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Scientists Sent Bottles of Wine up in Space. This Is What It Tasted Like.
Wine experts in Bordeaux compared the aged cosmic wine to its terrestrial counterparts in a blind taste test to see if it really tasted out of this world.
How Europe's Vaccine Campaign Descended Into a Hot Mess
Petty squabbles and abrupt U-turns have seen French President Emmanuel Macron become the figurehead of Europe's new chaotic era.
‘They Tried To Cut Out My Tongue’: Blogger Survives Brutal Street Attack
Mahammad Mirzali, a vocal critic of Azerbaijan’s president, was attacked in broad daylight in the French city where he lives in exile. He said he feared his attackers were going to behead him.
Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy Sentenced to Three Years in Jail
In a landmark corruption case, French courts sentenced Sarkozy to three years in prison, two of which will be suspended.
QAnon Is So Big in France That Even the Government Is Worried
Authorities are investigating what kind of threat the conspiracy movement poses.
If You Thought the Culture War in the US and UK Was Dumb, Check Out France’s
French politicians are proudly using a new term – originally coined by the far-right – to paint left-wing academics as sympathetic to Islamist terrorists.
Inside the ‘Absurd’ Plan to Bring the Amazon Rainforest to a Grey Corner of Europe
‘Tropicalia’ is a £63 million project to build the world's largest single-domed tropical greenhouse, in a sleepy village in northern France.
A French Woman Who Says She Was Raped as a Child by 20 Firefighters Has Spent 10 Years Seeking Justice
Three of the accused admitted to what would be defined as rape in most of Europe, but said the 13-year-old had consented. There is no minimum age for sexual consent in France, making the case a lightning rod for activists.
Forbidden Doot: Scientists Blew an 18,000-Year-Old Conch and Recorded It
The conch is the oldest known shell instrument in the world, and this is what it sounds like.
Iranian Diplomat Jailed Over Plot to Bomb Dissident Meeting Attended by Rudy Giuliani
Assadollah Assadi and three accomplices were given sentences of between 15-20 years by a court in Belgium, in what is the first time an Iranian official has been convicted of terrorism outside Iran.
France Is Having Its Reckoning With Incest, in 2021
An explosive new book has forced French society to finally confront its dark recent history with accepting, even indulging, those who sexually abuse children.
France Passes Law Protecting Cow Poop and Duck Quacks as 'Sensory Heritage'
The legislation comes after numerous cases of wealthy French urbanites suing local residents because their animals were too ‘noisy.’