https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from France in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed An Italian man has reportedly turned into a French man after suffering from brain damage. https://www.thelocal.fr/20160607/italian-man-turns-french-after-brain-injury Tue, 07 Jun 2016 19:05:43 +0200 italian-man-turns-french-after-brain-injury A long battle to control French holiday firm Club Med took another turn on Tuesday after the French stock market authority announced Italian businessman Andrea Bonomi had made an improved offer. https://www.thelocal.fr/20141112/italian-trumps-chinese-bid-for-club-med Wed, 12 Nov 2014 09:43:00 +0100 italian-trumps-chinese-bid-for-club-med Splashed out on a bottle of fine Burgundy wine recently? Well you might want to check the label very carefully after it emerged this week a Europe-wide probe has broken up a wine counterfeiting operation, which sold €2 million worth of the €8,000 a bottle Burgundy red Romanée-Conti. https://www.thelocal.fr/20131022/fine-french-wine-fraudsters-busted Tue, 22 Oct 2013 12:24:00 +0200 fine-french-wine-fraudsters-busted A spoof French news website had the last laugh this week after a story that claimed most French men thought the clitoris was a Toyota model, tricked members of the Italian media into mocking the naivité of their Latin rivals in France. https://www.thelocal.fr/20130927/french-clitoris-poll-gorafi-the-onion-italians-fake-news Fri, 27 Sep 2013 15:14:00 +0200 french-clitoris-poll-gorafi-the-onion-italians-fake-news A court near the glamorous French Riviera city of Cannes this week handed a jail term to a daring and sophisticated poker cheat, who used infra-red contact lenses to count cards marked with invisible ink in a scam described as "the first of its kind in Europe." https://www.thelocal.fr/20130926/riviera-poker-cheat-caught-with-infra-red-contacts Thu, 26 Sep 2013 12:56:00 +0200 riviera-poker-cheat-caught-with-infra-red-contacts