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1 week ago | 
edition.cnn.com | Caroline Baum
French police rescued the father of a cryptocurrency entrepreneur from his kidnappers Saturday night, but found he’d had one of his fingers severed – the latest in a spate of abductions tied to cryptocurrency.
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Jan 14, 2025 | 
theillawarraflame.com.au | Caroline Baum
Building on the success of the first Clifton School of Arts (CSA) Art Fair, held in 2022 as the community emerged from the Covid pandemic, the event is back for 2025. Organisers artist Vyvian Wilson and CSA president David Roach have tweaked the event to make it bigger and better.
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Dec 14, 2024 | 
smh.com.au | Caroline Baum
By Caroline Baum December 15, 2024 — 5.00am, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. This story is part of the December 15 edition of Sunday Life.See all 13 stories. When bestselling author Di Morrissey finished high school, she was at a bit of a loose end. Her mother could not afford to send her to university, so to make some money Morrissey fed the sharks at Sydney’s Manly Aquarium.
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Nov 8, 2024 | 
cnn.com | Caroline Baum |Rosa Rahimi
CNN — More than five years since a catastrophic fire destroyed large parts of the Notre-Dame cathedral in Paris, the bells of the historic church have rung once more. On Friday morning, eight of the cathedral’s bells tolled for the first time since April 2019, according to Alexandre Gougeon, who managed their installation. “Hearing the bells ring this morning was very moving,” Gougeon told CNN, adding that the project to install the bells had taken a year and a half.
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Oct 25, 2024 | 
accuweather.com | Joseph Ataman |Caroline Baum
Alpe du Grand Serre in France's Isère region has seen snowfalls decline in recent years. (Photo Credits: Tiphaine_Buccino/iStockphoto/Getty Images via CNN Newsource) Paris (CNN) — A large French alpine ski resort faced with declining snowfalls is to close after it failed to find funds to turn its pistes into year-round attractions.
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Oct 9, 2024 | 
msn.com | Joseph Ataman |Caroline Baum
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Oct 9, 2024 | 
channel3000.com | Joseph Ataman |Caroline Baum
Paris (CNN) — A large French alpine ski resort faced with declining snowfalls is to close after it failed to find funds to turn its pistes into year-round attractions. The Alpe du Grand Serre ski station in southwestern France’s Isère region will not reopen this year after a vote by its local council to halt funding for plans to end reliance on winter sports, the council’s president told radio station France Bleu.
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Oct 9, 2024 | 
aol.com | Joseph Ataman |Caroline Baum
October 9, 2024 at 9:31 AM Tiphaine_Buccino/iStockphoto/Getty ImagesA large French alpine ski resort faced with declining snowfalls is to close after it failed to find funds to turn its pistes into year-round attractions. The Alpe du Grand Serre ski station in southwestern France’s Isère region will not reopen this year after a vote by its local council to halt funding for plans to end reliance on winter sports, the council’s president told radio station France Bleu.
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Oct 9, 2024 | 
ktvz.com | Joseph Ataman |Caroline Baum
By Joseph Ataman and Caroline Baum, CNNParis (CNN) — A large French alpine ski resort faced with declining snowfalls is to close after it failed to find funds to turn its pistes into year-round attractions. The Alpe du Grand Serre ski station in southwestern France’s Isère region will not reopen this year after a vote by its local council to halt funding for plans to end reliance on winter sports, the council’s president told radio station France Bleu.
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Sep 3, 2024 | 
7news.com.au | Camille Knight |Emmanuel Miculita |Caroline Baum
A man is on trial accused of repeatedly drugging and raping his wife, as well as encouraging dozens of other men to rape her in their home while she was unconscious, court documents show. The alleged victim, Gisèle, 72, appeared in a courtroom in Avignon, France, on Monday for the opening of the trial, sunglasses on, her daughter and two sons by her side. For the next four months, she will come face-to-face with her accused abusers, most of whom are complete strangers to her.
