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May 20, 2013
3:05 pm
More than 8,000 French households' tax bills topped 100 percent of their income in 2012, according to a French newspaper report. Citing data from France's finance ministry, the business newspaper Les Echos reported on Friday that in addition to those taxed at over 100 percent last year, almost 12,000 households paid taxes worth more than 75 percent of their 2011 income and that a further 9,910 households were taxed at more than 85 percent of their income.
May 18, 2013
9:49 am
France's Francois Hollande signed gay marriage into law, but many French remain deeply opposed.
May 17, 2013
6:34 pm
Actor Christoph Waltz among those running after man shoots starter's pistol into the air at film festival stage.
May 17, 2013
1:12 pm
Thieves break into hotel room, rip safe from wall to reach Chopard booty at Cannes film fest.
May 17, 2013
12:19 pm
France's president is calling for a more closely integrated euro zone with its own full-time president and a harmonized tax system.
May 17, 2013
12:14 pm
A quarter of gay people surveyed in an EU poll say they have been attacked or violently threatened in the past five years.
May 16, 2013
12:30 pm
The man was said to be known to police and had a history of depression and marital troubles.
May 16, 2013
11:36 am
International films to watch as they vie for the Palme d'Or.
May 16, 2013
11:24 am
The movie portraying former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn's fall from grace has proved controversial from the start.
May 15, 2013
4:41 pm
An Al-Qaeda-linked terror cell is reportedly uncovered in Egypt.
May 15, 2013
2:40 pm
Baz Luhrmann's film adaptation of the F. Scott Fitzgerald's opened the prestigious festival the same day it made its European debut.
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