FORGOTTEN HISTORY: 30 | History Defined

In 2024, Tornyol Systems showed how a 1.4-ounce drone could detect and hunt mosquitoes using ultrasonic sensors. Two years later, the Paris startup recorded its first autonomous kill, but the victim was 1 moth, not a mosquito

A Paris startup just recorded its first autonomous insect kill using a 1.4-ounce drone. Tornyol Systems built the quadcopter with ultrasonic sensors that map pest wingbeats in total darkness. It neutralizes targets mid-air using high-speed propellers. While engineered to eradicate disease-carrying mosquitoes, its historic first interception was actually a moth.…

The Economic Times · Aug 20

US airline adds first-ever nonstop flight between West Coast and Athens - and a Paris route

The new flights carry symbolic flight numbers tied to their destinations

The Independent UK · Aug 20

PSG’s Ligue 1 home opener moved to Rennes after pitch damaged by heat

Paris Saint-Germain will face Rennes in Brittany because the Parc des Princes playing surface is a risk to ‘the safety and wellbeing of the players’

The Guardian - UK · Aug 20

Lab-grown human brain cells ‘recorded passage of time’

PARIS - Peppercorn-sized clumps of human brain cells grown in a laboratory for a record seven years aged similarly to those inside our heads, suggesting they “recorded the passage of time”, scientists said on Wednesday.

Bangkok Post · Aug 19

France’s historically hot summer brings 7,300 excess deaths

PARIS - France has seen more than 7,300 excess deaths during heatwaves so far this year, health authorities said on Wednesday, as the country has also endured a record number of hot days since mid-June, according to an AFP analysis.

Bangkok Post · Aug 19

Ukraine war was Putin's 'fatal mistake' says Russian politician exiled in Paris

Russian politician and prominent Kremlin critic Boris Nadezhdin was forced to flee Russia when he found himself barred from running for election and facing imprisonment. Two weeks after arriving in Paris, he spoke to RFI about the circumstances of his exile.

Radio France Internationale · Aug 19

Reporters Without Borders calls for 'immediate release' of two French filmmakers held in Togo

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has called for the "immediate release" of two French filmmakers and their Togolese fixer in a statement issued late Wednesday. Detained since July 27, all three have now been remanded into custody to await trial, the group said.

France 24 · Aug 19

22 Years Later, A Misunderstood Epic Just Got A Huge Upgrade

More than two decades later, it's time to revisit 'Troy.'

Inverse · Aug 18

France to expel two Iranian diplomats: foreign minister

PARIS (FRANCE) - Paris will expel two Iranian diplomats posted in France in retaliation for Iran banning two French diplomats in the embassy in Tehran, the French foreign minister said on Tuesday.

Bangkok Post · Aug 18

France to expel two Iranian diplomats as arrests row heightens

Paris is to expel two Iranian diplomats serving in France following the banning by Iran of two French diplomats posted to the embassy in Tehran, French Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot said Tuesday. He said Iran's treatment of the French diplomats briefly arrested in Tehran last month over accusations of "interference"…

France 24 · Aug 18