French President Nicolas Sarkozy flew into Kabul Wednesday and met survivors of an ambush that killed 10 French troops in the deadliest attack on international forces in post-Taliban Afghanistan. Sarkozy touched down at Kabul airport with his Defence Minister Herve Morin and Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner and immediately took a helicopter to Camp Warehouse, the base for French troops on the outskirts of the city.

Actors Ben Kingsley, George Clooney, Peter O'Toole, directors Ethan and Joel Coen, and more star power than ever will be on hand for the upcoming 33rd Toronto International Film Festival, organizers announced Tuesday. The festival, which runs from September 4-13, will showcase 249 feature films and 63 shorts from 64 countries this year, including 116 world premieres.

Basketball superstar Yao Ming on Wednesday urged China's hurdling hero Liu Xiang to put his Olympic nightmare behind him and to strive for greater success in the future. Chinese sports fans have been in mourning since the nation's 110-metre hurdling hero Liu hobbled away from his Olympic heat with a foot injury earlier this week.

French President Nicolas Sarkozy flew into Kabul Wednesday and met survivors of an ambush that killed 10 French troops in the deadliest attack on international forces in post-Taliban Afghanistan. Sarkozy touched down at Kabul airport with his Defence Minister Herve Morin and Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner and immediately took a helicopter to Camp Warehouse, the base for French troops on the outskirts of the city.

Tech-savvy South Korea now has 45 million mobile phones, equivalent to 91 percent of the total population, the Korea Communications Commission said Wednesday. The data means each of the country's 15.8 million households has almost three mobiles on average, it said.