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This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Nationwide strikes across France forced the Eiffel Tower to close as 195,000 protesters denounced spending cuts ...

PARIS (AP) — Protesters took to the streets of more than 200 towns and cities across France on Thursday to denounce spending cuts and demand higher taxes on the rich. In Paris, thousands of workers, ...

Nationwide strikes in France led to the closure of the Eiffel Tower on Oct. 2. Around 85,000 demonstrators took to the streets to protest government spending cuts. As one of the most iconic and ...

The structure known today as the Eiffel Tower was originally dubbed the Tour de 300 mètres, the 300-metre tower. The name was proposed by engineers Maurice Koechlin and Émile Nougier to Gustave Eiffel ...

The Eiffel Tower, one of the world's most popular sites, is famous for its sheer size and spectacular views of Paris. But do you know that this iron giant grows taller during the summer season? It's a ...

The comically curved Eiffel Tower that always looked bent like a boomerang in Soarin’ Around the World will be straightened out when Walt Disney Imagineering updates the hang gliding flight simulator ...

A bare-chested man was arrested Sunday afternoon after he was seen climbing the Eiffel Tower, prompting an evacuation of tourists hours before the Olympic closing ceremony took place. Witnesses on the ...

The Eiffel Tower, one of the most famous buildings in the world today, was once the tallest structure ever built too. At the time of its completion in 1889, its 984 feet (or 300 meters) far surpassed ...

The Eiffel Tower is one of the 10 most-visited monuments in the world. Rising 330 metres above the Parisian skyline, its maintenance costs are now reaching comparable summits. To cope with this burden ...

The Eiffel Tower reopened to visitors on Sunday after a six-day closure because of striking employees demanding better maintenance of the historic landmark, showing traces of rust, and salary hikes.