Eiffel Tower Opens Elevated Skating Rink
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Holiday on ice takes on new meaning when you're high above the rooftops of Paris doing figure eights inside the Eiffel Tower. During the 115 years of the Eiffel Tower's existence, it has added refreshment stands, trinket shops and fancy restaurants &#151; but nothing quite matches the skating rink in the sky that opened to the public Friday.
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MOSCOW - The French skyscraper climber who calls himself "Spiderman" scaled Europe's tallest skyscraper in the Russian capital yesterday before being detained by police. Alain Robert climbed to the top of the 799-foot Federation office building, Europe's tallest building, in less than a half-hour using a ladder.
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France is to celebrate its rich architectural traditions with the opening of a major new museum in the heart of Paris.
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A bridge officially designated the tallest in the world is to be inaugurated in southern France Tuesday -- a spectacular feat of engineering that will carry motorists at 270 metres (885 feet) above the valley ...
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President Jacques Chirac inaugurated the world's highest bridge Tuesday, a creation taller than the Eiffel Tower, longer then the Champs Elysees and designed to end a traffic bottleneck in southern France.
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The Eiffel Tower, Statue of  Liberty, castles, pyramids and dancing fountains define the Las  Vegas skyline. Come Friday, add 30-foot-high rabbit ears.
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Thundering fighter jets streamed the blue, white and red of the French tricolor as President Jacques Chirac on Tuesday dedicated the world&#39;s tallest bridge, a skyway
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Largest European Apple Shop to date opens inside the FNAC Digital store on the Boulevard Saint Germain in Paris.
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The imposing headquarters of France's leading conservative daily, Le Figaro, rises from the wide sidewalks of the Rue du Louvre here like some great, battered ocean liner.
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TAIPEI, Taiwan (CP) - A French urban climber who calls himself Spiderman climbed to the top of the world's tallest building on Saturday - Taipei 101.
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Thundering fighter jets streamed the blue, white and red of the French tricolor as President Jacques Chirac on Tuesday dedicated the world's tallest bridge, a skyway span dwarfing the Eiffel Tower by more than 50 feet.
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PARIS Deep beneath the Eiffel Tower, Fabrice Fevai is dodging fat water drops, skirting slick pools on the concrete floor and ducking giant wheels and pistons.
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A Chinese developer has brought the delights of Paris to a housing estate on the outskirts of Shanghai, including the world's second-largest replica of the Eiffel Tower.
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FRENCHMAN Alain Robert on Saturday defied bad weather to set a personal record by climbing the world&#39;s tallest building, Taipei 101, in four hours.
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Yohji Yamamoto paid tribute to elegance and the female form in his spring ready-to-wear show Monday that opened Paris fashion week on a high note.
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Alain Ducasse has already taken haute cuisine to great heights, in menus for the Concorde jet and for astronauts. But opening a restaurant in the Eiffel Tower comes with its own challenges.
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Images as France inaugurates the world's tallest road bridge which soars more than 300m high.