Mayor of paris stabbed at overnight concert

THE Mayor of Paris, Bertrand Delanoe was recovering in hospital today after being stabbed during an overnight concert at City Hall, city officials and firefighters said.

Mr Delanoe was rushed to a Paris hospital after an attacker lunged at him with a knife and struck him once in the abdomen, officials said.

He underwent surgery and was transferred to a recovery room shortly before 7am yesterday, according to a statement issued by Pitie-Salpetriere hospital in Paris.