Election of Republican candidates

Chris Christie won local elections in New Jersey Tuesday, after the counting of 71% of ballots in Tuesday night to Wednesday and became governor of the state of the eastern United States. Similarly in Virginia...

Barack Obama : Nobel Peace 2009 award

U.S. President Barack Obama on Friday won a Nobel Peace for "his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation among peoples." On behalf of the American president had been mentioned...

Gisele Bündchen goes green for the United Nations!

We knew already committed to the environment. But the supermodel Gisele Bundchen has one last step to ecology: it is now a goodwill ambassador for the United Nations. A new very green, it was announced during a...

Big Apple : Best spot for french tourists

New York top 2008 is a record year for the number of French visitors to the Big Apple. With 561,000 French visitors to New York last year, or 33% more than in 2007, 2008 appears to be a record year in terms of...

cloud tube

With the end of the dry season in Australia, returns the time of morning glory clouds. We see the photograph above, the clouds are shaped tube. They can reach a mile high and a mile long. This cloud band moves...

The mastermind of the Bali bombing have been killed.

The most wanted man in Indonesia, Noordin Mohammed Top, was probably killed by a police officer during a raid by anti-terrorist forces two months after a double suicide bombing that killed nine people in Jakarta....

Monsoon rain and flash flooding in northern Indonesia

Heavy seasonal monsoon rains often cause severe flooding and landslides in Indonesia. Between Monday and Tuesday of torrential rains have yet hit the northern province of Sumatra. These rains have caused flash...

Aung San Suu Kyi will spend 18 months in detention

Nicolas Sarkozy Tuesday condemned a "brutal and unjust verdict" after the condemnation of the Burmese opponent Aung San Suu Kyi and three years' imprisonment, a sentence that the head of the Burmese junta has...

Carla Bruni-Sarkozy sing for Nelson Mandela in New York

Carla Bruni-Sarkozy was involved Saturday night in New York at a birthday concert for Nelson Mandela organized.The First Lady of France, who sang in public for the first time since her marriage to Nicolas Sarkozy...

Kelly Slater Claims Hang Loose Santa Catarina Pro

Kelly Slater (USA), 37, reigning nine-time ASP World Champion, has claimed the 2009 Hang Loose Santa Catarina Pro over an in-form Adriano de Souza (BRA), 22, in clean three-to-four foot waves at the main site of...

Preparation of the Olympic games in Vancouver looks "difficult"

Less than one year from the beginning of the Winter Games in Vancouver, the Organizing Committee (VANOC) said to expect eight months financially "very difficult". "We are not immune to the challenges caused by...

More than 2 million fine wines auctioned in New York

An auction of fine wines has exceeded Monday in New York on $ 2 million, doubling estimates of Sotheby's, which was mainly sold in Asia and on the Internet. The market had estimated revenue of the sale between 1...

Bordeaux wines triumph in America

Rolled by the crisis, the second-class wines seek to reverse their declining sales. Entering the U.S. market is one of the solutions. For many years, the wines of Bordeaux's most famous locomotive used and...

Barack Obama arrived in Normandy

U.S. President Barack Obama, who arrived Friday evening in Paris where he spends the night, went to Normandy on Saturday where, at Colleville-sur-Mer, near Caen, participate in the commemorations of the 65th...

Home a film by Yann Arthus Bertrand

Walking in the footsteps of Al Gore, Yann Arthus-Bertrand sign a film Home with artistic and activist who has a global distribution to warn about the threat climate. Unable to ignore Home, the new documentary by...
 

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