Paris - A French web surfer who advised a young girl on the internet how to commit suicide has been sentenced to one year in prison, the daily Le Parisien reported on Tuesday.

The 23-year-old resident of the eastern region of Haute-Savoie, identified only as Joel A., was convicted of advising 16-year-old Florence, who lived in western France, how to use morphine to take her own life.

Florence's body was found on September 5, 2005, in a forest near her home in Brittany. Her parents then examined her computer and discovered traces of her chat room exchanges with Joel.

Paris/Madrid - French police have arrested the suspected new head of the military wing of the Basque terrorist organization ETA only three weeks after capturing his predecessor, the French and Spanish interior ministries announced on Monday.

Aitzol Irionda Yarza, also known as Gurbita or Asier, and two alleged accomplices were taken into custody in the Pyrenean town of Bagneres-de-Bigorre, some 50 kilometres from Cautarets, where French police arrested ETA chief Mikel Garikoitz Aspiazu, alias Txeroki, on November 17.

Bogota  - A former FARC rebel's planned departure from Colombia to live in asylum in France was stopped at the last moment on Monday after the public prosecutor requested a delay.

Wilson Bueno Largo, alias Isaza, had fled a FARC camp in Colombia in October along with a hostage and was to fly to France with high- profile former hostage Ingrid Bentancourt on Monday.

But prosecutor Mario Iguaran asked for the stay in order to determine whether Isaza was guilty of kidnapping and to wait for a justice decision on his pardoning.

London  - British Prime Minister Gordon Brown held a meeting on further measures to stimulate the sluggish world economy with French President Nicolas Sarkozy and European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso in London Monday.

The so-called European Union (EU) "mini summit" followed criticism in London and Paris of the Germany's reluctance to follow up a recent massive economic bail-out package with tax-cutting measures.

But speaking before the meeting, which was to be joined by major British business leaders, Brown dismissed media reports that he had "snubbed" German Chancellor Angela Merkel by not including her in the talks.

Paris - French President Nicolas Sarkozy on Monday joined the growing international chorus of voices urging Zimbabwe's controversial president, Robert Mugabe, to leave office.

"The president of Zimbabwe, Robert Mugabe, must go," Sarkozy said during a speech commemorating the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which is on Wednesday.