EUROPEAN aerospace giant EADS yesterday unveiled its Zero Emission Hypersonic Transportation (Zehst) rocket plane it hopes will be able to fly from Paris to Tokyo in two-and-a-half hours by about 2050.

THE family of a young Irish woman who died in the June 2009 Air France-KLM plane crash off Brazil believe evidence in the second recovered black box will prove whether the airline was responsible for her death.

One of the world’s most glamorous couples, Desperate Housewives star Eva Longoria and basketball champion Tony Parker, married today in a civil ceremony in Paris that kicked off a weekend wedding extravaganza expected to include church vows and a star-studded chateau bash.