The decision by French President Emmanuel Macron to call a snap election after losing to the far right in a vote for European lawmakers roiled markets and the euro Monday.

Big gains for the far right in the French election could force Macron to govern with a hostile parliament, making it harder for his centrist administration to pursue its policy agenda and raising doubts about its ability to put government finances on a more sustainable footing.

A car dealer from Enid who grew up on a farm and had no formal training saw an airplane in Oklahoma City in 1910, recognized it as the transportation of the future and returned home, where he built one of his own. That car dealer was Clyde V. Cessna, whose name became synonymous with monoplanes and who later started the Cessna Aircraft Co. A speaker at a 1953 testimonial banquet in Wichita related that Cessna, who had been an Overland automobile dealer in Enid for several years, watched two Frenchmen...

German distributor-producer SquareOne Entertainment, part of rising European film studio Vuelta Group, has acquired German film and TV production, distribution and licensing company Telepool, which is owned by Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith’s Westbrook. Vuelta launched last year with the high profile acquisitions of France’s Playtime, SquareOne and Scandinavia’s Scanbox.

The police response to Spain’s campus protests has been relatively muted while more than 2,000 academics stand by their university students. Madrid, Spain – Huge Palestinian flags are hanging on campuses across Spain as thousands of students protest against Israel’s war in Gaza. Some classes have stopped this week as students demonstrate in Barcelona, Valencia, the Basque Country and Madrid.

May 8 (Reuters) - Donia Abu Talib took an historic step for Saudi women when she earned direct qualification for the taekwondo competition at the Paris Olympics and is determined to take another huge stride in France later this year. The 27-year-old punched her ticket to the Games at the Asian qualifiers in March and her achievement was celebrated by Prince Abdulaziz bin Turki Al Faisal, the minister of sport and head of the Saudi Olympic Committee. Saudi officialdom was not always so enamoured of women's sport and it took...