French athlete sets world record for rope climbing at Eiffel Tower 00:56. The descendants of the Eiffel Tower's designer say they will fight to stop the Olympic rings being left on the tower, as ...

PARIS — There are few sights more iconic than the Eiffel Tower and the Olympic rings.But not everyone agrees they belong together — least of all the family of the man who designed the landmark ...

The giant Olympic rings that were installed on the Eiffel Tower for the 2024 summer Games will become a permanent fixture on the monument, the mayor of Paris revealed on Saturday.

Last month, Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo told a French newspaper that she wanted the five interlinked 43-foot rings on the Eiffel Tower to stay where they are. Her words - I want the two to remain ...

Mayor Anne Hidalgo is pushing to keep the Olympic rings on the Eiffel Tower. She also wants to keep the hot air balloon that lifted the Olympic cauldron into the sky during the Games.

“While the rings were celebrated on the Eiffel Tower during the Games because the iconic monument was a central figure in the event, the rings were never part of its original design,” Myriam ...

The Eiffel Tower was originally designed as the centrepiece of the 1889 Paris Exhibition. Since then, it has become a tourist attraction that's drawn more than 330 million visitors, according to ...

As a heat wave scorches most of Europe, the Eiffel Tower announced it will be closing early on Tuesday as Paris is expected ...

The heat wave that has blanketed much of Europe is expected to linger over the continent this week, driving up temperatures ...

France’s court of auditors has provided the first official estimate of public spending tied to the 2024 Paris Olympics and ...

Passengers in the back of a taxi film themselves as they leave the Eiffel Tower, decorated with the Olympic rings ahead of ...

The Eiffel Tower closed early on Tuesday and will remain closed on Wednesday as a sweltering heat wave grips parts of Europe.