First 'hoverboard' unveiled in Paris

Thu, 13 Oct 2011 14:07:36 +0200

It may not be quite as slick as the hoverboard from the Back to the Future movies in the 1980s, but visitors to the Paris science fair have been floating at a height of 2 centimetres on the first levitating skateboard.

'Bad maths' behind French minister's faulty immigrant claims

Wed, 29 Jun 2011 12:19:28 +0200

The Interior Minister, Claude Guéant, has been corrected on an assertion he made that 66 percent of the children of immigrant families leave school without qualifications.

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First 'hoverboard' unveiled in Paris

'Bad maths' behind French minister's faulty immigrant claims