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Australia recently announced her plans to make a gigantic purchase of French submarines. It goes without saying that I'm keen to ...

When I was a child in Grafton (Australia), adults often mentioned the city of Timbuktu (Africa) as if it were a particularly remote place. T...

An Ifop survey carried out in France for the Figaro newspaper reveals increasingly negative attitudes towards Islam. We can indeed spea...

Click here to learn about a strange machine that might be referred to as the Brittany Bike, because it was invented long ago by a trio of ...

An Australian climate scientist has just made a sobering statement: “ We never thought the Great Barrier Reef was going to die completely by...

Here's the entry to the headquarters of the National Security Agency in Fort Meade (Maryland). For years, the agency has been listening...

Click here for a Wikipedia article on the entity that is often known as the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL). Here in Franc...

Ladies have the right (like men, for that matter) to choose the kind of hot tube around which they would like to spread their thighs. And we...

France's most-hated man, the 26-year-old terrorist Salah Abdeslam , is back on French soil, no doubt permanently. He was captured on 18 ...

Ever since the Lindt Café affair in Sydney, I've been shocked by the non-professional level of the men in charge. Recall that the 38-yea...

" La France est reconnaissante de la confiance que lui témoigne l’Australie et fière de l’excellence technologique dont ses entrepr...

An Australian family, on a fishing trip in the Northern Territory, set up their camp about 15 metres from a creek in the Daly region, a coup...

Tineke took these lovely photos of my mate a few days ago. Click to enlarge Although he has been around for quite some time, ...

The muddy bed of the Condamine River in Queensland is a source of methane gas, and it's easy to light up. Many observers believe tha...

Click here to access a shocking piece of bad journalism. Queensland's Courier Mail simply refuses to face scientific facts concerning ...

In my blog post of January 21, 2008 entitled Expensive, aesthetic and nasty [click here ], I made an out-of-the-way suggestion: If Australi...

Bubble nebula viewed by Hubble Click here

Petit Prince de Saint-Exupéry Ce dessin au style enfantin est l'œuvre de la dessinatrice Fauna93 sur le site DeviantArt . c...

Jean-Yves Le Drian , French minister of defence, has just made a reassuring radio statement on the possible elimination of Daesh in ...

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