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• WORLD

• INDIA: Despite trade deals, Indians 'disappointed' with Obama over Pakistan

  Barack Obama has kicked off a three-day trip to India with the announcement of billions of dollars in trade deals. Local media and the opposition however have criticised the president for failing to mention Pakistan in a speech about terrorism.
• IVORY COAST: Council refuses ballot recount, sets Nov. 21 for run-off vote

  Ivory Coast’s constitutional council validated results of the first round of the presidential election Saturday evening, thereby denying opposition leaders a requested recount. The vote between the two leading candidates will now go ahead on 21 Nov.
• FRANCE: Anti-reform activists push on despite waning support

  Despite having lost their battle in parliament last week, some 375,000 (French interior ministry) pension reform protesters – the lowest number yet – took to the streets of France on Saturday to voice their ongoing discontent.
• GERMANY: Tens of thousands turn out to protest ‘Chernobyl on wheels’

  Tens of thousands of people turned out in the northern German town of Dannenberg on Saturday to protest the arrival of a train carrying radioactive nuclear waste from France. The demonstrators say that storage process of the waste is not safe.
• BURMA: Opposition accuse Burmese regime of fraud one eve of elections

  Opposition leaders in Burma accused the ruling military junta of fraud and of restricting the flow of information within the country on Saturday, ahead of elections on Sunday. The elections have been widely criticised for a lack of transparency.

• BUSINESS

• DEFENCE: EU govts reach new deal on much-delayed A400M plane

  France said Friday that it would receive its first A400M military transport plane in 2013 after European governments struck a new deal to finance the aircraft, which has been plagued by cost overruns and manufacturing delays.
• USA: Fed to buy $600 billion in debt to boost struggling US recovery

  US stocks took a tumble after peaking in volatile trading Wednesday after the Federal Reserve unveiled plans to buy 600 billion dollars of government bonds in an effort to breath life into the floundering US recovery.
• DIPLOMACY: French firms seal lush deals during visit by China's Hu

  Chinese officials have signed a raft of lucrative contracts with aircraft manufacturer Airbus and French energy giants Total and Areva during a visit to France by China's President Hu Jintao.
• TECHNOLOGY: British watchdog slams Google 'Street View' for breaching privacy

  Britain has charged Internet giant Google's Street View cars of unlawfully collecting private information from wireless networks, but said Wednesday that the company will not be fined for the infraction.
• USA: Consumer spending drives boost in US growth

  The US economy grew by 2% in the third quarter according to the Commerce Department. Driving the growth was consumer spending, which increased by 2.6%.

• SPORTS

• TENNIS: Nadal pulls out of Paris Masters with shoulder injury

  The men's world number one Rafael Nadal has pulled out of next week's Paris Masters in order to rest an injured shoulder ahead of the season-ending World Tour finals in London later this month.
• EUROPA LEAGUE: City slump to defeat as Liverpool battle past Napoli

  Liverpool fought back from a goal down at Anfield Thursday to defeat Napoli 3-1 thanks to a hat-trick by Steven Gerrard. Elsewhere, Manchester City slumped to a 3-1 defeat at Lech Poznan (photo), while Dortmund held PSG to a goalless draw.
• CHAMPIONS LEAGUE: Spurs sink title holders Inter Milan 3-1

  In their first ever Champions League campaign, Tottenham thumped title holders Inter Milan 3-1. After a nervous first round match, talisman Gareth Bale set the tempo for the blistering performance.
• TENNIS: Clijsters lifts WTA Championships title in Doha

  Belgium's Kim Clijsters came from behind to beat world number one Caroline Wozniacki of Denmark on Sunday and pick up a second WTA Championships title, seven years after winning her first.
• GOLF: British golfer Lee Westwood topples Woods as world number one

  British golfer Lee Westwood is to take over as world number one when the new rankings are published on Monday, knocking Tiger Woods from the top spot he has held for the last five years.

• CULTURE

• MEDIA: BBC apologises for 'unfair' report on aid money being used for rebel arms

  The BBC apologised on air on Thursday to the Band Aid humanitarian group and co-founder Bob Geldof (pictured) for a "misleading and unfair" report in March claiming aid money sent to Ethiopia in 1985 was used by rebel forces to buy weapons.
• ENTERTAINMENT: US beauty queen crowned Miss World in China

  Alexandria Mills, an 18-year-old from the US state of Kentucky, became Miss World 2010 on Saturday, at the end of the beauty competition hosted in the Chinese resort town of Sanya.
• CULTURE: Movie stars come out for opening night of the Rome Film Festival

  Keira Knightley (left) and Eva Mendes (right) will turn out for opening night of the Rome film festival on Thursday. The two appear alongside Sam Worthington and Guillaume Canet in the romantic thriller "Last Night", which opens the festival.
• CULTURE: FIAC art fair, Gagosian gallery give Paris a boost on world art scene

  Top art dealer Larry Gagosian opened a gallery in Paris this week, calling it a sign the French capital is "reclaiming" its role on the world art scene. The opening came just ahead of the launch of the FIAC contemporary art fair (photo) on Oct. 21.
• CULTURE: New Hockney exhibit in Paris uses iPhones, iPad in place of canvas

  At British artist David Hockney’s new exhibit in Paris, iPads and iPhones take the place of canvas. Using the "Brushes" application, which allows users to paint with their fingers, Hockney created a series of colourful landscapes and still lifes.

• SCIENCE

• Clichy riots: five years on

  In today’s French press review, we focus on the five year anniversary of the riots that took place in the Parisian suburb of Clichy.
  The death of two boys chased by the police near a power transformer sparked extreme violence in the region.
  Also in the papers: medical assistance on the internet and the worst US campaign adverts, seven days before the mid-terms.

• Can Europe Stop Smoking?

  Finland has just become the first country in the world to make a law aiming to eradicate smoking entirely. The government has introduced a bill which aims to make Finland smoke-free by 2040. On October 1st, the first measures of the so-called Tobacco Act were introduced, making it harder for people under 18 to smoke, and restricting smoking outdoors. And tougher measures are to come. But can Europe follow the lead?

• Insects in the City

  While over 200 countries come together in Japan to work out a road map to stop the extinction of species, ENVIRONMENT looks at the bugs and pests that are gaining in strength and taking over towns. Insecticides have gotten less toxic over the years and some species are profiting, but scientists in France may soon be able to trap them using the laws of attraction.

• Industrial impacts on our health

  An accident at an Alumina factory in Hungary smothers three villages with a toxic sludge, leaving 9 dead and scores of others burned and badly injured. HEALTH meets those burned by the alkaline mud which ate deep into their skin. At Budapest’s hospitals doctors still rely on results from Greenpeace to see what metals or toxic materials are present in the mud.

• Police arrest suspects in US healthcare fraud worth $163 million

  A network of suspected Armenian gangsters used means such as setting up fake medical clinics to try and cheat the government's medical insurance programme out of $163 million, the largest fraud by a criminal enterprise in the programme’s history.

• FRANCE

• FRANCE: Sarkozy hosts China's Hu for talks on French Riviera

  French President Nicolas Sarkozy has sought the backing of China's President Hu Jintao for plans to reform the global monetary system during talks in the seaside resort of Nice, a day after the two countries signed a raft of lucrative business deals.
• FRANCE: Protests continue as nuclear waste train nears Germany

  A train carrying radioactive nuclear waste neared the French-German border Saturday, after switching its overnight route to avoid French protesters. Demonstrations are planned for the German town of Dannenberg later Saturday where the train is bound.
• FRANCE: Anti-reform activists push on despite waning support

  Despite having lost their battle in parliament last week, some 375,000 (French interior ministry) pension reform protesters – the lowest number yet – took to the streets of France on Saturday to voice their ongoing discontent.
• FRANCE: Rights activists protest against Chinese leader's visit

  Around 20 rights activists protested in Paris on Friday against the state visit of Chinese President Hu Jintao, calling for jailed 2010 Nobel Peace Prize laureate Liu Xiaobo to be freed.
• FRANCE: Campers descend on central Paris to highlight plight of homeless

  Dozens of activists protesting against homelessness and poor housing conditions have set up camp in the heart of Paris. Temporarily housed in red tents, they say they won’t budge until President Nicolas Sarkozy gives in to their demands.

• EUROPE

• Russian reporter left in coma after beating outside home

  A reporter for a major Russian newspaper was left in a coma on Saturday after two men brutally assaulted him, smashing his head and legs and removing one of his fingers. Prosecutors believe the attack to be linked to his work.
• Tens of thousands turn out to protest ‘Chernobyl on wheels’

  Tens of thousands of people turned out in the northern German town of Dannenberg on Saturday to protest the arrival of a train carrying radioactive nuclear waste from France. The demonstrators say that storage process of the waste is not safe.
• Pope criticises anti-church sentiment on visit to Spain

  During a two-day visit to Spain on Saturday, Pope Benedict XVI called on the country to reverse the tide of anti-church sentiment and to reinvigorate its Christian roots.
• Protests continue as nuclear waste train nears Germany

  A train carrying radioactive nuclear waste neared the French-German border Saturday, after switching its overnight route to avoid French protesters. Demonstrations are planned for the German town of Dannenberg later Saturday where the train is bound.
• EU govts reach new deal on much-delayed A400M plane

  France said Friday that it would receive its first A400M military transport plane in 2013 after European governments struck a new deal to finance the aircraft, which has been plagued by cost overruns and manufacturing delays.

• MIDDLE-EAST

• TERRORISM: Al Qaeda affiliate claims cargo plane bomb plot

  Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) has claimed responsibility for a parcel bomb plot that was uncovered last week, as well as the crash in September of a UPS plane in Dubai.
• IRAQ: Series of deadly blasts strike Baghdad's Shiite areas

  Dozens have been killed after a series of fatal blasts struck Iraq's capital Baghdad Tuesday, targeting mainly Shiite neighbourhoods. The attacks come two days after 52 hostages and police were killed in an al Qaeda linked church attack.
• MIDDLE EAST: Israel cuts ties with UNESCO after holy site classified as 'mosque'

  Israel suspended relations with UNESCO Wednesday after the cultural branch of the UN classified the tomb of the biblical matriarch Rachel as a mosque. The site is near Bethlehem in the West Bank, and is considered holy by both Jews and Muslims.
• IRAN: Woman sentenced to stoning will be hanged, activists say

  An Iranian woman who was sentenced to be stoned for adultery will instead be hanged in connection with her husband's murder on Wednesday, a German human rights group said. The case of Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani has provoked an international outcry.
• IRAQ: Al Qaeda-linked group says Christians are 'legitimate targets'

  An al Qaeda group in Iraq has declared in an internet statement that Christians are "legitimate targets". The announcement comes in the wake of a hostage drama at a Baghdad church that ended in the deaths of 46 worshippers during a rescue on Sunday.

• AFRICA

• IVORY COAST: Ivory Coast accuses Senegal of election interference

  Ivory Coast accused Senegal of interfering in its runoff presidential election on Saturday and recalled its foreign ambassador to Dakar, following a private meeting between Senegalese president Abdoulaye Wade and opposition leader Alassane Ouattara.
• DR CONGO: Rwandan rebel leader to faces charges in The Hague

  A French court has given the go ahead on the transfer of exiled Rwandan rebel leader Callixte Mbarushimana (pictured) to the International Criminal Court Wednesday to stand trial for alleged war crimes committed in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
• FRANCE: Rwandan leader’s widow granted time to fight extradition for genocide

  A French court Tuesday has granted Agathe Habyarimana (pictured), the widow of assassinated Rwandan president Juvenal Habyarimana, more time to fight her extradition from France in connection with the 1994 genocide in Rwanda.
• IVORY COAST - Q&A: UN increases troop presence in sensitive areas

  As Ivorians vote in Sunday’s much-awaited, much-postponed presidential poll, the UN has increased its troop presence in three areas of Ivory Coast. Its objective: to reassure voters who fear an outbreak of violence following the poll.
• IVORY COAST: Polls close in long-awaited presidential vote

  Several polling stations set up for Ivorian expats in the Paris region failed to open Sunday, sparking anger among voters. While opposition members say the poll was rigged, electoral officials are adamant all went smoothly.

• AMERICAS

• Fear of mudslides after deadly Hurricane Tomas hits Haiti

  Six people lost their lives in Haiti as Hurricane Tomas moved across the Caribbean towards the Turks and Caicos Islands early Saturday. Hundreds of thousands of Haitians battled against the storm overnight in temporary flood-hit shelters.
• High profile Mexican drug lord killed in deadly shootout

  Mexican security forces killed Antonio Ezequiel Cardenas Guillen (pictured), who is allegedly one of the country's most-wanted drug traffickers, in a ferocious gunfight in the northern city of Matamoros on Friday.
• Obama heads for Asia with eye to boosting jobs back home

  US President Barack Obama arrives in India on Saturday for the start of a 10-day Asia tour aimed at forging stronger economic ties, four days after US voters punished his Democratic Party in midterm elections influenced by the morose economy.
• Hurricane Tomas floods quake survivor camps

  Haitian refugee camps crowded with over a million people left homeless by January's devastating earthquake were flooded on Friday as Hurricane Tomas dumped heavy rain on the impoverished Caribbean island.
• Plane crashes en route to Havana, killing all 68 aboard

  Cuban authorities say AeroCaribbean Flight 883 went down in a mountainous area on Thursday carrying 61 passengers and a crew of seven from the city of Santiago de Cuba to Havana and killing all aboard, including 28 foreigners.

• ASIA-PACIFIC

• Despite trade deals, Indians 'disappointed' with Obama over Pakistan

  Barack Obama has kicked off a three-day trip to India with the announcement of billions of dollars in trade deals. Local media and the opposition however have criticised the president for failing to mention Pakistan in a speech about terrorism.
• Why is Obama wooing the Indian juggernaut?

  On Saturday, US President Barack Obama kicked off a three-day visit to India, the longest trip of his presidency to any one country. Why is the Asian giant so important to the American superpower?
• Obama pays tribute to Mumbai victims, boosts trade with India

  President Obama has kicked off a three-day trip to India with the announcement of billions of dollars in trade deals, deepening ties between the two countries. He also used the visit to pay tribute to victims of the Mumbai terrorist attack.
• Opposition accuse Burmese regime of fraud one eve of elections

  Opposition leaders in Burma accused the ruling military junta of fraud and of restricting the flow of information within the country on Saturday, ahead of elections on Sunday. The elections have been widely criticised for a lack of transparency.
• Obama visits Mumbai memorial, vows to 'eradicate' terrorism

  On the first day of his visit to India US President Barack Obama signed a book of condolences for the victims of the 26/11 terrorist attacks in Mumbai and vowed to "eradicate the scourge of terrorism" throughout the world.