French President Nicolas Sarkozy has urged networks not to broadcast videos shot by an Islamist extremist killer during a shooting spree in France.
President Nicolas Sarkozy says he would bar some Muslim preachers from entering France as part of a crackdown after shootings there by an extremist.
Toulouse gunman Mohamed Merah’s brother is under investigation on suspicion of being an accomplice to the killing spree that left seven people dead.
Signs have mounted that the brother of a radical Islamist gunman who killed schoolchildren and paratroopers in France may have helped him.
The older brother of the radical Islamist Mohamed Merah who killed seven people in France has told police he is "proud" of his brother.
Police have lost contact with Mohamed Merah, the gunman suspected of seven people, more than a day after 300 police first surrounded his house.
A gunman suspected of killing seven people, including three children at a Jewish school, says he would hand himself over to police.
A gunman suspected of killing three children and a rabbi at a Jewish school in France has wounded three police officers in a shoot-out during a raid.
France has all but forgotten its presidential election amid a massive manhunt for the serial killer who slew children and a teacher in Toulouse.
The Toulouse prosecutor says a gunman has opened fire in front of a Jewish school in a southwest French city killing several people.
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/ 16 November 2009
The South African Rugby Union has written to the French Rugby Union expressing dismay at the performance of the national anthem on Friday night.
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/ 14 November 2009
France kept world champion South Africa scoreless in the second half to come back and win their rugby Test 20-13 on Friday.
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/ 16 January 2008
Airbus confirmed 2007 as a record year for planemakers on Wednesday by posting orders for 1 341 aircraft while boosting cost savings aimed at catching arch-rival Boeing, which took top spot with 1 413 orders and has suffered less from a weakened dollar than Airbus.
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/ 15 October 2007
Airbus on Monday delivered the first of its A380s, the world’s biggest passenger jet, to Singapore Airlines, 18 months behind schedule but with both sides hailing the major advance in air travel. The 73m-long superjumbo was handed over in a ceremony at the Airbus headquarters in Toulouse in southern France.
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/ 29 September 2007
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New Zealand finished the World Cup pool stage in style with a spectacular demonstration of running and passing to demolish Romania 85-8 on Saturday. The All Blacks racked up 13 tries, three coming from flying winger Joe Rokocoko, as they blew away their opponents with some dazzling rugby to the delight of the packed crowd at the Stade Toulouse.
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/ 25 September 2007
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Romania ground out a slogging 14-10 win over brave Portugal for their first win of the Rugby World Cup at Toulouse Stadium in France on Tuesday. The Romanians fought back from 7-0 down at half-time to overpower the Portuguese through their superior forward pack.
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/ 16 September 2007
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Hosts France showed no mercy to 14-man Namibia on Sunday as they got some vital momentum for Friday’s crucial Group D World Cup clash with Ireland, winning 87-10 to post their record score in international rugby. Vincent Clerc ran in three tries, while locks Jerome Nallet and Sebastian Chabal grabbed a brace each.
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/ 12 September 2007
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Fiji overcame sweltering conditions in Toulouse and stubborn Japanese resistance to win their opening pool B World Cup match 35-31 on Wednesday. Japan thrilled the crowd by fighting all the way to the final whistle against their more experienced and bigger opponents, who picked up a crucial bonus point for scoring four tries, before agonisingly coming up just short.
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/ 28 February 2007
European jet maker Airbus is set to axe 10 000 of its 56 000 workforce as part of a cost-cutting operation to lift it out of a financial crisis. The company said on Wednesday it will cut the jobs over four years: 4 300 in France, 3 700 in Germany, 1 600 in Britain and 400 in Spain.
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/ 9 February 2007
France flyhalf Frederic Michalak has signed a one-year contract to play for the Natal Sharks in South Africa after this year’s World Cup, Sud Radio reported on Friday. The 24-year-old Toulouse playmaker will make an official announcement on his transfer at a press conference in Paris later on Friday.
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/ 24 January 2005
A 48-year-old Frenchman who went missing last month has been found emaciated but alive in an underground cave system where he spent 35 days in pitch blackness eating nothing but wood and clay, police said on Sunday. "It was truly terrible fumbling around with nothing to eat," Jean-Luc Josuat-Verges said.
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/ 18 January 2005
Airbus on Tuesday lifted the curtain on its A380 super jumbo — the world’s biggest passenger aircraft that is set to eclipse Boeing’s 747 when it takes to the skies next year. The European company unveiled the aircraft, which can carry up to 840 passengers, at a glitzy ceremony at its headquarters in Toulouse, south-west France.
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/ 5 December 2003
An extra 10-million passengers a year will be able to pass through London’s Heathrow airport thanks to a new generation of ”super-jumbos”. The Airbus A380 is in production at sites across Europe and is due to take off in three years.
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/ 24 January 2003
South African Airways (SAA) is likely to improve its operating profit during the current financial year, while the airline is considering purchasing the Airbus A380 ”super-jumbo” in the coming years, SAA chief executive Andre Viljoen announced in France on Thursday.
The Airbus A380, the biggest airliner built to date, completed a momentous maiden flight on Wednesday, winning praise from one of the pilots as a ”magnificent machine” and opening a new era in aviation history. ”We had a very successful first flight and thoroughly enjoyed every minute of it,” said Claude Lelaie, one of the two pilots and the head of the Airbus flight division.
South African Airways (SAA) has placed Africa’s largest single jetliner order and has formalised the acquisition of 41 new Airbus aircraft which will be used to modernise its entire fleet.