SUMMARY

• Chirac renews French commitment to Africa
• Laure Manaudou sets two world swimming records
• Chinese Premier's visit strengthens ties
• Anti-terrorism laws strengthened
• 10th anniversary of Dayton accords marked in Paris
• Microsoft opens French research lab
• Phillips Collection on display in Paris
• American plays Napoleon in record Austerlitz re-enactment
• Profil - Simone Veil: a French Icon
• First partial face transplant
• Pierre Auger observatory,world's largest,unveils first findings
• La Poste to become bank
• Celebrating 100 years of secularism
• French students mix work and studies
• Contemporary Iraqi art on exhibit in Paris
• Renovated Petit Palais reopens to public
• Reconstructing La Fayette's frigate in Rochefort
• Gauguin and Impressionism in Texas
• Why style, French contemporary art in New York