Simone Veil, a French political icon who survived Nazi death camps and went on to become a moral figurehead for France, was inducted Thursday into the Academie Francaise — the sixth woman to cross the portals of the centuries-old institution. Three French presidents — Nicolas Sarkozy and predecessors Jacques Chirac ...

Smiling and in high spirits, a five-year-old British boy boarded a flight home from Pakistan on Thursday after being reunited with his overjoyed father following a 12-day kidnapping ordeal. Sporting a new hair cut, Sahil Saeed kicked around a football on the lawn of the British high commissioner's residence in Islamabad, joined by a little girl playmate, and was ...

A five-year-old British boy was reunited with his overjoyed father Thursday following a nearly two-week kidnapping ordeal in Pakistan, playing football in high spirits and smothered in hugs. Sahil Saeed kicked a ball around the lawn of the British high commissioner's residence in Islamabad with a little girl, then smiled and waved while cuddled by his father and other ...

They called her "Bluebell" or "Miss Bluebell" because of the colour of her eyes. From this week on, the Paris Lido remembers the Irish-born founder of the leggy troupe -- Margaret Kelly, born 100 years ago. "She rehearsed the girls into the 1980s, she was amazing, always immaculate, she always looked gorgeous," Australian former Bluebell girl Annette Hirsch told AFP. "The ...