France's Macron appoints centre-right PM to widen appeal

New French President Emmanuel Macron named centre-right lawmaker Edouard Philippe as prime minister on Monday in a further effort to splinter the country's traditional parties and redraw the political map.Philippe, a little known 46-year-old MP and mayor of the northern port of Le Havre, comes from the moderate wing of the rightwing Republicans party and is seen as a pragmatist.France's fervently pro-European new president -- who travelled to Berlin later to meet German Chancellor Angela Merkel