Eiffel Tower
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| Address | Champ de Mars, 5 Avenue Anatole France, 75007 Paris, France |
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| Height | 30000 (cm) |
| Construction started | January 28, 1887 |
| Hours | Closed ⋅ Opens 9:30AM |
| Architects | Stephen Sauvestre |
| Maurice Koechlin | |
| Émile Nouguier | |
| Did you know | It held that title until 1930, when the Chrysler Building was built in New York City. |
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| ID | 580130 |
About Eiffel Tower
The Eiffel Tower is a wrought-iron lattice tower on the Champ de Mars in Paris, France. It is named after the engineer Gustave Eiffel, whose company designed and built the tower.
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Paris attack: Mother of suspect had 'reported concerns', prosecutor says
...By George WrightBBC NewsThe mother of a man suspected of stabbing a German tourist to death near the Eiffel Tower in Paris reported concerns about her son weeks before the attack, a prosecutor has said...
Huda Kattan: Beauty industry is sexist, says make-up icon
... As part of the celebrations for the 10th anniversary of her cosmetics brand, Huda Beauty, she has taken over a Paris building not far from the Eiffel Tower, and turned almost everything inside hot pink...
King Charles impresses Paris while the rest of France shrugs
...By Hugh SchofieldBBC News, ParísThe last time a King paid a state visit to Paris, there were 35,000 French soldiers lined up along his route to the Quai d Orsay and a massive Union Jack flag was unfurled from the top of the Eiffel Tower...
Is China's economy a 'ticking time bomb'?
... " They d travel, go to Paris, buy the Eiffel Tower...
US tourists stay in Eiffel Tower overnight while drunk - prosecutors
...By George WrightBBC NewsTwo American tourists have been found sleeping inside the Eiffel Tower after getting stuck while drunk, according to prosecutors...
Paris to bring back swimming in Seine after 100 years
... 7 mile) stretch to the Eiffel Tower...
Titan investigation: How will they find out what happened?
... If it was, then the submersible would have been subjected to incredibly high pressures, equivalent to the weight of the Eiffel Tower, says Professor Blair Thornton from the University of Southampton...
Egypt zoo overhaul plan raises animal welfare fears
... It had exotic plants and rare animals as well as prized architectural features, such as a mini suspension bridge by Gustave Eiffel, designed a decade before the construction of his famous Eiffel Tower...
News Daily: May backstop speech and Paris fire
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Brexit: I can get broad support for deal, says MayTheresa May 's in Northern Ireland today, where she will tell people that she can reach a Brexit deal with the EU that with the Irish Republic. In a speech, the Prime Minister will insist she can renegotiate with other European leaders and create a solution that "commands broad support" - and get it through Parliament.
But EU leaders say the so-called "backstop" - an insurance policy designed to avoid a hard border "under all circumstances" - is not up for discussion. However, DUP leader Arlene Foster has called the backstop "toxic".
On Monday, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said the EU would listen to ideas aimed at solving the Irish border "riddle", but the UK had to put them forward first. With Brexit due to happen on 29 March, a working group of Leave and Remain MPs will meet for a second day today to look for suggestions.
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Paris fire kills sevenA fire in a building In Paris has emergency services say. It started on Monday night in The City 's 16th arrondissement, not far from the Eiffel Tower . It's not known what caused The Fire , which spread across The Top two floors of The Building . "The Toll could still increase," a fire service spokesman said.
Xanax misuse linked to More Than 200 deathsMisuse of the drug Xanax - created to ease anxiety - has been since 2015, figures show. The BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme found 126 of these fatalities occurred in Scotland between 2015 and 2017. And counterfeit Xanax "Bars " - elongated tablets - with a street value of More Than £1m have been seized at UK ports and airports since 2016. Border Force said it was "taking a smarter approach to restricting the supply of drugs".
Do children in two-parent families do better?By Branwen Jeffreys, education editor
Family life is more richly varied than ever before. A growing proportion of parents in the UK choose To Live together, rather than Getting Married . And during The Past 20 years about one in five children has been Growing Up in a lone-parent family. This reflects big social shifts in attitudes and opportunities, some of which started in the 1960s, when women began to gain more control over when to have children.
Two large studies in the UK and the US have been following children Growing Up since about the year 2000. They are beginning to provide some evidence suggesting there is a measurable difference in how well children fare on average in single-parent families.
What the papers sayThe emergence of a in which Business Secretary Greg Clark told Nissan's former boss the carmaker would not be "adversely affected" by Brexit creates several headlines. The Financial Times says this assurance means there's more pressure on Theresa May to avoid a no-deal departure from the EU. The Guardian comments that Downing Street's previous statement that there was no "special deal" for the Japanese firm was "worthless". Elsewhere, the i describes German Chancellor Angela Merkel 's comments on the Irish backstop as an "Olive Branch " to the UK. And the Daily Mirror reports that 600 people A Day are quitting work to look after loved ones.
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