Under its immaculate vault, soft light streams over a now silent pool. Once a temple to swimming, La Piscine de Roubaix has ...

Finding himself at a loose end on a rainy day in France, triathlete Jeremy arranged to view some properties in the quaint neighborhood he’d been staying in. Originally from Wales, the father-of-two ...

Sales of swimming pools are being banned in parts of France as drought conditions continue to grip the country. Pyrénées-Orientales, a department on the Mediterranean coast bordering Spain, will be ...

The Rouvet swimming pool reopened its doors in the 19th arrondissement in mid-September 2025, following major renovation work ...

The swimming pool is one among several dome-shaped swimming pools, named Tournesol, built in France during the 1970s and 1980s. Designed by architect Bernard Schoeller, the column-free dome ...

Using an artificial intelligence computer vision system developed by French IT firm Capgemini, the French tax office (often called "DGFiP" for short) has identified 20,356 residential swimming pools ...

They say the only two certainties in life are death and taxes. That seems especially true in France where tax authorities have begun deploying artificial intelligence to snuff out thousands of ...

Developed by Google and Capgemini, the AI software learned how to spot pools on aerial images of nine French departments during a trial run last year - Copyright AFP ...

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Most broken-down vehicles end up in a junkyard — not this retro French bus. It’s getting a second life as a quirky swimming pool. Artist Benedetto Bufalino, whose work often involves turning vehicles ...