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  IMAGE SOURCE, REUTERS Image caption, The volcano had gone quiet for more than 10 days A volcano eruption on the Spanish island of La Palma has officially been declared over, after three months of spewing ash and hot molten rock. Since erupting on 19 September, the Cumbre Vieja volcano destroyed more than 3,000 properties and hundreds of acres of farmland on the Canary Island. More than 7,000 people were forced to leave their homes as lava closed in. But after 10 days of calmer activity, authorities decided the volcano was not going to flare up again. "What I want to say today can be said with just four words: The eruption is over," said Canary Islands regional security chief Julio Perez. There had been no earth tremors since 13 December - the longest period without any activity since the volcano began. But Mr Perez said experts wanted to be sure the eruption had stopped before declaring it was over on Christmas Day. No injuries or deaths have been linked to the eruption on ...

  ISLAMABAD -- The body of a Pakistani-American woman, who investigators believe was killed by her former husband over a property dispute, was brought to the city of Rawalpindi for further   investigation , police said Sunday. Wajiha Swati, a U.S. citizen of Pakistani origin, had been missing since she arrived in Pakistan in mid-October to settle issues with her ex-husband, Rizwan Habib. Habib was arrested on suspicion of murder last week, said Sajid Kiyani, Rawalpindi's police chief. He said Habib confessed Saturday to killing Swati after four days of interrogation, and that he killed her the day she arrived in the city. Swati's body was found in the district of Lakki Marwat in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, police said. “Police have exhumed the body from a house in Lakki Marwat's Peezo area, where the suspect led the police after confessing (to) the murder," Kiyani said. Habib's initial court appearance was set for Monday. He was unable to be reached in custody and...