Three men are to be go on trial in France on Monday on charges of beating up the great-nephew of French first lady Brigitte Macron last month outside her family's chocolate shop.. The trial is due to get underway at midday GMT. Brigitte Macron's family have run the Jean Trogneux chocolate shop in the centre of her home city of Amiens for six generations.
Airlines will return to profit and fly a near-record 4.35 billion passengers this year, but the sector's post-pandemic recovery remains fragile, an industry group said on Monday.. - Profits equal to $2.25 per passenger - Airlines transported a record 4.54 billion people in 2019 before Covid brough travel to a standstill.
Prince Harry will become the first senior British royal to give evidence in court for more than a century when he testifies this week against a tabloid newspaper publisher for illegal information-gathering.. The California-based prince also made a surprise appearance at the High Court in March for a privacy claim he and others have launched against Associated Newspapers (ANL), publisher of the Daily Mail.
A man went on trial in France on Monday facing accusations of stabbing and then burning alive a 15-year-old girl in 2019 who was likely pregnant by him at the time.. The man, who was aged 17 at the time, is accused of luring Shaina to a shed in the town of Creil north of Paris to kill her and burn her body.
India's deadliest train disaster in decades killed at least 275 people and injured hundreds more, a tragedy officials have said was linked to an electronic signal system.. India's worst crash was in 1981, when an overcrowded passenger train plunged into a river during a cyclone in Bihar state, killing about 800 people.
A Citroen 2CV made of wood, thought to be the only one of its kind, has sold for 210,000 euros ($225,000) at auction in France, setting a new price record for the iconic vehicle.. The previous high for a 2CV was set in 2016, when an extremely rare 1961 2CV Sahara in almost mint condition was sold for 172,800 euros by Paris-based auction house Artcurial.
Passenger and freight trains were running again on Monday at the site of India's deadliest train disaster in decades, which officials said was caused by failures linked to signal systems.. It slammed into a freight train and the wreckage derailed an express running north from India's tech hub Bengaluru to Kolkata.
Passenger and freight trains were running again on Monday at the site of India's deadliest train disaster in decades, which officials said was caused by failures linked to signal systems.. It slammed into a freight train and the wreckage derailed an express running north from India's tech hub Bengaluru to Kolkata.
The once-dominant PRI conceded defeat on Sunday to Mexico's ruling party in a key state election seen as a prelude to next year's presidential vote.. With 88.1 percent of votes counted, Gomez had a nine percent lead over her PRI rival.
Hong Kong's top court on Monday quashed the conviction of a journalist in relation to her investigation into an attack on democracy supporters by government loyalists in 2019.. Choy's searches were made for a documentary she produced in 2020 for Hong Kong's public broadcaster RTHK. It investigated the police's failure to respond quickly enough to the July 2019 attack, a watershed moment in the huge and often violent pro-democracy protests that year, which dealt a blow to public trust in the force.
