France adopts pension reform bill

France's National Assembly has voted to raise pension age by two years after weeks of industrial action across the country.
The bill will now face legal challenges before President Nicolas Sarkozy can sign it off next month.
While the protest movement has lost steam, a new day of action has been declared for Thursday.
Aviation officials predict half of flights at Paris Orly airport will be cancelled and 30% at other airports.
Union leaders say they will also pursue the protest in other ways.
Sarkozy is hoping that Wednesday's vote will extinguish any further appetite for confrontation, the BBC's Christian Fraser reports from Paris.
It is expected that he will be in a position to sign off the bill, which raises the minimum retirement age from 60 to 62, by the middle of November.
Opinion polls suggest that Sarkozy's approval ratings have plummeted to record lows of below 30%, 18 months before the next presidential election.