Reporting from Paris -- Air France Flight 447, which crashed into the Atlantic Ocean, killing all 228 people aboard, probably made a hard belly landing and broke up upon impact with the water, French investigators said Thursday, citing preliminary evidence. None ...Read More
PARIS, Nov. 19 (Xinhua) -- France would not accept any new demand from Iran over its nuclear program, the foreign ministry said on Thursday, a day after the Islamic republic rejected an international proposal to resolve the issue. If dialogue "needs ...Read More
PARIS — France coach Raymond Domenech says he and his players see no reason to apologize for the Thierry Henry handball against Ireland that put the team into the World Cup. Domenech said his team does not feel guilty about the ...Read More
LONDON (Reuters) - Soccer's world governing body FIFA has confirmed that the controversial France v Ireland World Cup playoff will not be replayed. The Irish football association (FAI) appealed to FIFA for a replay after Thierry Henry handled the ball when ...Read More
(CNN) -- A controversial extra-time goal by William Gallas saw France reach the World Cup finals after a 1-1 home draw against the Republic of Ireland in Paris on Wednesday night.
France were trailing 1-0 in the second leg, with the ...Read More
Nov. 18 (Bloomberg) -- Air France-KLM Group, Europe’sbiggest airline, posted a loss in its second quarter asthe recession pummeled passenger traffic, ticket pricesand cargo handling.
The net loss was 147 million euros ($220 million), or50 cents a share, in the three ...Read More
PARIS, Nov. 14 (Xinhua) -- France and Brazil have agreed to take a common policy on climate issue ahead of the UN Copenhagen summit on climate change in December, French President Nicolas Sarkozy said Saturday after meeting with his Brazilian ...Read More
PARIS (AFP) – France and Brazil have adopted a common policy for next week's global warming summit in Copenhagen, French President Nicolas Sarkozy said Saturday. Speaking after talks with his Brazilian counterpart Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, Sarkozy said he would ...Read More
LONDON (Reuters) - British Airways' merger with Spain's Iberia will give the two loss-making airlines the scale they need to ride out recession and compete with larger European rivals Lufthansa and Air France. The agreement, which will create a group with ...Read More
RIO DE JANEIRO — Scores of relatives of the 228 people killed in the June 1 Air France jet crash dedicated a memorial in an upscale beach neighborhood Saturday amid strong criticism that the airline has failed to provide them ...Read More
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) - Scores of relatives of the 228 people killed in the June 1 Air France jet crash dedicated a memorial in an upscale beach neighborhood Saturday amid strong criticism that the airline has failed to provide ...Read More
PARIS—France's investigating judges are a powerful lot: They can order phone taps and home searches, interrogate terrorists and bring down politicians. Now, one has even ordered former French President Jacques Chirac to stand trial. Those sweeping powers may soon end. President Nicolas ...Read More
PARIS - France will mark the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall with an open-air musical spectacle featuring 27 cellists and a laser show telling the fall of communism in a series of gigantic projections in the ...Read More
PARIS (AP) - Air New Zealand has ordered 14 Airbus single-aisle A320 aircraft worth $1.07 billion at catalog prices to replace Boeing jets, the European plane maker said Tuesday. Airbus said in a statement that New Zealand's national carrier has also ...Read More
PARIS -- Air New Zealand has ordered 14 Airbus single-aisle A320 aircraft worth $1.07 billion at catalog prices to replace Boeing jets, the European plane maker said Tuesday. Airbus said in a statement that New Zealand's national carrier has also placed ...Read More
PARIS (Reuters) - France and Germany urged Iran on Monday to accept a U.N.-brokered proposal to enrich its nuclear fuel abroad rather than lose time by asking for a further round of talks. The comments from Germany's new Foreign Minister Guido ...Read More
NEW YORK (AP) - Continental Airlines Inc. said Wednesday it signed two new partnerships with airlines, a day after it joined the world's largest carrier alliance. Continental, based in Houston, signed deals with Japan's largest domestic airline ANA (All Nippon Airways) ...Read More
PARIS -- In a strongly worded internal memo, Air France has warned its pilots to be more vigilant about safety procedures and upbraided those blaming flight equipment for the crash of Flight 447 into the Atlantic in June. No one knows ...Read More
The airline expects to make a big loss this year
Shares in Japan Airlines (JAL) surged more than 11% after local media reported that the government may step in to bail out the troubled airline.
JAL lost about a quarter of ...Read More
EDMONTON - Experts say an Air Canada jet that plunged more than 1,000 metres without warning last year, injuring 10 people, rose up and then dove down a massive invisible wall of smooth air called an internal wave. The official cause ...Read More
PARIS (AP) - Seven-time Tour de France champion Lance Armstrong and 2009 winner Alberto Contador will be on hand Wednesday when organizers unveil the 2010 route for cycling's biggest race. Armstrong and Contador worked together as Astana teammates during this year's ...Read More
