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Paris  – Renault has given the Laguna a makeover for the 2010 model year with both the sedan and estate Grandtour coming standard with extras such as air conditioning, leather steering wheel, onboard computer and a 3-D sound system.

Rio de Janeiro – Recovery teams pulled an additional 17 bodies out of the Atlantic Ocean off Brazil Tuesday, to bring the total number of bodies retrieved after last week’s Air France plane crash to 41.

Paris/Sao Paulo  – A union representing some Air France personnel has urged the carrier’s pilots not to fly Airbus planes with airspeed measuring instruments used on the A330-200 that crashed into the Atlantic, the daily Le Figaro reported Tuesday.

Luxembourg  – European Union finance ministers were Tuesday debating controversial plans by Brussels for common supervision of the bloc’s financial system amid opposition from Britain and central European countries with a high concentration of foreign-owned banks.

Paris  – French entrepreneur Serge Dassault, a close friend of President Nicolas Sarkozy, has been stripped of his mayor’s post in Corbeil-Essonnes, near Paris, for bribing voters, French media reported Tuesday.

Sao Paulo  – Search teams on Sunday recovered the bodies of 17 people from the Air France plane that plunged into the Atlantic Ocean with 228 people on board on June 1, a Brazilian Air Force spokesman said late Sunday in the northeastern city of Recife.

Berlin  – Two bodies were recovered Saturday from an Air France jetliner that disappeared over the Atlantic with 228 people on board five days earlier.

Sao Paulo/Paris – Despite intensive search, Brazil’s Air Force and Navy have found no trace of the 228 people on board the Air France carrier that vanished in a mysterious plunge into a rough and dangerous section of the Atlantic Ocean three days ago.

Sao Paulo  – The Brazilian government late Tuesday declared three days of mourning after the crash of an Air France plane with 228 people on board, hours after it confirmed debris had been found from the wreckage in some of the Atlantic’s deepest waters.

Rio de Janeiro/Paris  – Search efforts were renewed early Tuesday as 228 people were feared dead in the crash of an Air France jet in the Atlantic Ocean en route from Rio de Janeiro to Paris.