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  • 5 days ago | observer.co.uk | Kim Willsher

    That surprise swipe by his wife left France’s president looking ridiculous to his people Historically, France has had a laissez-faire attitude towards politicians’ private lives. So-called “Anglo-Saxon” sex scandals baffle them and foreign journalists are warned questions stop at the bedroom door. The Socialist president François Mitterrand led a double life with a secret mistress and child, who were no secret to the country’s self-censoring media but were hidden from the public.

  • 3 weeks ago | theguardian.com | Kim Willsher

    The night armed robbers tied up Kim Kardashian and forced her to hand over jewels worth millions of dollars left her traumatised and changed her life for ever, her best friend and fashion stylist told a Paris court. Speaking for the first time since the 2016 attack in Paris, Simone Harouche said she thought the American TV star was being raped and that they would both die when she was woken from her sleep in the early hours by the sound of Kardashian’s terrified screams.

  • 1 month ago | theguardian.com | Kim Willsher

    Children under the age of six should not be exposed to screens, including television, to avoid permanent damage to their brain development, French medical experts have said.

  • 1 month ago | theguardian.com | Kim Willsher

    Changes to France’s pension system have been a hot potato for French presidents for decades, bringing disgruntled people on to the streets, leading to civil unrest and nationwide strikes that have brought the country to a standstill. Two years ago, in the face of bitter opposition, Emmanuel Macron, France’s president, passed a law raising the general retirement age from 62 to 64 and the issue appeared to have been put to bed.

  • 1 month ago | theguardian.com | Kim Willsher

    At first glance, there doesn’t seem to be anything special about the sea bass circling around a tank in the small scientific facility on the outskirts of Palavas-les-Flots in southern France. But these fish are on a mission. When fully grown, they will produce offspring that will be the first to be launched into space as part of a scientific project called Lunar Hatch that is exploring whether sea bass can be farmed on the moon – and eventually Mars – as food for future astronauts.

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