La Belle Vie: The long process of French driving tests
Getting a driver's licence is often seen as a simple rite of passage, but mine turned into a year-long saga - this weekโs La Belle Vie newsletter offers an insight into this essential process.
๐ซ๐ท ํ๋์ค ยท "SEEN" ยท ์ด 19๊ฑด
ํํฐ ๋ณด๊ธฐํ์ฌ ์ง์
50.0
0 = ๋ถ์ ์ฐ์ธ
50 = ์ค๋ฆฝ
100 = ๊ธ์ ์ฐ์ธ
์ต๊ทผ 7์ผ ๊ธฐ์ค 3,744๊ฑด์ ๋ถ์ํ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ, ๋ด์ค ์ฌ๋ฆฌ์ง์๋ 50.0(๊ท ํ)์ ๋๋ค. ๊ธ์ 0๊ฑด(0.0%)ยท์ค๋ฆฝ 3,742๊ฑด(99.9%)ยท๋ถ์ 2๊ฑด(0.1%)์ด๋ฉฐ, ์ค๋ฆฝ ๋น์ค์ด ๋๋ ทํ๊ฒ ๋์ต๋๋ค. ์ฑํฅ ์ง์๋ ์ข ํฉ 0.0(์ค๋ ๊ท ํ)์ ๋๋ค.
Getting a driver's licence is often seen as a simple rite of passage, but mine turned into a year-long saga - this weekโs La Belle Vie newsletter offers an insight into this essential process.
Outrage has erupted in France after it emerged the main suspect in the case of an 11-year-old girl missing since last week had been repeatedly accused of abusing children but no action was taken to protect others. Lyhanna, 11, went missing on Friday near the village of Fleurance in southwestern France, after she was last seen getting into a man's car.
The countdown is on for the 2026 FIFA World Cup, jointly hosted for the first time by the US, Canada and Mexico. But a viral training video has triggered doubt on whether the US stadiums are ready for the tournament, after Senegal's national team was seen practicing on a pitch that saw the ball barely bounce. Fans online said it would result in "player injuries" and the "worst World Cup ever," but there's key context missing about the stadium and pitch.
France's Health Minister Stรฉphanie Rist announced on Tuesday that the government would fast-track access to mental health appointments for young people. She promised that those identified by staff in the national education system as having mental health problems would be seen by a professional within 24 to 48 hours.
Ethiopia holds parliamentary and regional elections on Monday that analysts expect Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed's party to win by a large margin, despite significant unrest across much of the country.
Colombians are heading to the polls Sunday. With current president Gustavo Petro stepping down, the search for his successor is seen as a referendum on his leftist social policies and response to growing violence in the country. Left-wing candidate Ivan Cepeda, who says he will continue pursuing peace accords with armed groups, is leading in the polls. But he faces stark opposition from the more hawkish right. Trump-loving millionaire lawyer Abelardo de la Espriella and Paloma Valencia, who comes from one of Colombia's most important conservative dynasties, both favor harsher crackdowns on guerrilla groups. Details by Caroline Baum.
Ballots for the first round of Colombia's presidential election open Sunday, as candidates with radically diverging visions for the future will be pit against one another. The vote, seen as a referendum on outgoing President Gustavo Petroโs policies, comes 10 years after Colombia signed an historic peace pact with guerrillas of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC.
Shelling was audible and smoke rose from the surrounding area as the invading army's banner was seen above the medieval Beaufort Castle, which Israeli forces famously used as a base during their previous two-decade-long occupation.
The Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says Israeli forces have advanced further into Lebanon, crossing the Litani river, amid a nominal truce. The Litani is seen as one of the most important reference lines in the south of the country - it is the northern limit of a UN-monitored security zone. Details by Nicholas Rushworth.
The Russian drone exploded on the roof of a residential building in Galati, a city located near Ukraine. Bucharest said the incursion should not be seen as an 'attack on Romania.'
Western Europe faced another day of record-breaking temperatures Tuesday as a heatwave pushed the mercury well above normal levels for May. A so-called "heat dome" of warm air from northern Africa trapped under a high-pressure system over western Europe is behind the sort of heat not usually seen until high summer.
A massive fireball was seen rising into the air Thursday as heavy Israeli strikes pounded Lebanon's southern coastal city of Tyre. The strikes, which come as Muslims celebrate the holiday of Eid al-Adha, followed a warning by Israel that it had declared a new swathe of southern Lebanon a combat zone and told residents to evacuate.
Efforts to expand tennis in France have seen hard courts gradually replace clay in the land of Roland Garros, leaving the iconic slippery surface to a select few โ and, according to some, contributing to the home playersโ miserable run at the Paris Grand Slam tournament.
A critically endangered New Zealand parakeet known as kakariki karaka has seen its numbers surge thanks to a pair of super breeders now responsible for more than 10 percent of the total population. Parents Nacho and Trixie were paired up in 2024 at the Isaac Conservation and Wildlife Trust in Christchurch and have since produced 55 chicks, including 33 this year alone.
A report published Wednesday said that deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon fell last year to its lowest level since 2019, in what will be seen as good news for leftist President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva. Lula, who is seeking a fourth term in October elections, has made the fight against deforestation a central tenet of his administration.
Sustainable aviation fuels, which do not require any extraction of fossil carbon, are now being seen as an opportunity by airlines. However, SAFs remain extremely expensive, and the available supply is insufficient.
Hundreds of Turkish riot police stormed the Ankara headquarters of the country's main political opposition to remove the party's ousted leader, who was dismissed by a court order on Thursday. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has overseen a year-long legal crackdown on the CHP opposition party following the arrest of Istanbul's popular mayor Ekrem Imamoglu in 2025.
Companies offering 'airport concierge' services say they have seen a spike in bookings since the start of the EU's EES system of biometric passport checks - so is it worth paying extra for these?
The Pentagon said on Tuesday it was cutting the number of US Brigade Combat Teams stationed in Europe from four to three, returning troop levels to those seen in 2021 as Washington presses European allies to assume greater responsibility for regional defence. The move will temporarily delay the deployment of additional US forces to Poland.