It should have been third time lucky for a charity rowing team attempting to become the first to row from Big Ben to the Eiffel Tower and back but their latest attempt has also failed... more
From Aldgate, Cripplegate and Moorgate to the Statue of Liberty or Eiffel Tower, the Museum of Childhood is full of exquisite paper architecture for Cut it, Fold it, Build it with Paper... more
FRENCH police today arrested a man suspected of making several bomb threats in Paris, including one against the Gare Saint-Lazare. The man, in his fifties, was held in Meudon, south-west of the capital. There were nine recorded bomb alerts in Paris last month, two of them at the Eiffel Tower.... more
Islamist extremists seeking to carry out co-ordinated terror attacks in Britain, France and Germany remain at large in the UK despite efforts by intelligence chiefs to disrupt their plot... more
Masterpieces worth up to £430 million, including works by Picasso and Matisse, have been stolen during an audacious dawn raid on a Paris museum... more
In her next film, Olga Kurylenko plays a pagan queen – a fitting role for an imperious beauty driven by hunger and poverty to escape her deprived childhood in Ukraine... more
Sacha Baron Cohen's new comic creation, the latest instalment from Harry Potter at Hogwarts and adventures in the land of lizard men - here is our guide to the biggest movies of the season... more
Super-curator Nicolas Bourriaud has chosen some fascinating work for Altermodern, his survey of contemporary art — it's his theory that is flawed.... more
Forget the Eiffel Tower and the Golden Gate Bridge - this is a real feat of engineering. Amy Winehouse's beehive attained epic proportions yesterday, when she emerged from her house with more than 12 inches of hair piled on her head.... more
It's more than 15 years since Sharon Stone set pulses racing in that Basic Instinct scene, but yesterday she proved the infamous move is still second nature. Thankfully the actress, who turned 50 last month, showed a hint more constraint than her former alter ego Catherine Tramell as she addressed the audience at the Sorbonne university in Paris yesterday. The AIDs campaigner was attending the Cité de La Réussite - a forum, held every year in France, debates topics from culture, the economy, philosophy and politics
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Sound check: German industrial metal band Rammstein literally play with fire in their live performances - and now they are about to unleash their singeing spectacle on London. Watch out for your eyebrows
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