The Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has returned to work a month after an attack by a member of the public left him with a broken nose. He held a meeting to discuss proposed legal reforms. Mr Berlusconi himself faces two trials for corruption and tax fraud. Mr Berlusconi denied any wrongdoing.
The French film maker Eric Rohmer who was an important figure in the post-warNew Wave cinema in France has died aged 89. Rohmer first gained critical acclaim in the 1960s with his series of Six Moral Tales including the collector which won a prize at the Venice film festival. Of his later work. Eric Rohmer is perhaps best known for his Tales of Four Seasons series which was released in the 1990s.
New research has found that a seabird, the Arctic tern, flies more than 70,000 kilometers each year, the longest migration by any creature. Using special devices, scientists tracked the birds as they left their breeding grounds in Greenland to escape the harsh northern winter and flew to warmer waters in Antarctica. The birds repeat the journey home but make a long detour as Carsten Egevang of the Greenland institute of natural resources explained.
The birds will choose a path that will give them wind from the side or may be even tailwind, so they will avoid headwind all the way.And even though they have to fly several thousand kilometers longer,this will allow them to use less energy to get all the way up to their breeding grounds again.