist, a masseuse and a private present suite, the babes won’t want for a thing, the Daily Mirror reports.
It seems the world is safe for pizza delivery boys and male shipping heirs — at least for now. Paris Hilton is reportedly stepping out with the ladies.
With an estimated net worth topping $250 million, Tom Cruise stands to leave some big bucks to his kids one day. That is, if he doesn’t spend it all first. The A-list actor isn’t exactly frugal. Instead he’s flashing the cash and living large, reports Star.
Her plethora of pooches doesn’t have any say about it, but Paris Hilton recently learned that humans fight back when she contemplates adding them to her menagerie. While in Russia, the globe-trotting heiress offered to “adopt” a couple of adult actors who failed to find any humor in her request, the Daily Star reports.
Engaging in the kind of behavior that generally results in a restraining order, Paris Hilton ran down ex-boyfriend Stavros Niarchos at the Art Basel festivities in Miami last week, according to the .
In a Nov. 13 story, The Associated Press incorrectly reported that Paris Hilton was praised by conservationists for highlighting the problem of binge-drinking elephants in northeastern India. Lori Berk, a publicist for Hilton, said she never made any comments about helping drunken elephants in India.
David Nalbandian beat Rafael Nadal 6-4, 6-0 Sunday to win the Paris Masters and clinch his second straight Masters title after winning in Madrid last month.
Rafael Nadal will play David Nalbandian in the Paris Masters final, and Richard Gasquet clinched the last spot in the season-ending Masters Cup despite losing his semifinal.
David Nalbandian beat Roger Federer for the second time in less than two weeks on Thursday, earning a 6-4, 7-6 (3) victory in the third round of the Paris Masters.
Thirty-three-year-old Swiss conductor Philippe Jordan has been named music director at the Opera National de Paris, filling a position that's been vacant since American James Conlon left in 2004.
The City of Light wants to soon become a city of bicycles. Paris City Hall announced it has selected French outdoor advertising firm JCDecaux SA to operate a new free bicycle service in the capital.
The most important report on the science of climate change for six years is set for release on Friday 2 February, and leaks suggest it will be an alarming read.
China has condemned what it calls the illegal auction in Paris of two bronze artefacts taken from a Chinese palace 150 years ago. It has also warned Christie's auction house of unspecified consequences.
Bistro cooking—simple, homey, and affordable—is one of my favorite things in Paris. However, it's not really the type of cooking for which the city is renowned. Haute cuisine, the kind that's prepared by an army of toque-wearing chefs, is what many imagine French food to be.
PARIS — From lawyers in Paris to factory workers in China and bodyguards in Colombia, the ranks of the jobless are swelling rapidly across the globe.
a perspective and message with a beat:)
A popular bicycle rental scheme in Paris that has transformed travel in the city has run into problems just 18 months after its successful launch. Over half the original fleet of 15,000 specially made bicycles have disappeared, presumed stolen.
It's closing time at a market in Belleville, a working-class neighborhood in Paris, and a young woman in a black parka and white cap is rummaging through the abandoned crates.
John Cleese dumps his 20 something Barbie ( that's her real name) girlfriend after she jokes about his "package" one time too many, Madonna whups up on Guy again, and more gossip-with-an-attitude... 'cause life's a b*tch and so am I.
I don't know if I would have been able to identify this as a European outing judging the album by the art work on the front, but I could have made a good guess.
Generally surrounded by burger bars and sex shops, Paris train stations are understandably absent from most people's lists of tourist attractions. However, Paris' five grand stations date from a time when train travel was exotic, exciting, even elitist.
The American author Thomas Wolfe, in his 1935 novel Of Time and the River, wrote about "the corrupt and sensual, subtle and obscene" odors of the café mingling smoke and alcohol and humanity.
PARIS - Some 123,000 protesters marched through Paris and many other French cities Saturday, the interior ministry said, to denounce Israeli's offensive in Gaza and express support for the Palestinian cause.
Campaigners for the rights of black French people used a Barack Obama look-alike Monday in video clips denouncing what they say is discrimination by police who stop and search black people more than others.
Britain, Germany, France..... and people still wonder why it is that Jews feel the need for having their own State?
Mass demonstrations are being held around the world in protest at Israel's military offensive against Hamas, as the campaign enters its second week.
Earlier this morning, we posted a letter that carried the name of Bertrand Delanoë, the mayor of Paris, sharply criticizing Caroline Kennedy. This letter was a fake. It should not have been published.
THE French have elevated many things to high art: fashion, flirting, foie gras. Chocolate is no exception. With boutiques that display truffles as rapturously as diamonds, the experience of visiting a Parisian chocolatier can be sublime.
"Honorary Parisian citizenship was bestowed upon kidnapped IDF soldier St.-Sgt. Gilad Schalit on Tuesday, on the initiative of MP Claude Goasguen, who is also mayor of the 16th arrondissement (municipality) of Paris.
HEMA, a Dutch department store of national fame, will be exporting it's brand to France, opening a store near Paris soon. The proverbial sausage (HEMA Rookworst) will not be available, though.
Thought for this week a trip back in time might be fun. Some. my globe-trotting Daughter and her friends use as Treasure hunts to see what they look like today. All photos were 35 mm slides and taken by either my American Father or myself.
An uncommon protest: all the cool kids are doing it. ;) "Taking your clothes off outside 10 days before Christmas shows real conviction."
Explosives were placed in the Printemps store in Paris by an until now unknown group, demanding the retreat of French troops from Afghanistan.
Five explosive devices were defused in a large store in the center of Paris on Tuesday, French police said.
Great short post about postcard collecting.
PARIS - Paris is about to get the world's first "Cinema Street", with Europe's busiest cinema at one end, a major film library in the middle, and at the other end a revamped cinematheque that innovates the way viewers watch movies.
The plight of Ms. Guérin is being replicated all over France, as traditional cafes and bars suffer and even close, hit by changing attitudes, habits and now a poor economic climate.