Radiation link in flight attendant's breast cancer, French court finds

• 5 hours agoHugh SchofieldParis correspondentGetty ImagesA French court has for the first time recognised cosmic radiation as a factor in the breast cancer of a long-serving flight attendant.
• Sophie Lainault, a 59 year-old former stewardess on Air France, sought to have her cancer recognised as an occupational disease, brought on by conditions at work.
• This has now been confirmed in a landmark court ruling in the southwestern town of Bayonne, which said that cosmic radiation was one of three carcinogenic hazards arising from her profession.