Briton sets afire French man dressed as Mummy
August 27th, 2012 - 9:39 pm ICT by IANS
London, Aug 27 (IANS) A French tourist who had wrapped himself in toilet paper to appear like an Egyptian mummy for a fancy-dress party in Sydney was allegedly set afire ... Read more...
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Olympics: Bolt breezes into 200m final
August 9th, 2012 - 2:31 pm ICT by IANS
London, Aug 9 (IANS/CMC) Usain Bolt is poised to defend his Olympic 200 metres title Thursday in a bid to cement his status as a sprint legend.
Bolt effortlessly breezed into ... Read more...
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French man held for drug trafficking
March 19th, 2012 - 6:57 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, March 19 (IANS) An Indian and a French man have been arrested here for alleged involvement in drug trafficking, police said Monday.Around 470 grams of 'charas' and three ... Read more...
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French tourist killed in Egypt
January 29th, 2012 - 8:27 am ICT by IANS
Cairo, Jan 29 (IANS) A 42-year-old French tourist was killed by robbers at a currency exchange shop in the Egyptian Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh, Xinhua reported.The masked gunmen ... Read more...
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Three accused of robbing French man get bail
June 14th, 2011 - 11:02 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, June 14 (IANS) A Delhi court Tuesday granted bail to three people, including a woman, accused of allegedly robbing a French man here two months ago.Additional District Judge ... Read more...
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Man claims Glaxo drug made him a ‘gay sex addict’
February 1st, 2011 - 9:01 pm ICT by Aishwarya Bhatt
Paris, Feb 1 (THAINDIAN NEWS) A 51-year-old French man claims that he was turned into a “compulsive gay sex addict” after taking a Parkinson’s drug. Didier Jambart is subsequently on the ... Read more...
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French Man Claims GlaxoSmithKline Drug Made Him Gay Sex Addict
February 1st, 2011 - 8:04 pm ICT by GD
By Gina Gomez
Nantes, Feb 1, (THAINDIAN NEWS) British drug maker GlaxoSmithKline is likely to face a lawsuit by a French man who claims that he was turned into a 'compulsive gay sex ... Read more...
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Bunch of unseen Picasso paintings found in France
November 30th, 2010 - 9:25 am ICT by IANS
London, Nov 30 (IANS) A huge cache of canvas painted by Pablo Picasso nearly 100 years ago were unveiled for the first time by a French man who claimed the art works ... Read more...
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Limbless man swims across English Channel
September 21st, 2010 - 12:54 am ICT by BNO News
KENT, ENGLAND (BNO NEWS) -- A French man is the first limbless man in history to swim across the 33-kilometer (20.5 miles) English Channel.Philippe Croizon, 42, of Chatelleraut, France, in 1994 ... Read more...
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Limbless Man Philippe Croizon Swims English Channel 10 Hours Early!
September 20th, 2010 - 9:33 pm ICT by Angela Kaye Mason
Sep 20 (THAINDIAN NEWS) After spending two years in preparation, a forty-two year old French man has managed to not only swim the English Channel, but to arrive a full 10 hours ... Read more...
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Limbless French man to swim English Channel next week
September 10th, 2010 - 6:55 pm ICT by ANI
London, Sept.10 (ANI): A limbless man, Philippe Croizon, has said that he will attempt to swim the English Channel next week.The Frenchman lost his limbs in an accident 16 years ago ... Read more...
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Man kills virgin wife of over 21 years
March 9th, 2010 - 1:46 pm ICT by IANS
London/Paris, March 9 (IANS) A French man killed his wife of over 21 years as she didn't want to have children, a media report said Tuesday. The man then told the police: ... Read more...
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Chandigarh struggling to save legacy of its architect
February 25th, 2010 - 9:30 am ICT by IANS
By Alkesh Sharma
Chandigarh, Feb 25 (IANS) Decades after master architect Le Corbusier designed Chandigarh, the only planned city in independent India, its administration is fighting to retrieve his artefacts which have been ... Read more...
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Frenchman Hugues De La Plaza’s Death Declared As Homicide
November 15th, 2009 - 8:13 pm ICT by GD
By Meena Kar
San Francisco, Nov. 15, (THAINDIAN NEWS) More than two years after the mysterious death of French Citizen Hugues de la Plaza, the investigation has reached the conclusion that it was ... Read more...
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German, French with Hindu mystics at Kamakhya debate miracles
June 23rd, 2009 - 11:21 am ICT by IANS
Guwahati, June 23 (IANS) A bizarre debate is raging at a revered Hindu temple in India's northeastern state of Assam with a French man and a German woman joining hundreds of mystics ... Read more...
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Definite clues to French national’s murder: police
May 28th, 2009 - 8:10 pm ICT by IANS
Puducherry, May 28 (IANS) A day after the brutal murder of French national Andre Voizat, who had settled down near the international township of Auroville here almost four decades ago, police Thursday ... Read more...
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Octogenarian mistakes fireman for thief, shoots him dead
March 18th, 2009 - 5:34 pm ICT by IANS
Paris, March 18 (DPA) An 85-year-old French man who is hard of hearing mistook a firefighter for a burglar and shot him to death, a police spokeswoman from the southern French city ... Read more...
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French man killed, 20 inujured in Cairo blast (Second lead)
February 23rd, 2009 - 5:20 am ICT by IANS
Cairo, Feb 23 (Xinhua) A French tourist was killed and 20 people were wounded in a blast in Cairo's populous al-Hussein district Sunday evening, the health ministry said in a statement.
The French ... Read more...
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French man turns rickshaw puller for research
January 11th, 2009 - 1:13 pm ICT by IANS
Patna, Jan 11 (IANS) A French man is pedalling a rickshaw in Bihar these days to understand the real problems of rickshaw pullers in India.John Lui, in his early 40s, says: "I ... Read more...
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Meet the man and woman with the Most Beautiful Bottoms in the world
November 13th, 2008 - 3:01 pm ICT by ANI
Melbourne, Nov 13 (ANI): In one of the most bizarre competitions, a Brazilian woman and a French man have walked away with the title of having the Most Beautiful Bottoms.In the ... Read more...
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Kidnapped French worker released in Afghanistan
June 20th, 2008 - 1:20 pm ICT by IANS
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Kabul, June 20 (DPA) A French man abducted along with his two Afghan colleagues in southern Afghanistan was released after three weeks in captivity, sources said Friday. A group of suspected Taliban ... Read more...
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Lost Brit divers fight off man-eating Komodo dragon to survive
June 8th, 2008 - 4:28 pm ICT by ANI
London, June 8 (ANI): Three British divers swept away by powerful currents in the shark-infested Indian Ocean have revealed how they fought off an attack by a man-eating Komodo dragon, the ... Read more...
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We could have prevented Dis crash: French policeman
November 23rd, 2007 - 1:00 pm ICT by admin
London, Nov 23 (ANI): Princess Diana could have survived, had the British embassy informed the French authorities about her presence in Paris, the inquest into her death has heard.Shortly after the 1997 ... Read more...
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