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Brigitte Bardot, global film star and tireless campaigner for animal rights, dies at the age of 91
She rose to international prominence in the 1950s and 1960s before leaving cinema at 39
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Cars and driving: What's new in France in 2026
Including the new pollution tax on used cars, motorway toll changes and speed camera changes
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More than a quarter of new car registrations in France are electric
EV sales hit new record in November 2025
Microscope can see cancer-cell workings
Scientists at the Institut Pasteur in Paris have just fitted the world’s most powerful microscope that gives an atom-scale view to find how cancer or HIV cells move and work.
Titan Krios is a €10million 3.8m cryo-electron microscope that was in part crowdfunded. Research on it elsewhere has led to three Nobel Prizes.
