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Place la Bourse in Bordeaux.

Port guide: Bordeaux, France

Bordeaux is a lively, graceful city with more heritage-listed buildings than anywhere else in France except Paris – and famous vineyards nearby.

  • Brian Johnston

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The day Kim Kardashian got held at gunpoint, it was CNN's top-rating story online.

The reality TV star, her $4m ring and the ‘grandpa’ robbers who allegedly stole it from her

Kim Kardashian was bound with zip ties and duct tape during the heist at Paris Fashion Week, allegedly led by a man now nicknamed “Omar the Old”.

  • Elizabeth Pineau
Harold ‘Pompey’ Elliott outside a German headquarters captured in the 1918 Somme offensive.

Pompey Elliott and the butterflies of the Western Front

While making a crucial contribution to the war effort in April 1918, an Australian general and his men also managed to save a remarkable collection of art and fauna.

  • Ross McMullin
French far-right leader Marine Le Pen speaks in Paris on Sunday.

Marine Le Pen evokes Martin Luther King Jr as Trump criticises ‘witch hunt’

Before thousands of supporters in Paris, the far-right leader likened her battle against a court ruling to America’s struggle for civil rights.

  • Rob Harris
Pot-au-feu is a simple French dish of meat and vegetables.

Feu or pho? The French dish that probably inspired the Vietnamese classic

Pot-au-feu is a French classic, a one-pot wonder, a dish of meat simmered over many hours with vegetables and a bouquet garni.

  • Ben Groundwater
US President Donald Trump went to his golf course in Florida on Friday as the financial markets collapsed after his new tariffs.

After $10.4 trillion wipeout, US expected to fall into recession ‘under weight of tariffs’

While the White House says Trump’s plan is working, some Republicans have joined Democrats to introduce a bill to terminate new tariffs unless the US Congress approves them.

  • Michael Koziol and Rob Harris
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French President Emmanuel Macron holds a meeting in Paris on Thursday with representatives of industries affected by the US tariffs.

‘Brutal’: Macron vows to protect Europe after US lands shock trade blow

The French president has called on EU nations to stop all investment in the United States after Donald Trump announced a 20 per cent tariff on European imports.

  • James Crisp, Nick Squires, James Rothwell and Sarah Newey
French far-right leader Marine Le Pen, centre, reacts at the National Assembly during a session on Tuesday.

Victim or criminal? Le Pen appeal could deliver Trump-style shock to France

By disqualifying Marine Le Pen from the presidential race, the court has handed her an immense gift. Much like Donald Trump, she can position herself as a victim of an elite-driven conspiracy.

  • Rob Harris
Far-right leader Marine Le Pen poses prior to an interview on the evening news broadcast of French TV channel TF1, after the court decision.

French hard-right leader Le Pen banned from presidential run following conviction

In a ruling that potentially reshapes the European political landscape, a court has convicted the National Rally leader of embezzling European Union funds.

  • Rob Harris
Gerard Depardieu, left, arrives at his trial this week for the alleged sexual assaults of two women on a film set in 2021, with his lawyer Jeremie Assous.

Gerard Depardieu is standing trial for sexual assault. He says he doesn’t know what that means

The French actor, 76, told a court that placing a hand on someone’s buttocks isn’t sexual assault and that the #MeToo movement is “a form of hysteria”.

  • Juliette Jabkhiro

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