Disappointment: no French or European news!!

AFP (Agence France-Presse) has some of the best reporters around the world, reporting in English, not just French.

This app, like many news apps, has sections for world news, sports, etc. This includes separate sections for news from 4 major world regions: North America, Middle East, Africa, and Asia -- but not Europe!! European stories only run if theyre big enough globally to make it into the world news section (or the sports, business, etc sections).

You can choose from one of several languages (including English but not French).

This app is also very buggy and sometimes seems to hang when opening. (Try deleting and reinstalling when this happens). This makes sense since the last update (v. 1.3) was over 16 months ago -- before iOS 7 (and even iOS 6.1).

AFP should just clone the BBC app -- its got the best layout of any news app Ive used.

Im giving this app 2 stars, not 1 only because of the great content that is available when the app works.

AFP has some of the best reporters and editors in the world -- the iOS app developers have really let them down.

French engineers design Airbus planes and some of the most advanced nuclear reactors and high speed trains in the world. This app, however, feels more like those awful French cars from the early 1980s.

A._B. about AFP Mobile, v1.3.0