Paris turns toward the two-wheeler
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PARIS -- A city notorious for aggressive drivers was transformed into a giant bicycle-friendly zone beginning yesterday as part of an experiment being closely watched by US cities, including Atlanta and Austin, Texas.
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The heavy-horsepower SUV bandwagon has taken on global proportions, judging from the Paris Motor Show opening on the weekend, at which all major auto manufacturers are unveiling their new all-wheel-drive version of beefy urban luxury.
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Sport: Tour de France: Belgian sprinter closes in on green jersey with second win of this year's race.
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The City of Light wants to be the city that bikes.
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There they'll be, with their featherweight bikes and those cool helmets, a hundred of the world's top riders whizzing through the Back Bay while thousands of fans pack the sidewalks and convoys of help wagons and support vehicles follow the pack. They'll whiz down Charles Street. They'll whiz away down Storrow. Then they'll come back and do it again.
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Mountain biker Marie-Helene Premont of Chateau-Richer, Que. captured the silver on a tough and sun-baked course in the suburbs of Athens today, finishing behind winner Gunn-Rita Dahle of Norway.
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Trams returned to Paris on Saturday after a 69-year gap, with the inauguration of a new commuter service around part of the city's southern periphery.
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The 2005 Tour de France - from 2-24 July - will travel 3,600km from the tiny Atlantic island of Noirmoutier, through Germany and on to the finish in Paris.
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Le BrÃ©silien Helio Castroneves a remportÃ© la course dâIndyCar Series de Fort Worth, derniÃ¨re manche de la saison, dimanche. Son compatriote Tony Kanaan, 2e, Ã©tait dÃ©jÃ  assurÃ© du titre.
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A fictional $99 fare to Paris comes with some, ahem, unexpected restrictions.
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PARIS - The City of Light wants to soon become a city of bicycles. Paris City Hall announced it has selected French outdoor advertising firm JCDecaux SA to operate a new free bicycle service in the capital.
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The tension is building in Paris with kick-off in the World Cup final just a few minutes away.
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CANTERBURY, England -- Lance Armstrong knew a thing or two about bouncing back from a crash to win a Tour de France stage.
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It is the twin-engine A350, not the delayed and much-publicized A380 superjumbo, that Airbus hopes will grab headlines at the Paris air show.
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The City of Light wants to soon become a city of bicycles. Paris City Hall announced it has selected French outdoor advertising firm JCDecaux SA to operate a new free bicycle service in the capital.
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Apple has been showing off in Paris what we can expect from the company in the coming months.
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Join the Paris morning rush and it's easy to get the impression that newspapers here are doing just fine. Across the French capital, subway riders leaf through the headlines as they hurtle toward the city center.