Mr Plissonnier said the humiliating images were seen "1.4 billion times around the world".

Munster will press ahead with this weekend’s Champions Cup match with Glasgow in spite of having to modify their training schedule this week to allow players and coaches time to sign various books of condolences to coach Anthony Foley.

Flights at Cork Airport have been disrupted by fog with around 300 passengers being affected.

A black box recording from crashed EgyptAir flight MS804 confirms smoke on board, Egyptian investigators have said.

The Boys in Green may have left it until the 85th minute to score the goal that booked their place in the knockout stages of Euro 2016, but there have also been dramatic late developments for a pair of Corkmen.

As French authorities question airport staff who had access to EgyptAir Flight 804, cleaning crews are among those drawing attention.

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The weight may have been lifted from the shoulders of Munster players following the end of their record-equalling losing streak last weekend, but that will all count for nothing if defeat returns to haunt the province in Europe today.

A retired French police officer travelling on an Air France flight was detained after a fake bomb hidden in a lavatory forced his Paris-bound flight to make an emergency landing in Kenya, according to prosecutors.

Detectives were continuing to question six people after a device discovered in the bathroom of an Air France flight was confirmed to be a fake bomb, the airline’s chief executive officer revealed.

Two Air France flights bound for Paris from the US were diverted because of anonymous threats made after take-off.

Officers from Revenue’s Customs Service seized approximately 1.9 kilos of cocaine at Dublin Airport yesterday.

Holiday travel chaos looms as French air traffic controllers plan further work stoppages this month

A daring duo from Trinity College have won this year’s Jailbreak challenge — the annual charity race requiring students get to a secret location in Slovenia without spending a cent of their own money.

FRENCH media estimate up to 3m took part in the Paris rally for unity against terrorism — more than the numbers who took to the capital’s streets when the Allies liberated the city from the Nazis in the Second World War.

The shooting of a jogger in a Paris suburb on the same day as the Charlie Hebdo massacre has been linked to the gunman who killed a policewoman and four hostages at a kosher supermarket, a prosecutor has said.

World leaders have joined tens of thousands of people in a giant rally of national unity to honour the 17 victims of the Paris terror attacks.

The shooting of a jogger in a Paris suburb on the same day as the Charlie Hebdo massacre has been linked to the gunman who killed a policewoman and four hostages at a kosher supermarket, a prosecutor said.

Five people detained in connection with the terror attacks in France have been released from custody, the Paris prosecutor’s spokeswoman said.

Key members of the French government will meet today to decide on new measures aimed at thwarting a repeat of the attacks in Paris that saw a massacre of 12 people at a satirical newspaper, and a supermarket bloodbath that left four hostages dead.

Security forces dramatically ended a three-day terror spree around Paris, killing the two al Qaida-linked brothers who staged a murderous rampage at a satirical magazine, and an associate who seized a kosher supermarket to try to help them escape.

The gunman holding at least five hostages in a kosher market in eastern Paris has threatened to kill them if police launch an assault on the cornered brothers suspected in the newspaper massacre earlier this week, a police official said.

A shooting and hostage-taking attack is under way at a kosher market on the eastern edge of Paris, France’s anti-terrorism prosecutor said.

The brothers who are suspected of carrying out Wednesday's shootings at the offices of satirical Charlie Hebdo on Wednesday are reportedly holed up in a printworks building on the outskirts of Paris.

Emergency services were standing by at Dublin Airport this evening after a flight landed with a burst tyre.

A flight from Dublin to Paris had to make an emergency landing in Birmingham tonight after a crack appeared in one of its windows.

Last Thursday evening, a French-Algerian footballer arrived at Charles de Gaulle Airport on a flight from Doha.

It’s been an eventful week, to say the least. The Wednesday before last was spent at Stade de France, preparing for Saturday’s Parisian derby. It was a lovely, sunny, wintry day in Paris, kicking balls for two hours on the beautiful Stade de France turf ahead of the meeting with Stade Francais. And then we were heading to Charles de Gaulle airport for the flight home to my testimonial dinner.

A Frenchwoman freed from a Mexican jail after a court said police violated her rights by staging her arrest for kidnapping on national television, has returned to Paris to a hero’s welcome.

Air France says it is aiming to reduce staff numbers by more than 10% – 5,000 employees – after a sustained slide in income.

French film star Gerard Depardieu was kicked off a flight to Dublin after he was caught short as he waited for take-off and peed into a bottle.

Jonathan Rhys Meyers has undergone his fourth stint in rehab.

Passengers spent Christmas Eve camped in airports in Paris and Brussels after new snowfall and shortages of de-icing fluid disrupted travel across Europe.

Paris’s main airport got an early Christmas gift flown in from the United States today – a supply of de-icing fluid to get planes airborne.

Europe’s Christmas travel crisis eased slightly today but there were still substantial airport and train delays.

SNOW and freezing temperatures continued to cause holiday travel chaos for road, rail and air passengers throughout much of Europe yesterday, raising fears that many will not get home in time for Christmas.

Hundreds of thousands of air passengers are stranded at airports across Europe this morning as snow grounds flights.

CONTINENTAL Airlines and one of its mechanics were convicted in a French court of manslaughter yesterday because debris from one of its planes caused the crash of an Air France Concorde jet that killed 113 people a decade ago.

US airline Continental and one of its mechanics were today convicted of causing the Air France Concorde crash that killed 113 people 10 years ago.