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When it comes to fighting off the invasion of English words, the French Resistance has had mixed fortunes over the years. Nevertheless, the fight goes on. With the help of the Ministry of Culture, here’s a list of the latest English terms that French authorities want deported. …

A BBC World Service opinion poll has found sharply higher overseas approval ratings for US President Barack Obama than Republican challenger Mitt Romney. … France was the most strongly pro-Obama (72%). …

Charles de Gaulle famously bemoaned the difficulties involved in running a country with 246 different types of cheese. But it seems world famous Gallic varieties including camembert, roquefort and brie are increasingly falling out of favour. Although the average Frenchman still eats almost a pound of cheese per week, making the country the second biggest consumer of the food in Europe after Greece, it is increasingly likely to be a processed foreign variety. New figures show raw-milk cheeses from rural France, which until the Second World War accounted for nearly all consumption, now make up just seven per cent of...

French are rudest, most boring people on earth: British poll Sat May 20, 3:17 AM ET LONDON (AFP) - The French have been voted the world's most unfriendly nation by a landslide in a new British poll published. They were also voted the most boring and most ungenerous. A decisive 46 percent of the 6,000 people surveyed by travellers' website Where Are You Now (WAYN) said the French were the most unfriendly nation people on the planet, British newspapers reported. The Germans have no to reason to celebrate the damning verdict. They came second on all three counts. WAYN's French...

Jihad-on-wheels, a mugging-à-go-go every 30 minutes or your money back 'Speed-z'y va 30', une agression toutes les 30 minutes ou vous êtes remboursé Sadly an ever more common event took place in Paris Wednesday morning at 8:45AM. A man wearing a keffiyeh and a helmet entered the City Hall of the 14 arrondissement wielding a club. He cried 'Allah akbar!' and clubbed a municipal security employee over the head. He then went to the police booth and clubbed a policeman on duty. He then fled by jumping on the back of the motorscooter of a waiting accomplice. Police officials are...

French 'calamity' carrier heads for sea - again By Julian Coman in Paris (Filed: 11/03/2001) ONE of the most embarrassing sagas in French maritime history took a further twist last week when France's most accident-prone warship began the countdown to another attempt to take to the high seas. In the Ministry of Defence and on the quayside at Toulon, where the 40,000-ton aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle had been dry-docked, sceptical observers crossed their fingers and prayed for a fair wind. The idea of France's first nuclear-powered carrier was dreamt up in 1986. It soon became a pet project of...