The jury praised a series of pictures shot by 35-year-old Carl for AFP. They included a series of pictures of the student riots in London, another shows a demonstrator calling for the release of Chinese artist Ai Weiwei and another is of a policeman caught in the act of moving a cat away from the doorstep of 10 Downing Street with his boot.

AFP is launching its iPad application in English at the annual conference of the Online News Association; a new offering, free of charge, providing access to a selection of fast, accurate news from around the world.

Global news agency AFP and Hong Kong’s French Chamber of Commerce have launched a mobile site connecting executives to the chamber’s news, services, and AFP’s economic coverage.

AFP EXTENDS HD VIDEO PRODUCTION - ALREADY AVAILABLE IN ENGLISH, FRENCH AND GERMAN - TO SPANISH

THE ARAB SPRING WAS THE MAIN THEME OF THE 18TH EDITION OF THE BAYEUX-CALVADOS WAR CORRESPONDENTS AWARD HELD FROM OCTOBER 3-9,<br>AND AFP PHOTOGRAPHER PEDRO PARDO TAKES THE SECOND PLACE IN THE PHOTO CATEGORY

Agence France-Presse was the first agency to have a picture of Moamer Kadhafi’s body after he was captured and killed in Sirte on Thursday.

WASHINGTON, Oct 21, 2011 (AFP) - A computer security firm warned on Friday that cybercriminals were attempting to exploit Agence France-Presse photos of slain Libyan dictator Moamer Kadhafi in an email scam.

THE AFP FOUNDATION IS TO GIVE 25 LAPTOP COMPUTERS TO JOURNALISTS FACING PARTICULAR HARDSHIP IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES OR WORKING IN EXILE.

Agence France-Presse Thursday teamed up with Pakistan's largest private news agency to launch the first international Urdu-language news service. The partnership between AFP and the Online International News Network will provide an average of 50 news, feature, sport and business stories per day from AFP's global output to Urdu clients in India, Pakistan and elsewhere.

DAVID MILLIKIN, CHIEF NEWS EDITOR FOR NORTH AMERICA, HAS BEEN APPOINTED DIRECTOR FOR NORTH AMERICA FROM APRIL 1.