Western Intervention in Syria 'Increasingly Likely'

In today's international press review, we focus on the war in Syria. A British think tank believes a Western intervention is "increasingly likely". We also talk about the aftermaths of the Aurora massacre, and the phone-hacking scandal in the UK.

IN THE PAPERS

SYRIA
The Guardian: “Syria crisis: Western troops 'increasingly likely' to intervene”
Huffington Post: Golan Heights Provides Glimpse Of Syrian Conflict

AURORA MASSACRE
Washington Post : Colorado shooting suspect allegedly planned attack while surrounded by brain experts

PHONE HACKING SCANDAL
The Independent: Rupert Murdoch’s finest brought to trial
Coulson trial threatens years of bad headlines for Cameron
The Guardian: Phone hacking: Cameron should be charged with sheer arrogance

OLYMPICS

Daily Mail: Teenage weightlifter representing Britain at the Olympics targeted by internet trolls who said she looked like a 'bloke' and a ‘lesbian’

10/02/2010 - FRENCH PRESS REVIEW

Portrait of Sarkozy painted by his father could sell for €14,000

Is Pal Sarkozy capitalising on his son’s fame?! The father of the French President has painted his son and his daughter-in-law, Carla Bruni and their paintings are included in an exhibition of the First Father’s work in his home city of Budapest.

09/02/2010 - INTERNATIONAL PRESS REVIEW

“France’s greatest thinker fooled by Kant hoax”

The Times’ Paris correspondent Charles Bremner is in gleeful mood this morning recounting the woes of famous French philosopher Bernard-Herni Lévy. “BHL” as he is known is “the laughing stock of the Left Bank” having referenced a philosopher who does not exist in his latest book.

09/02/2010 - FRENCH PRESS REVIEW

French debate on national identity was a “fiasco”

Libération’s editorial this morning is entitled “rabbit fart” – not exactly a flattering summing up of Immigration Minister Eric Besson’s three-month debate on French national identity. Le Figaro is also critical saying that the Government’s proposals at the conclusion of the national identity debate “fall far short of expectations”.

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