Former Panama dictator Manuel Noriega today began speaking in a Paris courtroom in a trial that could send him to jail for another decade after 20 years in US custody.

Societe Generale had the means to track soaring bets that cost the French banking giant billions – and stop him, lawyers for accused rogue trader Jerome Kerviel said today.

The defence lawyer for Continental Airlines challenged court experts, the prosecutor, the judge and the plaintiff – Air France – today as a French court wrapped up a trial into the crash of a Concorde supersonic jet 10 years ago.

CONTINENTAL Airlines and five men went on trial yesterday for their alleged role in the crash of an Air France Concorde that killed 113 people in 2000 and ended an era of luxury supersonic travel.

A court today finally began to decide who was to blame for Air France’s 2000 Concorde crash, an accident that killed 113 people and hastened the end of the world’s only supersonic airliner.

A four-month trial over the Air France Concorde crash 10 years ago will begin today.

WAS an abandoned scrap of metal on the runway really the main culprit in the fiery crash of an Air France Concorde shortly after takeoff?

ROCK star Bertrand Cantat was jailed for eight years yesterday for beating his film star girlfriend to death in a case that horrified France.