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Airbus broke ground April 8, 2013, on a $600 million A320 family final assembly line at Mobile's Brookley Aeroplex, expected to employ 1,000 directly when the plant reaches full production around 2018.

By Muyiwa Adetiba I am not sufficiently grounded in the Catholic traditions to understand why the month of May is devoted to Mary, the virgin mother of Christ.

The second Airbus A330 for national carrier Air Pacific will arrive next Thursday in Nadi.

After American choreographer William Forsythe's cutting-edge performance "Heterotopia" last month, Korea's dance scene is welcoming yet another experimental work from overseas, this time by French choreographer Maguy Marin.

Who's a pretty boy then? Airbus' first completed A350 XWB is unveiled with a full paint-job in Toulouse, France on May 13.

The commercial-scale production line will help the Alpharetta, Ga.-based company meet industry demand for epoxy resin tougheners in the composites industry.

Airbus unveiled the first painted A350 XWB jet Monday at its factory in Toulouse, France.

In 2009, 2373 French companies have beneficiated of this status, which was created in 2004.

Maryka Biaggio, author of "Parlor Games" answers 10 questions about her favorite time period in history, her favorite figures from history, and the age old question of coffee or tea.

Frank Huang was a Chinese communist. He joined the Communist Party of China voluntarily in 1991 after being assigned a government job in Guangdong that had him arranging visits and tours for Chinese expatriates.

In 1858, the Virgin Mary appeared to Bernadette Soubirous, a young peasant girl in Lourdes, France.

A group of 12 'pillownauts' are taking part in a scientific bed study during which they must spend a total of nine weeks lying at a six-degree angle below the horizontal.

S.A. announces that the SES-6 satellite has safely arrived at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.

The Motorola logo on its factory in Toulouse, France. EU anti-trust officials said Monday that Google-owned Motorola was abusing its leading position in Germany's mobile phones market by filing a patent injunction against Apple over certain core smartphone functions.

Since moving to France, Samantha Brick has taken on three abandoned dogs. She says the country has a cavalier attitude towards its animals, which many expat Brits are copying when they head back home The persistent howling outside was something neither my husband nor I had ever heard before.

Some of you may have read the reflections I wrote last spring when I was invited to accompany our former bishop, Bishop Salvatore J. Cordileone, for the Ad Limina visit of the Bishops to Rome and the Holy See.

France 's newest prisoner in the fight against terrorism does not fit the profile of the modern jihadi that French investigators have, in recent years, broadly focused on-that of a young, disaffected man.

The construction project provides a new entry to the gallery while maintaining and reflecting the original architectural style by William Wilkins in 1838.

China has signed an agreement to purchase 60 Airbus jetliners during a visit to Beijing by French President Francois Hollande.

The UN Security Council is set to adopt a resolution Thursday creating a peacekeeping mission in Mali, to take over from French and African forces in the conflict-torn north.