Disabled woman to go on television

PARIS - A woman with Down's Syndrome will realize her dream by presenting a prime-time weather bulletin on French television next week, an advocacy group for the disabled said on Wednesday.

Melanie Segard, 21, a French citizen, will begin training for the broadcast on Tuesday at the studios of public television station France 2, UNAPEI said in the statement.

Segard has scored more than 200,000 "likes" on Facebook in less than two weeks since the association launched a public awareness campaign for Down's Syndrome titled "Melanie Can Do It".