Areva to sell transmission and development unit; French government to sell part of its stakeNEW YORK — Nuclear power giant Areva said Tuesday it would sell its transmission and development division in a bid to raise cash to shore up its balance sheet and fund future investments. La. police say burglar tried to rob church, but fell asleep in church’s guest apartmentPONCHATOULA, La. — Sleeping in church is bad during the sermon, but even worse when a burglar does it on the job. Police arrested an 18-year-old man after he was found sleeping in a building belonging to the French Corner Church. Former French ski champion Luc Alphand has spinal surgery after accident in motorcycle raceGRENOBLE, France — Former French ski champion Luc Alphand has undergone spinal surgery following a weekend accident in a motorcycle race. French official says sounds detected in Atlantic are not from Flight 447 black boxes
PARIS — A French official says sounds detected by search teams in the Atlantic depths are not those of Flight 447’s black boxes. The aide to France’s top transport official, Jean-Louis Borloo, says the “black boxes have not been detected.” The aide spoke on condition of anonymity because she was not authorized to be publicly named. Islamic court in Somalia sentences 4 men to each have hand, leg cut offMOGADISHU, Somalia — A court run by an extremist Islamic group sentenced four Somali men on Monday to each have a hand and a leg cut off for allegedly stealing mobile phones and guns. The ruling prompted an outcry from human rights activists. Air France says it will give $24,000 _ €17,500 _ advance to families of crash victimsPARIS — Air France said Friday it would give about euro17,500 ($24,000) as an advance to the families of the victims of the crash of Air France Flight 447 from Rio de Janeiro to Paris. More bodies from Air France crash recoveredRIO DE JANEIRO - Seven more bodies were recovered Tuesday from the sea from the Air France plane crash earlier this month, bringing the total of bodies recovered up to 50, a Navy spokesman said. Report: NKorean leader’s son, heir apparent secretly visits China, warned for nuclear programTOKYO — The youngest son — and reportedly heir apparent — of North Korea’s ailing leader Kim Jong Il secretly visited China last week and was urged by President Hu Jintao to have the North halt additional nuclear tests, a top Japanese newspaper said Tuesday. Speed monitors switched on all Air France long-haul jets; US Navy locator begins searchPARIS — Air France has finished replacing air speed monitors on all its long-haul Airbus aircraft even though the cause of the Flight 447 disaster remains a mystery, a pilots’ union official said Monday. French hospital says man who received double hand and partial face transplant diesPARIS — A burn victim who received a simultaneous partial face and double hand transplant in a French hospital has died. EADS CEO: Year-end A400M first flight could coincide with new contractPARIS — EADS CEO Louis Gallois said he hopes the fate of Europe’s troubled A400M military transport plane will be resolved by the end of 2009, ending months of agonizing and costly uncertainty. G-8 finance officials expected to ask IMF to study ways to roll back stimulus packagesLECCE, Italy — Financial officials from the Group of Eight industrialized nations are expected to agree Saturday to ask the International Monetary Fund to investigate ways to unwind hefty stimulus packages amid early signs of a global economic recovery. Gunman kills guard, is shot himself in gunfire at US Holocaust Museum in WashingtonWASHINGTON — An 88-year-old gunman with a violent and virulently anti-Semitic past opened fire with a rifle inside the crowded U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum on Wednesday, fatally wounding a security guard before being shot himself by other officers, authorities said. Search crews recover 24 bodies from Air France crash and large tail section section from planeRECIFE, Brazil — Search crews have recovered 24 bodies of passengers on the Air France flight that crashed in the Atlantic Ocean eight days ago with 228 people on board, Brazil’s military said Monday. They also recovered a large tail section from the jetliner, helping narrow the hunt for “black boxes” that could reveal the disaster’s cause. Air France union: Pilots should refuse to fly Airbus A330 jets unless monitors replacedPARIS — An Air France union urged pilots Monday to refuse to fly Airbus A330s and A340s unless their external speed and altitude monitors have been replaced. Brazil’s military says 17 bodies have been recovered in Atlantic from Air France crashRECIFE, Brazil — Search boats scouring the Atlantic Ocean on Sunday recovered 15 more bodies of passengers who were aboard a doomed Air France flight that crashed a week ago, Brazilian military authorities said. Brazilian Navy says it has recovered 3 more bodies from ocean near Air France crash siteRECIFE, Brazil — Three more bodies were found Sunday bobbing in the ocean near the spot where an Air France jet is believed to have crashed a week ago, bringing the total number of bodies plucked from the water to five, Brazil’s military said. Obama suggests new, stronger response to North Korean nuclear, missile testingCAEN, France — President Barack Obama on Saturday suggested a new, stronger response to North Korean nuclear and missile testing, saying that he prefers continued diplomacy unless the communist country refuses to accept international calls to end to its nuclear program. Obama promises ‘very hard look’ at new steps against North Korea over nuclear, missile effortsCAEN, France — President Barack Obama on Saturday expressed impatience with North Korea’s refusal to restart nuclear disarmament talks and said his administration was taking “a very hard look” at possible tougher approaches. Mystery deepens over whereabouts of Air France planeSAO PAULO/PARIS - The mystery surrounding the fate of the Air France flight that crashed into the Atlantic earlier this week deepened after Brazilian officials admitted that no trace of the plane or its 228 occupants had been recovered. At Nazi camp, Obama sees the capacity for evil and a need to confront it in the modern worldWEIMAR, Germany — President Barack Obama absorbed the stark horrors memorialized at the Buchenwald concentration camp Friday and said the lesson for the modern world is vigilance against evil, against subjugation of the weak and against the “cruelty in ourselves.” Obama arrives in France for D-Day commemorations (Lead)PARIS - US President Barack Obama arrived in Paris late Friday for a visit of at least one day to take part in ceremonies commemorating the 65th anniversary of D-Day. French point to no evidence from downed Airbus, urges prudence over suspected debrisPARIS — French and Brazilian search teams have found no debris confirmed to have come from the Airbus A330 that vanished over the Atlantic, officials said Friday. Ticket mishaps, overbookings kept 4 people off doomed Air France Flight 447PARIS — A reservation mix-up, an overbooking and a Brazilian cabbie’s passion for soccer are all that saved some would-be passengers on Air France flight 447 from the fate of 228 others who lost their lives in the mid-Atlantic. Coalition war has created friction among friends, whether at Normandy or today in AfghanistanWASHINGTON — The battlefields of Normandy, launch point for the Allies’ D-Day push to liberate France and crush Nazi Germany, lie far from the front lines of Afghanistan, focal point of today’s war-by-coalition. Captain of Air France jet that crashed off Brazil grew up to be a pilot like his dadPARIS — Marc Dubois grew up to be a pilot, just like his dad. North Korean heir has superb physical gifts, is a big drinker and never admits defeatBEIJING - Kim Jong-un, the youngest son and designated heir of North Korean Leader Kim Jong-il, it seems, is a splitting image of his father. Brazilian military pilots searching for missing Air France jet spot debris in Atlantic OceanFERNANDO DE NORONHA, Brazil — Brazilian military pilots hunting Tuesday for a missing Air France jet spotted an airplane seat, an orange buoy and signs of fuel in a part of the Atlantic Ocean with depths of up to three miles. Brazil’s Navy said three commercial ships in the area were joining the search and France said it would send a ship capable of deep-water exploration. A U.S. spy plane was also diverted from drug interdiction efforts to help with the effort. Air France jet missing with 228 people over Atlantic after running into thunderstormsSAO PAULO — An Air France jet carrying 228 people from Rio de Janeiro to Paris ran into a towering wall of thunderstorms and disappeared over the Atlantic Ocean. French President Nicolas Sarkozy told families of those aboard Monday that “prospects of finding survivors are very small.” Murray keen to overtake Federer in world rankingsLONDON - The world’s third best and Britain’s top tennis player Andy Murray has set himself an ambitious target for this year’s French Open - replacing Roger Federer as the world No 2. |
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Official: No black box signals from Flight 447
