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Airbnb has secured a victory in its fight to avoid more regulation by city authorities after the European court of justice ruled that it acted as an “information society service” rather than a real estate agency. The EU court said the company did not require an estate agent’s licence to operate in France as it …

When I was younger and infinitely cooler, I spent brief stints working in Paris, both as a frazzled assistant during Fashion Week and with a group of aspiring writers on a new magazine – a very Parisian cliché. Despite my fondest hopes, I didn’t waste away in a cloud of absinthe and syphilis in the …

The gilets jaunes (yellow vests) movement marked a year of weekend demonstrations with protests across France. In Paris, groups of black-clad youths caused damages at a central square, smashing bus shelters, a bank and torching vehicles. Police responded by firing teargas and using water cannon against the protesters, only a few of whom were wearing …

For a long time scientists thought the fact that pigeons in urban environments often lost their toes was due to some form of infection, or was a reaction to chemical pollutants. But now researchers in France believe they’ve stumbled upon the real culprit: human hair. The team from the National Museum of Natural History and …

Hundreds of French police have begun clearing more than 1,000 migrants and refugees from a makeshift camp in northern Paris, where they had been sleeping rough in squalid conditions for months. Police arrived at the site near Porte de La Chapelle before 6am local time (0500 GMT) on Thursday, after the country’s centrist government set …

Media playback is unsupported on your device Media captionWatch Trump explain why he is pulling the US out of Paris climate accord The United States has formally notified the United Nations of its intention to withdraw from the Paris Agreement. The notification begins a one-year process of exiting the global climate change accord, culminating the …

Media playback is unsupported on your device Media captionWatch Trump explain why he is pulling the US out of Paris climate accord The US will definitely withdraw from the Paris climate agreement, President Trump has confirmed. He made the announcement at an energy conference in Pittsburgh on a stage flanked by men in hard hats. …

Kylie Jenner was hospitalized for flu-like symptoms this week, TMZ reported, and is now too ill to travel to Paris Fashion Week for work. The Kylie Cosmetics founder, 22, was reportedly supposed to present at the Emmys on Sunday night alongside sisters Kim Kardashian and Kendall Jenner but was too sick to attend the show. …

More than four fifths of the world’s largest companies are unlikely to meet the targets set out in the Paris climate agreement by 2050, according to fresh analysis of their climate disclosures. A study of almost 3,000 publicly listed companies found that just 18% have disclosed plans that are aligned with goals to limit rising …

Last week, US novelist Jonathan Franzen sparked heated debate with his New Yorker article wondering whether the best approach to the impending global climate crisis might be to “to admit we can’t prevent it.” The article, titled “What if we stopped pretending?” unleashed widespread outrage on Twitter, not least from climate scientists and experts, who …