1.   A strike by French transport workers is spreading, as other public-sector workers take up the protest against planned cuts in pension and welfare spending.

2.   After Hezbollah and Amal, another Shiite guerrilla group, transferred the remains to the Lebanese army, they were flown to Israel on a French military transport plane.

3.   French maritime transport has been suspended too, leaving only Algerian ships and planes to carry passengers and goods.

4.   Jean-Claude Gayssot, the French transport minister, also said the measures did not necessarily imply the end of supersonic travel.

5.   On Tuesday night, the French transport minister, Jean-Claude Gayssot, said he had asked the civil aviation authority to cancel all Concorde flights Wednesday.

6.   Eric Douet, a father of four, was the latest victim of violence against French transport workers and the first in recent years to die.

7.   French transport experts hurried to Switzerland, hoping to learn lessons in advance of the planned reopening of the Mont Blanc Tunnel.

8.   French public transport officials will attend a one-day conference in Athens next week to discuss French experience in public transport.

9.   It was followed moments later by a French transport carrying equipment to help make the airport fully operational.

10.   Moments later, a French transport landed with equipment to help make the airport fully operational.