Paris police investigators think an electrical short-circuit most likely caused the fire at Notre Dame Cathedral, a police official said Thursday, as France paid a daylong tribute to the firefighters who saved the world-renowned landmark.
Read moreFueled by a lattice of centuries-old timbers, the fire moved hungrily across Notre Dame’s rooftop toward the cathedral’s iconic spire. It belched yellow smoke, spitting out gritty particles of wood, stone, lead and iron and wanted more. Far below, their vision obscured by fumes and tears, firefighters, priests and municipal workers passed treasures hand-to-hand, hoping the speed of desperation could outrun the flames.
Read moreNotre Dame Cathedral would have burned to the ground in a “chain-reaction collapse” had firefighters not moved as rapidly as they did to battle the blaze racing through the beloved landmark building, a French government official said Wednesday.
Read moreNearly $1 billion has already poured in from ordinary worshippers and high-powered magnates around the world to restore the fire-ravaged Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, after the French president set a five-year deadline to get the work done.
Read moreParis’ deadliest fire in over a decade claimed at least 10 lives Tuesday, sending fleeing residents to the roof and clambering across balconies as flames rapidly engulfed their nine-story apartment building.
Read moreParis Fire Department said rescuers have found a woman’s body under the rubble of a bakery in Paris that was blown apart by a powerful explosion, bringing the overall death toll to four.
Read moreTwo anti-gang French policemen are going on trial on charges of gang-raping a Canadian tourist at Paris police headquarters.
Read moreParis, the City of Lights, is pushing to become a city without so many car lights. Since taking office in 2014, Socialist Mayor Anne Hidalgo has pushed to remove more vehicles, especially gas-powered ones, from the boulevards of Paris, one of Europe’s most congested and smog-laden cities.
Read moreThe insurer that paid out more than $6.1 million to Kim Kardashian West for a 2016 robbery brought negligence claims Wednesday against the reality star’s former bodyguard.
Read moreThe themes and trappings are familiar for an Ernest Hemingway narrative: Paris, wartime, talk of books and wine and the scars of battle.
Read moreA French judicial official says the sole surviving suspect from the November 2015 Paris extremist attacks was in the judges’ office on Thursday for the sixth hearing since he was charged last year.
Read moreWorldwide investments in renewable energy need to dramatically overtake investments in fossil fuels as early as 2025 to meet United Nations climate-change goals, according to new research.
Read moreOwners of the bistros and terrace cafes that are integral to the Paris way of life want the “je ne sais quoi” of their establishments to be recognized as of broader value and endangered.
Read moreSurvivors and families of victims of the 2015 attack on Paris’ Bataclan concert hall have filed a legal complaint to find out why soldiers stationed nearby were ordered not to intervene when Islamic State gunmen stormed the venue.
Read moreVisitors at a leading contemporary art museum in Paris didn’t leave only their coats in the cloakroom — they left all their clothes.
Read moreThe Venezuelan extremist known as Carlos the Jackal went back on trial Monday for a deadly 1974 grenade attack on a Paris shopping arcade.
Read moreBraving a Siberian blast sweeping across Europe, around two dozen officials from the Paris region spent a night outdoors to call attention to the plight of the homeless.
Read moreThe Eiffel Tower has been closed because of bad weather conditions amid snowfall that has covered the French capital.
Read moreA French prosecutor has requested four years in prison for a man accused of harboring killers in the 2015 Islamic State attacks on Paris, less than the maximum term.
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