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Paris's Notre Dame Cathedral gets a new golden rooster, part of its renaissance from the ashes of the 2019 fire that severely damaged it, and ahead of its reopening next year. The artefact was blessed by the archbishop of Paris Laurent Ulrich before being lifted into place on the cathedral spire 96 metres (104 yards) high, in blue skies and winter sunshine. IMAGES
An ornate cross is lifted by crane and installed on the new spire of Paris' emblematic Notre-Dame cathedral. Workers have one year, starting on Friday, to finish restoring the gothic monument in time for its reopening following a monstrous fire in 2019. IMAGES
French Prime Minister Jean Castex and Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin arrive at the police station in Rambouillet, a wealthy commuter town 60 kilometres (40 miles) from Paris, where a police officer was stabbed to death in the building's airlock. (COMPLETES VID98L8EL_EN) IMAGES
A woman administrator was stabbed to death by a Tunisian man at a police station southwest of Paris on Friday, the local prosecutor's office and a police source told AFP. The attacker, a Tunisian, was fatally wounded when officers opened fire on him at the station in Rambouillet, a wealthy commuter town 60 kilometres (40 miles) from Paris, a police source told AFP on condition of anonymity. IMAGES
Images of the exterior of the Notre-Dame de Paris cathedral, some of which is under construction two years to the day after the fire that ravaged the building. French President Emmanuel Macron is due to visit the site later today. IMAGES
Paris, Sep 18 (EFE), (Camera: María D. Valderrama).- Notre Dame'S sculptures of Saint Jude, Saint Simon and Saint Bartholomew will be on display, along with another ten statues, at the City of Architecture and Heritage in Paris. FOOTAGE OF THE EXHIBITION AT THE CITY OF ARCHITECTURE AND HERITAGE IN PARIS.