The Agence France-Presse board on Friday elected Pierre Louette to a second three-year term as chairman and chief executive of the international news agency.

TOKYO - Top Japanese fashion school Bunka Gakuen and Agence France-Presse on Tuesday launched a service providing global news and archive material to Japanese universities and higher learning institutions.

Agence France-Presse and its South Korean partner Thursday launched a website which seeks to become the leading news community site in one of the world's most wired nations.

Agence France-Presse and Indonesia's national news agency Antara signed an agreement Tuesday to launch multimedia services in the Indonesian language.

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

Christophe Vogt, 45, has been appointed deputy chief news editor. He joined AFP in 1995 as correspondent in Frankfurt where he covered the Bundesbank. As a reporter in Paris over the next decade, he covered economics, including notably the birth of the euro currency.

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.