Authorities today recovered the second of two black boxes from a Yemenia Airways flight that crashed into the Indian Ocean last June with 153 people aboard, an official said.

A French official plane carrying a young girl thought to be the only survivor of the Yemeni air crash today arrived in Paris from Comoros.

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.

Nursing staff today said the teenager believed to be the only survivor of a Yemeni jet crash is "doing well" in a hospital in Comoros.

THE teenage girl who was plucked from the ocean yesterday, the only survivor of an airliner crash that killed 152 people, was fortunate but not unique.

DOUBTS over the safety of a Yemeni jetliner were at the forefront yesterday after an Airbus 310-300 carrying 153 people crashed into the Indian Ocean as it came in for a landing during howling winds on the island nation of Comoros.

A teenage girl was plucked from the ocean today, the only apparent survivor from an airliner crash that killed 152 people.

A toddler was rescued alive today from the wreckage of an airliner that crashed trying to land in the Comoros islands, police said.

A Yemenia Air plane going from the Arabian Peninsula country of Yemen to the island nation of Comoros crashed in the Indian Ocean early today, a Yemen airport official said.

The pilot who managed to safely land a plane on the Hudson River in New York today, saving the lives of all 150 passengers on board, did “absolutely everything right,” according to an aviation expert.

Fighting continued today on the island of Anjouan after troops from Comoros took control of its capital to throw out rebels who have controlled it for the past year.

Explosions and gunfire have resounded in the Indian Ocean nation of Comoros as the government announced it was invading the island of Anjouan to oust a renegade colonel who seized the key island last May.

FRANCE’S best-known mercenary Bob Denard, who had a hand in numerous African wars and coups d’etat over 30 years, has died at the age of 78.

A Somali official said today that an al-Qaida suspect who planned the 1998 US Embassy bombings was killed in airstrike.

The target of US air strikes in Somalia is one of the FBI’s most wanted terrorists and the suspected mastermind of two major terrorist attacks in east Africa.

THE European Union announced a €166 million aid package for 10 African countries yesterday, saying the continent’s poorest nations must be remembered on the first anniversary of the tsunami in Asia.

A volcano erupted on the main island of the Comoros archipelago in the Indian Ocean today, sending thousands of people fleeing from their homes at the urging of the government, officials said.

A ferry which disappeared in a cyclone off Madagascar sank with all but two of its 113 passengers and crew trapped inside.

For weeks, the creaky Balkan Sky, loaded with more than 600 tons of explosives, languished off the Turkish coast waiting for orders to set sail for Sudan with tons of explosives.

The floating “atomic bomb” freighter, under arrest in a Greek port with more than 600 tons of explosives on board was today reported to be Irish owned and was detained in a British harbour earlier this year.

GREECE yesterday said a seized ship carrying an “atomic bomb”-sized quantity of dynamite was destined for a phantom company in Sudan and the crew had been charged with transporting explosives.

More than a dozen mysterious hooded men who invaded the smallest island in the Comoros archipelago appear to have been mercenaries.

A dozen hooded men, claiming to be FBI, have landed on the smallest island in the Comoros archipelago off Mozambique

A military leader ousted in the third coup attempt in three months on the breakaway Comoros island of Anjouan has seized the airport in a bid to regain power.