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French and Brazilian search teams have found no debris confirmed to have come from the Airbus A330 that vanished over the Atlantic, officials said today.

The Brazilian air force on Thursday recovered the first piece of floating debris from the Air France jet, but many questions remained.

Vessels were steaming on Wednesday towards a field of debris in the Atlantic Ocean related to the crash of Air France flight 447 off of Brazil.

An Air France plane with 228 people on board was presumed to have crashed into the Atlantic Ocean on Monday after hitting heavy turbulence during a flight from Rio de Janeiro to Paris.

Rafael Nadal broke the French Open men's record for consecutive wins when he beat Marcos Daniel of Brazil 7-5, 6-4, 6-3 Monday in the first round.

Predictions have the major emerging markets—Brazil, Russia, India and China, a.k.a. the BRICs—overtaking the combined GDP of the G7 nations by 2027, nearly a decade sooner than the forecast in a landmark study a few years back.

A Brazilian model whose feet and hands were amputated following a drug-resistant infection died early today, health officials said.