World Scene: France

2-day-old infant kidnapped

A prosecutor says authorities have mobilized 150 police and issued an urgent appeal for help to track down a 2-day-old boy believed kidnapped from a maternity clinic in southwest France.

Prosecutor Erick Maurel says police were chasing leads from witnesses who said they saw a tall and "corpulent" woman, about 40 and wearing a black overcoat, leave the clinic in the town of Orthez with the baby in her arms.