New Ducasse Jules Verne restaurant re-opening in French Eiffel Tower: Chef Alain Ducasse just re-opened the Jules Vernes restaurant in the Paris famous Eiffel Tower, but how to cook the best food without gas cooking?

Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt arrived in France: The pair arrived with their four kids past week and were accompanied by two nannies and three security guards

Google Street View Meets Resistance In France: Google has begun to scan the streets of Paris as part of its Street View service, but the company may be hindered from publishing them unedited. The reason? French privacy laws. Google may be forced to blur faces or use low-resolution versions of the photographs.

Now forbidden by law to promote excessive skinniness in France: The French parliament's lower house has adopted a groundbreaking bill recently. It is quite literally, the first, and most powerful movement of its kind: the bill makes it illegal for anyone-and this includes fashion magazines and other media where models are utilized-to publicly incite "extreme thinness."

French anorexia law targets websites: French still lead the world! Promoting extreme thinness will become a criminal offence punishable with jail in France under a government-backed law that was tabled today to combat anorexia nervosa.

African Pirates a Notorious Threat, French yacht Ponant just enjoyed the experience in Somalia: After a luxury French yacht and its 30-strong crew were taken hostage by pirates off the coast of Somalia this month Prime Minister Francois Fillon is appealing to the UN for a global force against violent maritime crims.

French President Sarkozy'ex-wife to marry Publicis millionaire Richard Attias: French President Nicolas Sarkozy's ex-wife is to marry her Moroccan-born lover at New York's glitzy Rainbow Room. Cecilia Ciganer-Albeniz, 50, and Richard Attias, 48, a multi-millionaire events organiser, tied the knot at a black tie ceremony attended by 150 guests, many of whom flew in from Europe for the nuptials.

Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt will buy a new house in France: their neighbours on the same stretch of Provence coast include David and Victoria Beckham, and Elton John, Angelina and Brad Pitt might be buying soon a new house in the south of France

Bernard Kouchner, the foreign minister of France said that Magic is Over for the United States: for the French minister whoever succeeds President George W. Bush may restore something of the United States battered image and standing overseas, and that anyway the magic is over.

SARKOZY NEW LIFE, NO COMMENT BEFORE LOCAL POLL: French President Nicolas Sarkozy popularity has fallen so far and so fast that the guy who married the naked top model Carla Bruni now prefers to shut up!