Air France has cancelled up to 40% of its long-distance flights because of a strike by pilots and other personnel over their right to hold unannounced walkouts.

THE State yesterday handed over €713m to unsecured Anglo Irish bondholders and will pay out €1.25bn in January.

The state yesterday dutifully handed over €713 million to unsecured Anglo Irish bondholders and will again stick its hands in our pockets and fork out a further €1.25 billion in January.

Freezing weather hit Europe’s airports and high speed train services and saw major events postponed, including music shows and sporting events.

Heavy snowfalls closed Paris’ Charles de Gaulle airport and shut down the Paris bus system today.

Paris: EasyJet Plc, Europe’s second-biggest discount airline, violated labour laws by employing workers at a Paris airport under British labour contracts, a French court ruled.

Kristen Stewart insists she isn't dating her 'Twilight' co-star Robert Pattinson.

RAYMOND DOMENECH was a strong contender to succeed Mick McCarthy as Ireland national team manager in 2002 but failed to make the shortlist, it emerged yesterday.

More than 600,000 French homes suffered power cuts today after 90 mph winds brought chaos to the north and west of the country.

A suspected Islamist terror cell broken up in France is thought to have been plotting attacks on the Paris Metro, an airport and an intelligence agency’s headquarters, it was claimed today.

French authorities have opened a manslaughter case against the former head of the Concorde programme in connection with a deadly crash of the supersonic jet, judicial officials said today.

Nearly three months after the fatal collapse of its futuristic roof, a Paris airport terminal reopened to commercial traffic today.

Part of the Paris airport terminal where a roof collapse killed four people in May has been cleared to reopen for business.

The Paris airport terminal collapse that killed four people in May was probably caused by metal struts piercing the building’s concrete roof, an official report said today.

BRITISH Prime Minister Tony Blair’s top spin doctor was branded “insensitive” yesterday for suggesting the Paris airport disaster was an opportunity to highlight French transport failings.

THE flagship €750 million terminal at Charles de Gaulle airport may have to be razed after cracking sounds were heard yesterday where a roof collapse had killed four people 24 hours earlier.

Tons of concrete collapsed from a ceiling over a check-in area in a passenger terminal at Paris’ largest airport today, killing several people and injuring others, authorities said.

Air France’s streamlined white Concorde swooped into a Paris airport on its final commercial flight home today, an emotional end to years of supersonic travel between New York and Paris.

A retired French soldier whose tip led police to a cache of guns and explosives in a car outside a Paris airport has been taken into custody.

An anti-terrorism investigation was underway in Paris today after a baggage handler was arrested at the city’s Charles de Gaulle airport.

Police arrested a Moroccan passenger when a transatlantic jetliner touched down in Paris today after a friend claimed he intended to blow up the plane.