In June 2023, the Paris deputy mayor for public health announced that a committee was being established to consider the prospect of ‘cohabitation’ with the city’s rats. This marked a ...

As Paris gears up for the upcoming Olympics, the city is working hard to manage its long-standing rat problem. With an influx of visitors expected, officials are determined to ensure the city's ...

On the other hand, this story, reported by Gavin Mortimer in The Spectator, strikes me as truly demented (or as a rationalization of failure): There are said to be 6 million rats in Paris.

On Monday, the Paris authority said 5,600 tonnes of waste had yet to be collected. One commentator on Europe1 radio described the situation as an all-you-can-eat buffet for the six million rats of ...

It could be an embarrassment as the Olympics spotlight falls on Paris. “All of the Olympic sites and celebration areas were analysed [for rats] before the Games,” said deputy mayor Anne-Claire ...

Some of us get annual inoculations. And there is no shortage of rats in Paris, including along the quays." It is true that rats are a perennial problem in the French capital, and the sight of a ...

PARIS: While the Paris Olympics is set to be ... hit animated film “Ratatouille”, the French capital’s abundant rat population is no joke for the city’s residents – and could be an ...

Paris has a deeper and stranger connection to ... the diseases, the monstrous rats rumored to dwell under Chinatown. His father worked in the égouts before him, his grandfather too.

A WARNING has been issued over tins of tuna sold in the UK containing a substance which poses a “colossal risk to public ...

Foodwatch and the Paris-based NGO Bloom reported that every one of the 148 ... In high doses, some forms of mercury have been ...

Ratatouille (2007): This delightful Disney animated comedy is set in one of Paris’s finest restaurants. In pursuit of his lifelong dream to become a French chef, a determined young rat spurs a ...

Heart Evangelista has landed on top of the latest celebrity list for this year’s Paris Fashion Week, but she stressed that it’s not a “rat race,” as numbers should not “determine” one ...