PARIS - FRENCH legislators on Wednesday set up a panel to look into the spread of full burqas and niqabs among Muslim women in France and will hand in its report by the end of the year.
GENEVA - THE World Health Organisation said on Wednesday it is working to mathematically model the spread of swine flu, as concern grows that actual case numbers may be far higher than the agency's tally of officially diagnosed infections.
MORONI (Comoros) - DESPITE a fractured collarbone, a teenage girl clung to the wreckage of a plane for more than 13 hours before rescuers found her floating in the Indian Ocean, authorities said Wednesday. She is the only known survivor of the crash.
The Yemenia Airbus 310 jet was carrying 153 people when it went down in howling winds early Tuesday in the sea north of the Comoros Islands.
TEHRAN - OPPOSITION leader Mir Hossein Mousavi has said that most Iranians will not consider the new government to be formed by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as legitimate, his website reported on Wednesday.
