The owner of a security company has gone on hunger strike outside a French tax collectors office, in protest at taxes that he says threaten to sink his firm.
A love-struck vandal has sprayed two kilometres worth of graffiti in the northern town of Caen in a bid to let a girl called Manon know that he or she was desperately in love with her.
A Canadian university professor has claimed he was kicked out of a McDonald’s restaurant on the Champs-Elysées in Paris because he was wearing a pair of computer-assisted glasses.
<p><span lang="EN-GB">Two separatists were arrested on July 14th after stealing 38 French flags in the Savoie department to mark their condemnation of the French state and the National Bastille Day.</span></p>
<p><span lang="EN-GB">A large majority of French people say France is the best country to live, study and work in. Who said the French were dissatisfied with their own lot?<br /></span></p>
<p>Two Algerian volleyball players were caught shoplifting in the northern city of Lisieux, where the women were training for the 2012 Olympic Games.</p>
<p>Two cyber attacks have hit the presidential Elysée Palace in the last couple of months, daily Le Télégramme reports. Officials suspect the attacks originated in China. </p>
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<p>A cow has escaped a slaughterhouse in the Alps and has been on the run since last week. Brigitte Bardot's animal welfare foundation says it wants to give the renegade cow a home. </p>
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<p>An aggressive crow has been harassing a cleaning lady in a town near Belfort in the east of France. Authorities have decided to hunt the bird down.</p>
