The black boxes of the Air France flight that crashed over two weeks ago have been located according to the website of French newspaper Le Monde. The French submarine sent to recover the black boxes has picked up their signal which is reportedly very weak. There is very little news on this story for now.

Elewhere, the Guardian leads with a photo of Neda, the Iranian woman shot by authorities in Teheran on Saturday. A witness sent a video of the dying woman to a friend in the Netherlands who was then able to post it to YouTube and Facebook. “Within hours, it had become one of the most portent threats faced by the Iranian regime in 30 years,” says The Guardian. It is a shocking video showing the woman bleeding heavily from the chest and nose as a doctor fails to resuscitate her. Authorities would not allow her family to hold an Islamic funeral for fear of the consequences. They only released her body on condition that she would be buried quickly and discreetly. The fear is that she could become a martyr, says the Guardian. The Shia faith holds mourning ceremonies on the third, seventh and 40th days after a death and mosques across the city have been warned not to hold services in her memory.

The contrast with the front page of today’s edition of Ettela'at, an Iranian pro-regime newspaper, could not be more striking. There is no coverage whatever of Neda, needless to say. The main headline focuses on the Foreign Minister’s criticism of the West for meddling in Iran’s internal affairs. Britain is in the firing line. So too is France. The Foreign Minister Mouttaki said that France is a big nation but “it is unfortunately being governed by a group of political dwarfs who have put the achievements of the country’s revolution on sale.” Further down on the front page, there is an article on Iranian monuments in Tabriz being registered on the national heritage list – a hardly the most prominent story in the country at the moment.

To other matters in the press and the New York Times journalist, David Rohde, who was released from Taliban captivity after seven months. He was held in the Afghanistan-Pakistan border region. The Editor and Publisher which is a magazine that analyses the media in the US says this was the most amazing press blackout on a major event that it has ever seen. The competing ethics of this is discussed. Is there an ethical obligation to publish news on the kidnapping for the benefit of other journalists who may be at risk in the region? What about the duty owed to the public to provide them with information on something that is clearly newsworthy? However the regard for the safety of the journalist took precedence in this situation.

The Israeli newspaper Haaretz is reporting on Prime Minister Netanyahu’s first EU trip which starts today. He’s expected in Paris tomorrow, the paper says, where Nicolas Sarkozy will push for an international peace process. Sarkozy believes that only an international conference will persuade Mahoud Abbas to meet Netanyahu and jump start negotiations. The US is opposed - they want to see how things go on the ground. Moscow is opposed as it is organising a conference of its own later this year…France hopes that an Israeli green light will soften Washington’s opposition.

Netanyahu is due to meet Berlusconi in Rome today but the international press is more interested in the latest scandal surrounding his love life. The Financial Times says his allies don’t think this will cause his downfall. Papers in Italy yesterday published photos of Berlusconi’s bathroom taken by prostitutes. For the Times of London, Berlusconi’s Italy shows a strange type of feminism. While Italian men may do far less than their European counterparts around the house, the core of everyday decision making in Italy is done by women. From family businesses to fashion empires, women in Italy are as powerful and successful as anywhere. They just go about it differently. In private, in particular, the strong female certainly exists in Italy. While the sons swagger around in sharp suits, it is often the daughters and mothers who make the big decisions in small family firms for instance.