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PARIS — France is pushing ahead with a landmark tax on tech giants like Google and Facebook — despite U.S. President Donald Trump’s threats of retaliatory tariffs on French wine. After Trump slammed the “foolishness” of the tax in a tweet Friday and promised…

Egan Bernal was poised to become the first Colombian to win the Tour de France when he retained the overall lead after Saturday's 20th stage, a 59-km ride from Albertville. The Team Ineos rider, 22, finished the stage won by 2014 champion Vicenzo Nibali of I…

Delta Aquariid meteor shower will light up the night sky Summer nights are shorter but a great time to check out meteor showers, and the Delta Aquariid shower peaks Sunday night. Though it's a fairly average meteor shower, you can still see up to 20 meteors …

Our selection of some of the most striking news photographs taken around the world this week. Image copyrightPhilippe Wojazer / ReutersImage caption Greta Thunberg (second from right) along with other Swedish and French environmental activists from the You…

Friday, July 26th 2019, 5:23 pm - The thigh bone belonged to a sauropod, the largest class of dinosaurs. Archaeologists in southwestern France have unearthed a massive dinosaur bone measuring some two metres in length -- longer than most human beings are tal…

An external investigator says prosecutors did not break any rules when they extradited Ottawa academic Hassan Diab to France in 2014. The report by Murray Segal, the former deputy attorney general of Ontario, was released on Friday by the Department of Justi…

The Scite project has a corpus of millions of scientific articles that it has analyzed with deep learning tools to determine whether any given paper has been supported or contradicted by subsequent publications; you can check Scite via the website, or install…

There was chaos at the Tour de France on Friday as organizers suddenly stopped stage 19 because of extreme weather, which appeared to include a flash hail storm, snow blocking the roads, and a landslide all just ahead of the riders. The Colombian rider Ega…

A new climate report, Volume II of the National Climate Assessment, says that the effects of global warming are intensifying and getting costlier. USA TODAY PARIS  Hot, hotter, hottest! Paris, London and places across Europe are sweltering under all-time h…

Hot, hotter, hottest! Paris, London and points across Europe are bracing for record temperatures Thursday as the second heat wave this summer bakes the continent. Interested in Weather? Add Weather as an interest to stay up to date on the latest Weather new…