That sound you hear is the frogs salivating at the chance it might be Lance.

The dead will have to be buried in coffins, in accordance with French law, rather than simply using shrouds, although talks are planned to see if the law can be relaxed to accommodate Muslim customs.

Air France passengers had to wait until this morning to know whether they would fly, and some who were told earlier that things looked good were later disappointed.

Egypt cannot raise money in order to import food. 40,000,000 Egyptians live on $2 a day, spending half on food. Many towns have already seen bread riots. Egypt's government tried selling $580 million worth of Treasury bills with yields of 16% on January 22. Only a third of the bonds sold. The Egyptian Central Bank will most likely devalue the currency, causing a rise in food prices.

French state aircraft and warships are no longer using Turkish airspace and territorial waters after permission requests in three different cases were rejected by the Turkish government

French Interior Minister Gueant causes uproar

Nicolas Sarkozy has been promising to cut back on his presidential spending, but he’s actually splashing out £10,000 a day on food and keeps 121 cars under the Elysee Palace, according to a new book. Socialist MP Rene Dosiere, in L'argent de l'État (Money from the State), sets out what he sees as extraordinary excesses by the French President. In the explosive book, he accuses Sarkozy of ‘ignoring the most elementary principles of the separation between private and public accounts’.

The Carolingian union is all that anybody in French public life can really remember. It worked marvellously for two generations, levering French power on the global stage, and the euro was of course their own creation, intended to tie down a reunited Germany with “silken cords”. How can they now face the awful truth that this elegant strategy has blown up in their faces, enthroning Germany as undisputed hegemon?

Total holds a 32.5 stake in Block B, which covers most of Jonglei, an eastern state bordering Ethiopia that has been wracked by ethnic violence. The United Nations says more than 1,000 people were killed in battles between the Murle and Lou Nuer tribes in 2011, including a series of attacks that began late in December.

DECRYPTAGE Sauf revirement de dernière minute, Dassault peut se targuer d'avoir remporté le plus gros contrat de toute l'histoire de l'aviation de combat. Mais comment l'avionneur français a-t-il donc réussi à convaincre l'Inde d'acheter son Rafale ?

In June 2000, when American medical regulators posted a warning letter on the Internet about problems at a breast-implant maker in southern France, French authorities didn't pay much attention. A U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) inspection had found some products manufactured by Poly Implant Prothese (PIP) were "adulterated," the letter said. French regulators say they can't be sure now if they even saw it on the FDA's website. In the following decade, substandard silicone implants made by PIP were implanted into hundreds of thousands of unwitting women around the world. The French government in December advised 30,000 women to have their implants removed, warning the devices had an unusually high rupture rate and may contain industrial-grade silicone.

Proof that even a blind squirrel will sometimes find a nut.

“It could be understood from the French ambassador’s questions and the way he negotiated that he does not want sanctions to be imposed on Iran’s oil imports by the European Union and wants the plan calling for a halt to Iran’s oil exports to Europe to be scrapped,” the MP added.

FLOUR BOMBED: France's Socialist election frontrunner Francois Hollande is attacked with a shower of flour by a woman in the audience during a speech on housing in Paris

"In fact, early withdrawal of French forces after killing four soldiers in Kapisa province by Taliban, is a retreat in war on terror which eventually will encourage Taliban and al-Qaida fighters to intensify attacks against international forces based in Afghanistan,"

Mark Grant, the voluble “wizard” of Southwest Securities who is uber-bearish on Europe, warns that the market may be ignoring a significant event risk in France: the increasingly likely election of Socialist candidate Francois Hollande. shit he should read fuckfrance hes three months behinD the curve......SNORT!

A French commercial court has found Google guilty of abusing the dominant position of its Google Maps application and ordered it to pay a fine and damages to a French mapping company.

First sale for the Rafale. And a very big one!

Chest focus on the job, Monsieur Mitterand.

It is possible, though, to conceive of another, quite different scenario that would have the effect of changing the political face of today's Europe almost as much. Instead of handing more power to the far right, Europe could take a decisive turn to the left. France, where the first round of the presidential election takes place on 22 April, will be the first test of this hypothesis. Going left is the way to go frogs, take your rightful place leading europe.

Pay up, bitches!

French President Nicolas Sarkozy will announce tax rises Sunday, including a hike of 1.6 percentage points in value-added sales tax on goods and services, government sources said. The aim is to shift the burden of paying for social security from employers to consumers in a reform, condemned by opposition socialists, that Sarkozy's centre-right government wants to push through before elections in April that he is tipped to lose.

Europe takes a further lurch downwards towards its destiny of becoming an especially poverty-stricken part of the Third World. Disease, starvation, homelessness, civil unrest, violence in the streets, and a cold, miserable life followed by a horrid death await you all. Sorry about that, but hey, shit happens.

Why stop at censoring pro-Nazi tweets? What would be next? No menion of "Fuck France" or "Big Mac's"? Can't the Fwench stand the idea of anyone tweeting against them?

French police on Thursday arrested Jean-Claude Mas, the founder of Poly Implant Prothese (PIP). The company is at the centre of an international health scandal over breast implants using non-medical grade silicon.

All those poor fronch women with their fake titties just waiting for some invading army to touch them.

Off-the-record comments by French President Nicolas Sarkozy about his potential defeat in forthcoming presidential elections, which were made public by the French press, have left observers pondering the true purpose of the remarks.

Like all fronchmen, even Jewish dwarf fronchmen, Sarko knows his destiny is defeat. Besides his good buddy Barrack Hussein is about to take a shellacking in November.

Aibust says "The A380 is safe to fly," yet the Federal Secretary of the Australian Licensed Aircraft Engineers Association says " I would be worried that Airbus aren't taking seriously the ever increasing number of cracks being found in the wings of their A380 aircraft. Put it this way, I wouldn't put my family on an A380 at the moment ,"

Bonjeour Frogs - you retards really do deserve this - enjoy your new Prezident This guy makes Alain Juppe' (or whatever that queers name is ) and his 35 'work' week look brilliant. Shouting and waving his fist, Hollande said he would rein in banks with a law separating their loan-making businesses from their "speculative" operations. "Who is my adversary? It is the world of finance," Hollande said to cheers from the audience. He pledged to eliminate stock options and to tighten regulations on bonuses, as well as pass a tax on financial transactions.

Turkish fury at French vote on Armenian genocide law - Franco-Turkish protesters near the Senate in Paris. 23 Jan 2012 Thousands of Turks converged on Paris to protest against the proposed bill

The frnch may pull out of Afghanistan after 4 french troops were killed in the rear with the gear, while training Afghan troops in the use of white flags and running away.

"Airbus emphasizes that these cracks do not affect the safe operation of the aircraft."

Another domino begins to fall and another victory in the "American War Against the Euro". German Jews are urged to flee to Switzerland immediately. You know how Fritz reacts when the economy goes sour.

Yet another victory in the "American war against the Euro". Next target: France

Investors seek places other than france for their investments.

Constipated french leader says S&P decision doesn’t change anything

French actress Catherine Deneuve, 68 and formerly married, prefers the title "mademoiselle."

It's official: Europe is fucked. Since you Yurps set such store by history and tradition, and since everything else you've tried to stop the crisis has failed, the next EU summit will probably declare that it's the Jews' fault and start a pogram.

The experts agree: France is the most retarded country in Europe.

When Disneyland Paris opened in 1992, Frog intellectuals called it a “cultural Chernobyl.” Now frogs plan a new leisure park just 70km (45 miles) from Disneyland, to re-enact Napoleon's life and times.

Happy and Chubby head for france. Two Chinese pandas have left their breeding centre in southwestern China destined for a 10-year stay in france, in a loan sealed after years of top-level negotiations.

A French aircraft practicing aerial surrender techniques collided with a Saudi F-15 today.