Academic convicted for 1980 Paris synagogue bombing.

A Lebanese-Canadian university professor, Hassan Diab, has been convicted by a court in Paris of carrying out the deadly bombing of a Paris synagogue in 1980. Four people were killed and 38 others wounded in the attack. Diab, who teaches sociology in Ottawa, refused to attend the trial, but the judges gave him a life sentence. This marks the end of a decades-long investigation that became a byword for protracted judicial confusion.