Moulin Rouge cancan dancers celebrate French cabaret's 130th birthday

France's summer heatwaves claimed 1,500 lives: minister Two heatwaves that hit France this summer claimed more than 1,500 more lives, Health Minister Agnes Buzyn said on Sunday.

Thief saws off Marilyn Monroe statue in Hollywood A statue of Marilyn Monroe that sat atop an artwork in Hollywood that celebrates women in film has gone missing in what authorities are calling the "Marilyn caper of 2019".

American picked to design vast car-free garden at Eiffel Tower

The city of Paris has chosen an American landscape architect to re-design a huge area surrounding the Eiffel Tower, a project that will banish almost all vehicle traffic near the immensely popular monument.

Eiffel Tower climber grabbed after sparking evacuation  A climber who sparked an evacuation of the Eiffel Tower on Monday was grabbed after clinging to the famous Paris landmark for more than six hours, officials said.

'Paris is disfigured': Tears and shock as Notre-Dame burns

Crowds of stunned Parisians and tourists -- some crying, others offering prayers -- watched in horror in central Paris on Monday night as firefighters struggled for hours to extinguish the flames engulfing the Notre-Dame Cathedral.

Gustave Eiffel's cannon to go under the hammer

A miniature cannon which sat on Gustave Eiffel's desk in the Paris tower that bears his name is to go under the hammer, auction house Christie's said Tuesday.

Paris shops, monuments to close as fears of protest violence mount

The Eiffel Tower, the Louvre museum and scores of shops on the Champs-Elysees are set to close as authorities warned on Thursday of fresh violence this weekend during protests which have ballooned into the biggest crisis of Emmanuel Macron's presidency.

Stairs from Eiffel Tower sell for 169,000 euros

A section of stairs from the Eiffel Tower in Paris sold for almost 170,000 euros on Thursday, auctioneers announced, around three times the pre-sale estimate.

Siemens’ mega-project in Egypt completed in record time, benefits more people

“I am very proud to be a Vietnamese engineer working on Siemens’ biggest project ever,” said Nguyễn Chí Hiếu, one of three Vietnamese commissioning engineers trained to work at Beni Suef power plant in Egypt.