Scaffolding still surrounded the new spire, captured by an AFP photographer, and officials did not wish to comment while they await the finishing touches. The authority overseeing the rebuilding ...

PARIS - The outline of the new spire on the Notre-Dame Cathedral was visible on the Paris skyline on Nov 28, as a key part of the reconstruction from a devastating fire approached completion.

Paris — the city of light — is now looking to add a little bit of height. The Paris city council voted Tuesday to consider erecting tall buildings on the rim of this historically low-rise capital.

The outline of the new spire on the Notre-Dame Cathedral was visible on the Paris skyline on Tuesday as a key part of the reconstruction from a devastating fire approached completion.

Bertrand Delanoë, the popular Socialist mayor, said that buildings were needed to ease the city's housing shortage ... an ugly tower that blights the central Paris skyline.