News In Brief

Paris shootings suspect captured
Afp, Paris

France yesterday said the suspect arrested over this week's shootings in Paris is a man previously jailed for his role in a "Bonnie-and-Clyde" style multiple murder that gripped the country 20 years ago.
Abdelhakim Dekhar was arrested on Wednesday after a major manhunt following a shooting at the left-wing newspaper Liberation and at the headquarters of the Societe Generale bank. His DNA matched samples from the scenes of the attacks, officials said.

Murdoch seals divorce from third wife
Afp, New York City

Media mogul Rupert Murdoch and his estranged third wife Wendi Deng have agreed on an "amicable" divorce settlement, the couple announced in New York Wednesday.
Murdoch, 82, and Deng, 44, who were married in 1999,  issued the statement after attending a brief hearing before New York judge Ellen Gesmer.

3 more Greenpeace activists freed
Afp, Saint Petersburg

Russia yesterday released on bail three Greenpeace activists, including a photojournalist, bringing to four the number freed after two months in prison over an Arctic protest.
Photographer Denis Sinyakov, Greenpeace press secretary Andrei Allakhverdov and the ship's doctor Yekaterina Zaspa all left detention after being granted bail by Saint Petersburg courts, the group said.

Japan eruption creates new islet
Afp, Tokyo

A dramatic volcanic eruption in the Pacific Ocean has created a tiny new islet in Japan's territorial waters, officials said yesterday, the first time in decades the nation has seen the phenomenon.
Video footage showed plumes of smoke and ash billowing from the 200-metre island, and Japan's coastguard said it was warning vessels to use caution in the area until the eruption cools off.