TWO French junior government ministers have resigned after scandals involving spending state money on a private jet and thousands of euro worth of cigars.

US defence secretary Robert Gates said the US would not have an expanded policing role in quake-ravaged Haiti, but troops could defend themselves and civilians or foreigners if lawlessness boiled over.

A BRUISED teenage girl who is the only known survivor of a Yemeni jet crash clung to wreckage for more than 13 hours before rescuers found her floating in the Indian Ocean, a French official said yesterday.

The injured 14-year-old sole survivor of the Comoros plane crash told today how she clung to floating wreckage for 13 hours before she was found.