In order to renew the management at SID, Antoine Ludier, CFO of AFP, will temporarily be assuming the direction at SID as from January 16th, since Mr Cremer presented his resignation. AFP is proud of the results of its subsidiary SID, leader in sport news for the German market. SID generated an astonishing turnover of 5,3 M€ in 2011. The editorial teams at AFP and SID will be covering together the London Olympics and the Euro 2012, in order to respond better to our international client's needs.

The international news agency AFP and leisure news service relaxnews joined forces Monday to launch the first global newswire devoted to leisure and lifestyle coverage at the Fondation Cartier in Paris.

Agence France-Presse and French agency relaxnews have launched a global leisure newswire in Asia that they hope will become the world's leading source for lifestyle news. Aimed at the media, industry brands, PR agencies and telecommunications companies, the service will offer stories and multimedia reports on tourism, home life, entertainment, health and well-being.

Up to the Minute Video News and Headlines From Global News Leaders Will Be Pushed to Viewers’ Screen of Choice – Smartphone or Desktop

AFP PHOTOGRAPHER JOHN MACDOUGALL WINS GERMANY'S RENOWNED RUECKBLENDE (FLASHBACK) PRIZE

The awards, co-organised by Amnesty International, the Hong Kong Foreign Correspondents' Club and the Hong Kong Journalists Association, recognise news stories, features, photos, broadcast reports and online articles that highlight human rights -- or the lack of them -- across the Asia Pacific region during 2008, a year when there was the Olympic Games in Beijing, a major cyclone in Myanmar and a quake in China, unrest in Pakistan and Afghanistan, and a vast range of other issues, from AIDS to migrant workers to police brutality.

AFP and Getty Images have agreed a worldwide video partnership, effective from the beginning of March, which will allow both agencies to market their video content in English.

FROM FEBRUARY 6TH TO THE 23RD, AFPTV WILL OFFER ITS WORLDWIDE CLIENTS BASE AN EXCEPTIONAL, 100 %HD 16/9, COVERAGE OF THE RIO CARNIVAL WONDERS.

Agence France-Presse on Monday named Philippe Massonnet as its new global news director with a mission to oversee the international news agency's evolution to a fully integrated multimedia operation. Massonnet, a former Beijing bureau chief and China specialist, takes over the post from Denis Hiault at the head of a revamped news management team. A new post of deputy global news director will be filled by Juliette Hollier-Larousse, AFP's current international multimedia editor.

Agence France-Presse has decided to support <a rel="external" href="http://oceans.taraexpeditions.org/?id_page=1"> Tara Oceans</a> in an unprecedented media partnership after an approach by the international scientific expedition.