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...Europe's main rail operators are already forming partnerships. SNCF, for example, runs a high-speed Paris-Brussels-Amsterdam-Cologne service called Thalys along with Belgian rail operator Société Nationale des Chemins de Fer Belge (SNCB) and Germany's Deutsche Bahn (DB). DB also uses the French company's track to operate its high-speed Intercity-Express (ICE) trains between eastern France and Paris. But, despite their cooperation on some routes, DB and SNCF are locking horns over Eurostar. The French have a majority stake in Eurostar, which also includes the Belgians and the U.K.'s London...
...launch Europe's first privately operated high-speed service in Italy in 2011, in competition with Italy's former rail monopoly Trenitalia. Headed by Fiat and Ferrari CEO Luca Cordero di Montezemolo, NTV plans to establish a broad network of high-speed Italian services that dovetail with French routes run by SNCF, which owns...
...Futurism," at London's Tate Modern from June 12 to Sept. 20, shows what happened when the Italians collided with French, Russian, British and American painters. After a visit to Paris in 1911, they borrowed the Cubists' fragmented forms and variable viewpoints, while the Cubists became more louche and vivid under Italian influence. (See 10 things to do in London...
...Victorian-era dining room, you can warm yourself by the fire (the lodge contains 14 working fireplaces) before retiring to one of seven expansive suites fashioned by Auckland interior designer Stephen Cashmore. If resting your head at the Otahuna blows the budget, try the handsome Clearview Lodge, www.clearviewlodge.com - a French-style château with working vineyard, easily accessible from the airport - or Hotel SO, www.hotelso.co.nz. The latter offers affordable minimalism in the heart of town, on the doorstep of shopping and nightlife...
...Despite their tight funds, Martell and his partners hope to buy or borrow as many of Marceau's belongings as possible to create a museum of his life and work. They may get a bit of help from one big spender: the French state. During Tuesday's bidding, an official from France's National Library reserved its right to 20 works of art depicting Marceau onstage. That means that at least some of the mime's legacy has been deemed worth preserving as part of France's national patrimony - a view to which Marceau himself would surely doff his famous...