The Eiffel Tower Vertical Race - Polish elite runner Piotr Lobodzinski has claimed victory by climbing the 1,665 stairs in under 8 minutes. Lobodzinki finished the competition almost a full minute ahead of the runner in second place, Austrian Jakob Mayer. The Eiffel Tower Vertical race is a unique running event with as many as 130 competitors, comprising of 40 elite athletes, 80 amateurs and 10 wildcards, all try to scale the 276-metre structure's stairs as fast as possible. According to its website around 7 million people visit the Eiffel Tower each year. The monument is considered a symbol of both France and its capital, Paris. It was designed and built by engineer Gustave Eiffel for the Universal Exhibition of 1889.
The CGT union is calling for a nationwide strike tomorrow, Thursday, June 5th, to protest against pension reforms and ask for higher wages and job pro...
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Electricity cuts are expected this Thursday, 5th of June due to maintenance work by Enedis in Puget-Théniers, near Nice. The outages may occur between...
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Environmental activists from Greenpeace have stolen a wax figure of French President Emmanuel Macron from a museum in Paris. The move comes in in prot...
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Expect a sunny and humid day. Highs of 25°C in Monaco, Nice, Antibes and Cannes, 23°C in Saint-Tropez and 27°C in Toulon. Light to moderate easterly w...
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The first week of June will bring mixed weather in the Alpes-Maritimes. Monday starts cloudy with some showers inland and light winds across the regio...
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