Paparazzi throng for Sarkozy trip
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Police try to keep paparazzi at bay in Egypt as the French president holidays with new girlfriend, singer Carla Bruni.
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French President Nicolas Sarkozy flew in to the Egyptian city of Luxor on Tuesday aboard a private jet accompanied by his new love, ex-supermodel Carla Bruni, to spend Christmas on the banks of the Nile.
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A paparazzo was arrested Thursday for investigation of trespassing while trying to photograph Angelina Jolie&#039;s adopted son, said a publicist for her partner, Brad Pitt.
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When the French cyclist Richard Virenque announced he would be giving a press conference today at the Olympia, a legendary concert hall in Paris, many expected show girls.
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(InfoWorld) - The stars of the French blogging firmament attending a social media conference on the edge of Paris were outshone on Tuesday by Israeli Deputy Prime Minister Shimon Peres, who stopped by for a surprise visit. A last-minute addition to the program, Peres spoke in English for 45 minutes, touching on themes including economic development, philanthropy, transparency, and democracy, but hardly spoke about IT. Conference host and blogger LoÃ¯c Le Meur said that Peres invited himself to the event. The Israeli politician was apparently already in Paris, and had encountered Le Meur before, at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Le Meur said. French Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy is also expected to pay a visit to the conference, Le Web 3, on Tuesday afternoon. On Monday morning, Le Meur said everyone at the event had invited themselves. Le Web 3 was promoted purely by word of mouth, he said, and he had not sent invitations to any of the 1,000 people who signed up for the conference, 55 percent of them from outside France. However, Le Meur changed tack on Monday afternoon, as he wrote later in his blog. Profiting from the prestige that Peres' visit brought to the conference, Le Meur invited three presidential candidates to attend: Sarkozy, of the ruling right-wing Union for a Popular Movement (UMP); SÃ©golÃ¨ne Royal of the Socialist Party, and FranÃ§ois Bayrou of the centrist Union for French Democracy (UDF). That Sarkozy was the first to reply and accept Le Meur's invitation is little surprise. Le Meur interviewed Sarkozy in a video for his blog last year, and then announced his intention to vote for Sarkozy in a Sept. 10 blog entry. Both blog postings were widely reported in the mainstream press at the time. It was Bayrou that turned up at the event first though, drawn as he put it by the potential audience of 60 million readers. The real reach of French blogs is harder to determine. Studies have reported that the country may have as many as 20 million bloggers. However, there are only 10 million Internet subscribers in France, according to government statistics. Only 1.2 million, or around 2 percent of the 62.5 million blogs tracked by search engine Technorati Inc. are French, the company's chief executive officer David Sifry said at the conference. That figure may be under-reported, Sifry said, as some of the major French blog hosters do not automatically transmit notice of updates to Technorati. Sifry spoke of the positive feedback mechanisms inherent in the blogging community: Technorati statistics show that the more often bloggers write, the more their blogs are linked to, and so the higher their profile becomes, encouraging them to write more. The company indexes blogs by their content and the tags, or keywords, that their authors attribute to them. On Tuesday morning, "leweb3" was the second most-popular search term on the site.
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French President Nicolas Sarkozy and his new wife win damages over a photo used in a Ryanair advert.
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The sight of the new French president, Nicolas Sarkozy, jogging -- often wearing his favorite NYPD T-shirt -- has fired up a tempest in a Reebok in France and Britain this summer. Sarkozy's running is an un-French, right-wing conspiracy, suggests Paris' left-wing newspaper LibÃÂ©ration. In response,...
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French President Nicolas Sarkozy and his model-turned-singer girlfriend, Carla Bruni, arrived holding hands in Luxor Tuesday, kicking off a private visit to Egypt.
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French President Nicolas Sarkozy's new love interest is supermodel-turned-singer Carla Bruni, reports said Monday after the two were photographed together at Disneyland Paris.
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Paparazzi camera lenses are poised, television satellite trucks are in place and helicopter pilots are on standby: Paris Hilton was hours away from freedom here Monday.
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Cut-price ticket ad alludes to Bruni nuptials The ElysÃ©e palace is apparently none too pleased with Ryanair, after the airline yesterday ran an ad in the French press featuring a lovely snap of Sarko and squeeze Carla Bruni.â¦
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Nicolas Sarkozy, one of France&#39;s most ambitious and visible politicians - and an in-house rival of President Jacques Chirac - moved to the helm of the president&#39;s party yesterday, a perfect podium for him to bid for the
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French President Nicolas Sarkozy and his new girlfriend Carla Bruni flew out of Egypt's Luxor on Wednesday aboard a tycoon friend's private jet headed for the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh.
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French President Nicolas Sarkozy made big promises during his recent election campaign, and a guy named Mustapha Smail plans to tell the world whether he keeps them.
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French President Nicolas Sarkozy visited one of the world's greatest monuments to love Saturday, pacing the elegant white marble hallways of the 17th-century Taj Mahal with a group of top advisers.
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Leonardo DiCaprio arrived in Israel with supermodel Bar Refaeli this weekend, creating a paparazzi storm.
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Tom Cruise holds a meeting with the French Finance Minister Nicolas Sarkozy. Plus news in brief on Avril Lavigne and Natasha Bedingfield.