Piles of rubbish tarnish Paris lustre as pension strike continues

Uncollected rubbish near the Arc de Triomphe in Paris (Thomas Padilla/AP)

The City of Light is losing its lustre with tons of rubbish piling up on Paris pavements as sanitation workers went on strike for a ninth day.

The creeping squalor is the most visible sign of widespread anger over a Bill to raise the French retirement age by two years.