LONDON - PRIME Minister Gordon Brown sparked uproar in Britain's House of Commons on Wednesday by claiming to have 'saved the world', in a slip of the tongue seized on with glee by the opposition.

Mr Brown - who has rejected humourous comparisons with cartoon superhero Flash Gordon - was replying to taunts on his handling of the economic crisis from opposition Conservative leader David Cameron.

LONDON - A FILM showing a terminally-ill man ending his own life at a Swiss clinic has reignited the debate about assisted suicide in Britain, where it was due to be screened on Wednesday.

Craig Ewert, a 59-year-old former university lecturer from the United States, suffered from motor neurone disease and chose to end his life rather than endure its 'nightmare' symptoms, his wife Mary said.

PARIS - A PROSECUTOR says authorities have mobilised 150 police and issued an urgent appeal for help to track down a 2-day-old boy believed kidnapped from a maternity clinic in southwest France.

Prosecutor Erick Maurel says police were chasing leads from witnesses who said they saw a tall and 'corpulent' woman, about 40 and wearing a black overcoat, leave the clinic in the town of Orthez with the baby in her arms.