Nicolas Sarkozy won some 53 per cent of the vote. Photo / Reuters
Nicolas Sarkozy won some 53 per cent of the vote. Photo / Reuters
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Sarkozy wins French vote, pledges change
PARIS - Conservative Nicolas Sarkozy triumphed in France's presidential election on Sunday, sweeping aside his Socialist rival Segolene Royal and winning a powerful mandate for reform.
Sarkozy won 53.1 per cent of the ballot against 46.9 per cent for Royal, withvoters signing up to his vision of a hardworking France and turning a deaf ear to leftist accusations he would prove a divisive, dangerous and abrasive leader.
YAOUNDE - A Kenya Airways plane that went missing with 114 people board crashed in a swamp a short distance from Cameroon's Douala airport but there was no word of any survivors.
The Boeing 737-800, which was carrying passengers from more than 20 countries, vanished on Saturday local time shortly after taking off from Douala for Nairobi in torrential rain.
OVERLAND PARK, Kansas - Rescue crews have combed piles of debris where homes and businesses once stood in Greensburg, Kansas, in a meticulous search for survivors of a killer tornado.
By nightfall searchers had not found anyone else -- alive or dead -- in the rubble, leaving the twister's toll at eight dead in the tiny farming community of Greensburg and one dead in nearby Pratt County as a result of Friday night's twister. At least 50 people were injured, some critically.
