Forest fugitive

France's most wanted fugitive ­ who escaped from prison in a cardboard box and lived in the woods for ten weeks ­ has been caught, the interior minister announced on Friday night.
Jean-Pierre Treiber, 47, a former forest worker and game-keeper, is accused of the kidnapping and double murder of a young couple in 2004. He had been on the run since September 8, when he shut himself into a cardboard box he had made and jumped from a lorry after it drove out of prison in Auxerre, Burgundy. His ability to survive in the forest had captured the French imagination ­ turning him into an anti-hero for some ­ but had become a source of great embarrassment to the police.

Parlimentary bite

A prominent opposition lawmaker faces expulsion from Malaysia's Parliament after being convicted on Thursday of biting a policeman at a protest. A Kuala Lumpur magistrate's court sentenced Tian Chua, who is head of strategy for the Pakatan Rakyat opposition alliance, to six months' imprisonment and fined him 3,000 ringgit (880 dollars). Under Malaysian law, an MP will lose his or her seat if sentenced to more than one year in jail or a fine exceeding 2,000 ringgit. The policeman had testified that during a scuffle he punched Tian Chua, and that Chua bit him in retaliation.