Airport opposed
Paris – A site near the cathedral city of Chartres, south-west of Paris, has been selected for the French capital’s third airport in the teeth of fierce local opposition, writes Mary Dejevsky. Chartres fears the impact of noise and pollution on its tourism.. Meningitis spreads
Geneva – An epidemic of meningitis [...]

“But this is the vote of the people and they will co-operate in the Majlis.” Perhaps. But Hojatoleslam Nateq-Nouri’s supporters have taken up the old social-justice jargon of the discredited radicals, allied themselves with the bazaaris and directed their concerns towards Islamic conduct, to a Saudi-like obsession with women’s clothes and behaviour. The two groups [...]

This was larger than allowed and was “improper”, the report says. It was made when Andrew Foster, now head of the Audit Commission, the NHS and local government spending watchdog, was regional general manager.Mr Foster is not, however, criticised by the inquiry. Yesterday, he said that as chief executive in 1989 he accepted responsibility for [...]

This week’s fragmentary victory in the Castano suit, brought by 60 law firms on behalf of every single smoker who claims to be addicted, will revitalise every other class action suit, in which billions of dollars are at stake. All of which, of course, would suit Mr LeBow mightily.But even Philip Morris cannot discount the [...]

Both Brownings are powerful popular with terrorists for close up work. They are very popular with members of gun clubs for target shooting Adapted from a military weapon. A compact, reliable weapon, although US police stopped using them because bullets were passing through victims and killing innoncent bystanders.Two .357 Magnum revolversThese carry six bullets in [...]

Two of the dead children, Brett McKinnon, 6, whose mother works at the local grocer’s, and Joanna Ross, 5, lived on George Street, where they were often seen together.Joanna’s father, Kenneth, who works as an electrician, said: “She was the apple of my eye. Among the grieving parents, in the community of 7,000 people, are [...]