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Granted that Google and Facebook give news content legs. They take the story beyond the geographical limits of the newspapers reach. But if the disseminator makes nearly all the profits and shares mere peanuts with the producer of the content, how long will news production survive?

Why Google and Facebook should be paying news publishers worldwide

Governments of France, Spain and Australia have ordered the giant aggregators to pay publishers for content, but will...

20 April 2020 3:54 PM IST

South Korea reported eight new cases, raising its total to 10,661 with 234 deaths. (AFP Photo)

Business

Governments across globe under pressure to control covid19 economic...

Governments face pressure to reopen factories, shops, travel and public activities

19 April 2020 12:42 PM IST

$A protester lays a candle next to a banner reading \Embryo\ during a demonstration against abortion and euthanasia, called by the association \La Marche pour la vie\, in Versailles, southwest of Paris. (File Image: AFP)$ Opinion

AA Edit | France sets landmark on abortion

France sets trend with landmark constitutional inclusion of abortion rights, signaling support for women's autonomy over...

7 March 2024 12:00 AM IST

Surgery took began early in the evening of Aug. 14, one hour and 50 minutes after the 30-year-olds arms were severed in the accident at Chambery station (Photo: Pixabay)

Newsmakers

French surgeons reattach woman's arms after train accident

Four-hour procedure was conducted by a double team at the Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Grenoble Alpes hospital in...

26 Aug 2017 11:00 AM IST

Entertainment

Dance your way through exams

Recently one of my students came up to me and said that she would be taking a year’s break from dancing as she had...

14 March 2013 12:09 PM IST

India

Obama extends rarest of rare gesture for PM

In a rarest of the rare gesture, US President Barack Obama personally walked down to the White House portico to see off...

28 Sept 2013 1:31 PM IST

India

Chit fund victims to get back money

The wait is finally over. Over one lakh duped depositors of Saradha chit fund company are likely to get compensation...

27 Sept 2013 11:43 AM IST

Newsmakers

Revellers pay for Spain’s Tomatina

Some 20,000 revellers pelted each other with 130 tonnes (286 pounds) of squashed tomatoes Wednesday in a rain-drenched...

28 Aug 2013 11:28 PM IST

Life

Paris's urban rooftop hives hope to preserve honeybees

Audric De Campeau is an urban beekeeper, and his beehives sit atop monuments and office buildings and on rooftop...

4 Aug 2017 6:11 PM IST

$Heritage Curator of the Centre for Research and Restoration of Museums of France (C2RMF) Alexandre G©rard examines polychrome stone statues belonging to the Museum of Cluny, the \apostles of the Sainte Chapelle\ before their restoration in Paris. (Photo: AFP)$ Life

Scientists crack mystery of the luckless apostles of Paris

A team of French scientists are at last revealing their original colours and forms from 1248.

4 Aug 2017 2:12 PM IST

France had been seeking to win a third crown -- the last of which came when captain Amelie Mauresmo inspired them to a 4-1 triumph over the United States 13 years ago. (Photo: AP)

Sports

Fed Cup: Czechs edge past France

It was their third triumph in succession and 10th overall, with only the United States boasting more titles with 17.

14 Nov 2016 10:39 AM IST

Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg again rejected the idea that the social network affected the US presidential election. (Photo:AP)

Technology

Facebook fined $166,000 for breach of French privacy laws

The social networking company failed to comply with French data protection laws after a formal warning last year.

16 May 2017 8:15 PM IST