World News Update, what you need to know

World News Update, what you need to know

Police in Indonesia say demonstrations are likely to occur in front of the Australian embassy in Jakarta today, amid ongoing fallout over the phone-tapping controversy.

ELSEWHERE:

MOSCOW - Russian courts have granted bail to the American captain and four others arrested on a Greenpeace ship over a protest against oil drilling in the Arctic. An Australian remains in prison.

NEW YORK - Media baron Rupert Murdoch and his wife Wendi Deng have reached a divorce settlement.

PARIS - Paris has retained its place as the best city in the world for students, with Sydney and Melbourne coming in fourth and fifth in a survey.

CAIRO - A suicide bomber has rammed his explosive-laden car into one of two buses carrying off-duty soldiers in Egypt's turbulent region of northern Sinai, killing 11 and wounding 37.

BONNE TERRE, Missouri - Joseph Paul Franklin, a white supremacist who targeted blacks and Jews in a cross-country killing spree from 1977 to 1980, has been put to death in Missouri, the state's first execution in nearly three years.

TONGAAT - South African emergency workers have called off a search for survivors under a collapsed half-built mall near Durban as police open a culpable homicide investigation.

JOHANNESBURG - South African Paralympic champion Oscar Pistorius has been formally charged with two additional gun-related offences, prosecutors say.


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