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__Article 1- Air France Posts Profit as Savings, Economy Outwiegh Fuel Effect__ Air France- KLM Group posted a first annual profit in three years as cost cuts and increased demand for travel outweighed higher fuel expenses and disruption from Arab unrest and the Japanese earthquake. Europe's largest airline had an operating profit of 122 million euros ($174 million) in the 12 months ended March 31, compared with a 1.29 billion euro year earlier loss, Chief Executive Officer Pierre Henri Gourgeon said today in Paris. Traffic at Paris-based Air France- KLM grew 1.1 percent in the year, led by a 4 percent jump on Asian routes, as rebounding economies spurred bookings and lifted revenue 12 percent to 23.62 billion euros. Arab unrest held back a growth from the third quarter, compounded by the March 11 quake and tsunami in Japan.

__Article 2- Wife of French Present Pregnant With Second Child__ The president father might have spilled the beans when annoucing the to press that his daugher in law in pregnant. "The two do not want to know the gender in advance, but I'm sure it will be a girl and as beautiful as Carla" Pal Sarkozy told the newspaper. Mostly the risk of being pregnant over 40 is realted to underlying disease. Dispite all of the risks of having a baby of forty, the doctors say the baby should be fine. "Overall at fourty three are excellent," said Moritz. " There is no cutoff for pregnacy. Carla will do fine assuming there is only one"

__Article 3- France's BEA Pushed to Release Information Early, Echos Report__ France's air safety investigator, the BEA, is under pressure from the government to quickly release a report on causes of the Air France crash in June 2009, Les Echos reported, without saying how it get information. Airbus SAS, the aircraft's manufacturer, wants to reassure potential buyers ahead ofthe Paris Air Show next month, the newspaper said. Investigators of the Air France Flight 477 crash said May 16 the successfully recovered the contents of the back boxes. The plane plunged into the Atlantic en route from Rio de Janeiro to Paris, killing all 228 poeple onboard.

__Aritcle 4- Develop Wind Farms in France__ Areva SA and Vinic DG will form partnership to develop offshore wind power projects in France, where the government wants developments of 6,000 megawatts of generating capacity by 2020. The partnership will be for three wind farms at Dieppe- Le Treport, Courseulles-sur-Mer, and Fecamp, according to a joint statement. France is planning to seek bids 3,000 megawatts of offshore wind farms that could cost about $10 billion euros ($14.3 billion) to develop. The owner of France's natural gas network, was already planning to build one of the three projects, at 1.8 billion euro wind park off the northern France.

__Article 5- Delta and Air France to cut Europe Flights__ Delta Air lines, Air France, and Alitalia will sharply reduce flights across the Atlantic starting next fall, after airlines added too much flying on those routes just as fuel prices shot up. The change will leave travelers between the U.S. and Europe with fewr choices Delta and its partners said they will cut flying capacity by seven percent to nine percent starting this fall. The reduction means that the amount of flying they do will drop about 15 percentage points compared to the growth they had planned previously.