Air France and other airlines today moved to replace speed monitors suspected of feeding false information to the computers of Flight 447 and leading to a series of failures that broke the plane apart over the Atlantic Ocean.

European Union authorities agreed on new measures aimed at preventing a lethal strain of bird flu from entering the bloc and moved to calm people’s fears about contracting the disease, one day after it was confirmed on the continent’s doorstep in Turkey.

FRENCH prosecutors summoned two US airline executives for questioning yesterday after another report into the fatal Concorde crash outside Paris found a metal strip from one of their airliners caused the crash.