According to reports, the French consortium was chosen following assurances it would include the transfer of military technology.

It's expected that French shipyards will provide the design and build the hull with the weapons systems being fitted in Russia.

The French aviation authorities say flights into and out of the main airport in Paris should return to normal on Saturday after several days of severe weather disruption. Officials said they cancelled 400 flights at Roissy airport on Friday. At Brussels airport, no flights were allowed to land for much of the day. Here in Britain, international flights are getting back to normal after days of delays and cancellations.

Some 2,000 people have staged a protest in Tel Aviv against Israeli government plans to build a detention centre for African migrants. The protesters

denounce

d the project as racist. The Israeli government approved plans for the centre last month, but a member of the Israeli parliament from the Arab Israeli Hadash party, Dov Khenin, said Israel needs a different approach to immigration.

"We need a different policy. We need

recognition

of refugees that will give them a true and humane response, that it is our duty under international law, it is our duty under human morals and is also our duty due to the history of the Jewish people."

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An Iraqi man has told police he killed his teenage daughter after finding out she'd been recruited by al-Qaeda as a suicide bomber. Police said the man