A FRENCH medical team yesterday hailed as a success pioneering surgery on a man in near zero-gravity conditions on a flight looping in the air like a roller coaster to mimic weightlessness.

A French medical team today hailed as a success pioneering surgery on a man in near zero-gravity conditions on a flight looping in the air like a roller coaster to mimic weightlessness.

A family of five killed in the France train fire was returning from a one-day visit to Paris to see the city where the father had proposed to his future wife more than 16 years earlier.