Live from the newsroom, Elena Casas Montanez provides an overview of the world's newspaper headlines, from Monday to Friday at 9.10 am (and at 6.20 am and 7.10 am for France's newspapers).
Sarkozy jokingly calls journalists "paedophiles": controversial or not?
FRENCH PAPERS, Wednesday, 24.11.2010: The Pope holds up a condom instead of the "Bread of Christ" on the front page of the satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo this morning. To complete the array of scandalous front pages, Sarkozy's off the record comment to journalists, "See you tomorrow, paedophile friends!" appears out of context on the front page of Libération.
Violence against African migrants this week in Tel Aviv has sparked angry debate in Israel. Haaretz is accusing members of Benjamin Netanyahu's Likud party of "incitement". That - and the latest on the Facebook IPO fiasco - is the focus for this look at the world's papers this Friday 25th May, 2012.
The French press looks at the latest bad news for the economy. Air France is restructuring and layoffs are certain. Libération asks: what can the new left-wing government do? This as Le Parisien-Aujourd'hui-en-France reports on union anger that a former Air France CEO could, despite the economic crisis, get a "jackpot" bonus. That's the focus for this Friday, 25th May 2012.
Today we focus on the Egyptian elections - will the military be the real winners? We're also looking at Quebec's student protests, and the race to save this year's Parmesan.
Has Obama's policy in Afghanistan been a disaster, why is Syria's conflict tipping over into Lebanon, and who's going to win the Egyptian election? It's all in the international press review.