Current Events !French students lag far behind their counterparts elsewhere in the European Union in both maths and science, an international report on education released on Tuesday showed.French fourth-graders scored an average of 488 points in mathematics and 487 in science, below the international average of 500 and the European average of 527 in maths and 525 in science.
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Scores of people were killed Thursday night when a large truck plowed through a Bastille Day crowd in Nice, France, in what President Francois Hollande called a terror attack.The death toll grew through the night, with Hollande saying 77 people died. Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said 80 people were killed.The driver first shot a gun into the crowd before driving two kilometers along the Promenade des Anglais, the main street in Nice, mowing down people who had gathered to watch fireworks, regional President Christian Estrosi told CNN affiliate BFM-TV.
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