The first component of Blues Blanc

TEAM FRANCE – against Norway, the coach lines up six new ones. Mexes captain.

TEAM FRANCE – Faced with Norway, has six new coach. Mexes captain. That's it, Laurent Blanc has filed its first game sheet. Against Norway, and missed 23 of the last World Cup, the new coach of the Blues decided a completely new eleven, with Philippe Mexes as captain and six players who have no selection. In goal, “the President” so aligns Stéphane Ruffier (0 selected). Monaco goalkeeper, on a cloud right now, so celebrating his first cap in Blue. This observation also applies to five other players. In defense, the hinge will be composed of the captain, Mexes (13 selections), and Adil Rami Lille (0 selected), often called by Raymond Domenech, but never aligned before. On the sides, Rod Fanni Rennes (4 selections) will occupy the right flank, while Aly Cissokho (0 selected) will debut on the left. In midfield, Laurent Blanc has chosen to align four players diamond. Thus, there is another Rennais, Yann Mvila (0 selected) in front of the defense lookout, while Moussa Sissoko (2 selections) will play right. On the left side is the surprise Charles N'Zogbia (0 selected) which is aligned as a holder. Finally, Samir Nasri (15 caps) will serve as playmaker behind two strikers. A duo consisting of offensive Nice Loïc Rémy (1 selection) and Guillaume Hoarau Paris (0 selected). The composition against Norway: Ruffier Â-Fanni, Rami, Mexes, Cissokho Â-Sissoko, Mvila, N'Zogbia, Nasri Remy, Hoarau

Hostages: No ransom for France

AQIM claimed would “at least 90 million” to release the French prisoners.

“We do not negotiate on this basis.” Alain Juppe left no doubt cast on Monday to the proposed payment of a ransom for the release of four French nationals kidnapped in Niger in September 2010 and still hostage to Al-Qaeda in Islamic Maghreb. Through the voice of its Minister of Foreign Affairs, France has simply dismissed the possibility.

The existence of this ransom was revealed Monday by a source close to the Nigerian mediation set up to try to secure the release of four French people. “The kidnappers demanded at least 90 million. They also demand the release of AQIM prisoners arrested in several countries including France, “said this source, found in northern Mali. In addition, AQIM would have demanded the release of several prisoners.

90 million have been requested Beyond the principled opposition to the payment of a ransom, long standing by the French executive, the amount claimed by AQIM is particularly important. It is notably higher than the annual amount of special funds voted by the French Parliament.

The four French people who remain in the hands of AQIM are all men: Daniel Larribe, part of the Areva group and husband of Frances Larribe, Thierry Dol, Pierre Legrand and Marc Ferret. February 24, three people, Françoise Larribe, wife of Daniel Larribe and a Togolese and a Malagasy, had been released after payment of a ransom paid by the French group Areva, a source familiar with the matter.

Repeat a nose, a work of art?

The transformation of a nose or reconstruction of a skull are they art? A New York gallery exhibits photos of plastic surgery on the principle of the pre-during-after and organizers agree the debate.

“I can teach you the technique to trace a face, and sew the cut here,” said Anthony Berlet, cosmetic surgeon behind the project, also an architect and designer. “But take a rhinoplasty (nose reshaping), why you have to have artistic talent, understanding the proportions of the face is this creative process as shown in the video, it does not say this is the old hag and this is the young princess, we show the process of sculpting the body, which is as beautiful as the final product. ”

The aesthetic appreciation is a personal feeling and you need the faint of heart to browse the exhibition “I am a work of art”, which runs until May 9 to Apexart, a small gallery in lower Manhattan.

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mentioned by Dr. Berlet is challenging. For six interminable minutes, you can see a nose completely back on itself and bloody, while the latex-gloved hands sawing, cut and reshape the cartilage, then put back in the envelope of skin returns to its original position.

The result, a few weeks after the resorption of hematomas, “is very successful,” admits Mary Lou, a visitor in his sixties. “But I would never do it, first because I have a nose Asian and I do not want it to become mixed, then because I hate the surgery.”

“There is an uncomfortable voyeur in all of this,” said Mark Melamed, an ophthalmologist. “I'm not sure whether it's art,” said he, “it's fascinating from a technical standpoint but not aesthetic and scientific.”

Bombay: Sarkozy condemns attacks

President Nicolas Sarkozy has "condemned" Wednesday "with the strongest possible terms the cowardly and blind violence" of the Mumbai attacks, saying that "France stands firmly alongside India in the fight against the scourge of terrorism" .

"As the city of Bombay has once again been hit by a series of terrorist acts, the President condemns in the strongest terms the cowardly and indiscriminate violence that characterizes them and wishes to express in these hours painful the full solidarity of France with the Indian authorities, "said the Elysee Palace in a statement.

"More than ever, France stands firmly alongside India in the fight against the scourge of terrorism," concluded the French presidency. At least 20 people were killed and 113 injured in three simultaneous explosions that hit Mumbai on Wednesday evening, the financial capital of India, according to the Indian Ministry of Interior.

Mumbai attacks: At least 17 dead

Three simultaneous explosions hit the economic and financial capital of India.

At the exit of the office. According to witnesses, a car bomb that exploded around 6:45 p.m. (local time) before a building housing the diamond dealers and jewelers. Two other explosions took place in a residential area and on the market of gold and silver from Zaveri Bazaar. The latest assessment reports reviewed by at least 17 dead and over 130 injured. An earlier announced 21 deaths. This is the deadliest attack in the city since 2008.

Aagam Doshi, a diamond merchant who survived one of the explosions, said to have "heard a loud explosion." "We went out, and places were covered with black smoke. There were bodies everywhere on the ground, a lot of blood."

Alert to the Interior Minister Palaniappan Chidambaram, this is a "coordinated attack by terrorists." "The whole city of Bombay has been placed on alert," he added. "It is clear that the authors wanted to reach as many people as possible," said his side a minister of local government, Chhagan Bhujbal.

For now, the attacks have not been claimed but the eyes are on two Islamist groups active in India, the Indian Mujahideen and the Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), based in Pakistan. The latter group had been accused by India of being behind the bloody attacks in 2008, which had 166 deaths in the city of Bombay.

Afghanistan: "we must speak of the troops"

TESTIMONY E1 – Jean-Louis Michaud, chief warrant officer, has hit a mine in the valley of Kapisa.

While five French soldiers died Wednesday in the suicide bombing of Taliban, Jean-Louis Michaud, chief warrant officer, gives his testimony to Europe 1. The sniper and rescuer of 28 years hit a mine on April 11, in the valley of Kapisa, Afghanistan.

"I lost a foot"

Since then, Jean-Louis Michaud is in the hospital. Nicolas Sarkozy will visit her Thursday: "It's his job," said the French soldier.

Chief Warrant Officer clearly remembers the day when he lost "a bit of leg." "I stepped on a mine", "I fell on the right side," said he to Europe 1. "I'm pretty self-rescued," he adds. One rescuer group of soldiers, it is forbidden to pass out, for "survival instinct" and made his own tourniquet around his chest.

"We must talk about the troops" Then there's the hospital at the beginning, the euphoria caused by drugs. Then, "a complicated acceptance phase": "I was in my room, I cried, I looked at the photos of my children, I thought, 'I can do anything with them". Then he "learned to live as disabled."

Jean-Louis Michaud, "we must speak of the troops" French commitment in Afghanistan. He told Europe 1 being "saddened" to see "the French population was not worried about" the fate of his soldiers.

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