Jacques Tati fans see smoke over 'missing pipe'

The agency overseeing advertising in the Paris Metro created a stir last week when it doctored a poster of cult film director Jacques Tati to remove his signature tobacco pipe.

The agency says it's respecting France's anti-smoking laws but Tati fans argue it amounts to no less than censorship.

Europe's cross-border deal hunters

Slovaks head to Hungary for deals during the financial crisis, while Lithuanians and Germans swarm into Poland for low prices.

Iraq's illiterate hit the books

First repression, then war, have kept some Iraqi women from learning how to read.

A new programme financed by the United States is changing that, based on the belief that education will empower poor women and keep them from joining radical groups.