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• Boeing vows robust sales of its bigger 787

  -- Boeing Co. said its stretched 787 Dreamliner promises to match sales of the smallest variant, boosting the plane's order tally as much as 60 percent, as it expanded its widebody lineup to blunt an Airbus SAS challenge. The 787-10 is in "great demand," CEO 6/18/13 Read more »

• AP Interview: Wiggins will be strong in 2014

  in just over a week."I think he'll have his motivation back and be back," Christian Prudhomme said in an interview Tuesday in his Paris office. Elite athletes, he noted, "can fall very low but rebound very quickly."The first two stages in 2014 run through 6/18/13 Read more »

• Boeing nets orders for 102 stretch 787s

  of a strengthening market for more expensive long-haul jets.Boeing announced the formal launch of its 787-10 program at the Paris Air Show on Tuesday and says it already has commitments for 102 jets from five customers: Air Lease Corp., Singapore Airlines, 6/18/13 Read more »

• easyJet to buy 135 single-aisle Airbus A320s

  jets that will allow the European airline to pack in more passengers than it currently does.The companies said Tuesday at the Paris Air Show that the British-based airline scooped up 35 current generation A320s and 100 A320neo's. At list prices, the order 6/18/13 Read more »

• Shiite Iraq militia claims it attacked Iran group

  Liberty also killed an Iraqi and wounded nine Iranians and seven Iraqis.The group, the Mujahedeen-e-Khalq, is the militant wing of a Paris-based Iranian opposition movement that opposes Iran's clerical regime and has carried out assassinations and bombings   Read more »

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• With Just About Every Location Many People Offer That Has A Unique Hued Alma Case.

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• Soccer Stars Are at Center of Paris Prostitution Case

  — President François Hollande may have been at the Group of 8 summit meeting in Northern Ireland on Tuesday discussing the future of the world economy, but much of France was transfixed by the far more salacious proceedings at home concerning two star athletes 59 m ago from The New York Times Read more »

• Skytrax awards

  Garuda Indonesia president director Emirsyah Satar (center) displaysSkytrax awards during the Paris Air Show 2013 in Le Bourget on Tuesday.The national flag carrier received two awards for World’s Best EconomyClass and Best Economy Class Airline Seat. (JP/Arief 6/18/13 from The Jakarta Post Read more »

• A history of real people and real things

  as the audienceâs response 100 years ago to Serge Diaghilevâs choreography for Igor Stravinskyâs Rite of Spring, performed in Paris in 1913 to an audience that rioted as a result. Purists saw in the work the death of anything meaningful in ballet; yet it went 6/18/13 from Ottawa Citizen Read more »

• Serena Williams comments on rape case in interview

  Sharapova during the Women’s final match of the French Open tennis tournament at the Roland Garros stadium Saturday, June 8, 2013 in Paris. Williams won 6-4, 6-4. (AP Photo/David Vincent) Serena Williams says in an interview with Rolling Stone magazine that, 6/18/13 from Inquirer Read more »