A major NATO country says Ukraine should be allowed to use Western weapons on targets inside Russia, on one condition

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French President Emmanuel Macron showing a map during a press conference in Meseberg, Berlin, on May 28, 2024.

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Why giant oak barrels are key to making some of the world's most expensive wine

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Luxury winemakers producing some of the most expensive wine in the world will pay up to $50,000 for a single barrel to age their wine. But not just any barrel — a foudre. A foudre is a massive wooden vat that impacts and preserves the overall taste of the wine.

A few NATO countries are lobbying the rest to be bolder when it comes to sending their own soldiers to Ukraine

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Estonia's Prime Minister Kaja Kallas shakes hands with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy
Estonia's Prime Minister Kaja Kallas shakes hands with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy during their meeting, in Estonia in January 2024.

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Meet L'Oréal heiress Françoise Bettencourt Meyers, the world's richest woman and the first woman to ever hit a $100 billion fortune

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Françoise Bettencourt Meyers is the granddaughter of L'Oréal founder Eugène Schueller.

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France is so scared of strikes messing up the Olympics that it is letting air traffic controllers show up 3 hours late to work, and leave 3 hours early

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An air traffic control tower.

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Kids should be banned from smartphones until 13 and social media until 18, a major French study says

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A schoolboy looking at an iPhone with apps including TikTok, Facebook, and X, on February 25, 2024.

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The world's richest person just put 2 more of his kids on the board of his $430 billion company

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Four of Bernard Arnault's five children now sit on LVMH's board.

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They celebrated their 25th anniversary with a trip to Paris and ended up buying a stone house in the countryside for $100,000. Now, they're dreaming of retiring there.

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A Gen X couple posing in front of their stone cottage in the French countryside.
Michael and April Meyer posing in front of their stone cottage in the French countryside.

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Harvard has a new problem: disposing of a human skin book binding

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Why this obsolete mechanism makes watches more expensive

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A tourbillon (French for "whirlwind") is a centuries-old mechanism built inside some of the world's most expensive watches. It was originally designed to improve the accuracy of pocket watches by rotating the escapement and balance wheel to help counter the effects of gravity.

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