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Algerian-born singer CHEB MAMI has been sentenced to five years in jail for attempting to force an ex-girlfriend to abort their unborn child.

Bahia Bakari, 12, lies in her bed at the Moroni hospital after she miraculously survived the Yemenia airliner crash off the Comoros islands Comorans began 30 days of national mourning yesterday for the victims of the Yemenia Airbus crash as France threatened to blacklist the airline and appointed an ambassador for victims' families.

A proposal for charging carbon tariffs towards imported products will breach the rules of the World Trade Organization and the spirit of Kyoto Protocol, Yao Jian, spokesman of the Ministry of Commerce , said Friday in Beijng.

July's cultural calendar is a little light - and a good thing, too: June's pace was way too intense.

A team of teenage actors and stage crew are rubbing shoulders with some of the best young thespians in Europe this week.

The 12-year-old girl who survived a Yemeni airliner crash by clinging to wreckage in the Indian Ocean flew back to Paris on Thursday for an emotional reunion with her father.

Rap Artist Lil Wayne performs onstage during the 2009 BET Awards held at the Shrine Auditorium on June 28, 2009 in Los Angeles, California.

Supermodel Kate Moss has been photographed wearing a giant diamond on her ring finger, sparking rumours she is engaged to her boyfriend Jamie Hince.

Al Qaeda threatened to "take revenge" on France "by every means and wherever we can reach them" because of a debate in France over whether the burqa, a traditional Islamic woman's covering, violates French law, according to a statement posted on radical Islamist Web sites.

Despite a fractured collarbone, a teenage girl clung to the wreckage of a plane for more than 13 hours before rescuers found her floating in the Indian Ocean, authorities said Wednesday.

France is to return the head of a Maori that was taken from New Zealand by French explorers in the 19th century, after the French senate approved a law authorizing the return Monday.

Blackburn have signed French midfielder Steven N'Zonzi from Amiens SC on a four-year contract.

THE French National Assembly on Friday approved a landmark bill on compensating the victims of nuclear tests carried out in French Polynesia and Algeria over more than three decades.

I traveled to Normandy this week to see something not to be seen in the United States : a nuclear reactor under construction.

An Airbus A330-200 operated by Yemen's state carrier Yemenia Air that took off from Paris has disappeared between Yemen and Comoros with 147 passengers on board, an airport source here said Tuesday.

France's main political parties joined forces yesterday in an attempt to stop Jean Marie Le Pen's far-right National Front conquering its first town for more than a decade after it swept the field in a first-round vote in the Pas-de-Calais area.

The French government says it supports the return of more than a dozen mummified Maori heads to New Zealand, as lawmakers vote to hand back the remnants of a "barbaric trade" in human bodies.

A new, two-step method of ovarian transplant has had excellent results, giving women a greater ability to conceive after cancer treatment or when older, doctors announced Monday.A The technique successfully and quickly restored ovarian function enabling two patients to become pregnant.

The pair was linked romantically after they were spotted enjoying a meal at romantic New York Italian restaurant Il Cantinori last week - with many Internet gossips speculating they have been secretly dating for several months.

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