Happy Birthday, Louis XV, King of France GroundReport | Written by Liz Colville | King Louis XV of France was known as “the Well-Beloved,” although he apparently did little to earn the name. He reigned for nearly 60 years over an unstable country whose financial and political dec...
Happy Birthday, Jules Verne, Science Fiction Author GroundReport | Written by Lindsey Chapman | Jules Verne was a pioneer in literature. With a powerful interest in writing and an imagination that was ahead of his time, Verne became a dominant figure in the science fiction world, writing about ideas that often did...
French interior minister claims some civilisations 'superior’ The Daily Telegraph France’s conservative interior minister in charge of immigration policy has sparked controversy by claiming some civilisations are “superior” to others. | French Interior Minister Claude Gueant Photo: FRANCOIS GUILLOT/AFP/Gett...
France convicts Google Maps for unfair competition PhysOrg | In a ruling Tuesday, the Paris court upheld an unfair competition complaint lodged by Bottin Cartographes against Google France and its parent company Google Inc. for providing free web mapping services to some businesses. | The court ordered Googl...
France's Sarkozy to launch presidential election campaign The Star | PARIS (Reuters) - French President Nicolas Sarkozy was set to formally declare his candidacy for a second term on television on Wednesday, hoping to overcome deep unpopularity with a short and intense campaign. France's President Nicolas Sarkozy visits the "La France en relief" exhibition at the Grand Palais in Paris, February 14, 2012. REUTERS/T...
Plasmas torn apart: Physicists make discovery that hints at origin of phenomena like solar flares PhysOrg | The source of that storm—and others like it—was the sun's magnetic field, described by invisible field lines that protrude from and loop back into the burning ball of gas. Sometimes these field lines break—snapping like a rubber band pulled too tight—and join with other nearby lines, releasing energy that can then launch burst...
