Nepal: Japanese climber leads team to clean Everest

An ace Japanese climber and his team headed Friday for Mount Everest to clean up the world’s highest mountain and dig up bodies buried under ice.

Ken Noguchi’s team aims to bring down at least 3,300 pounds of oxygen bottles, tents, food cans, ropes and other trash left on the mountain by expeditions at the South Col, the last camp before the summit.

Noguchi, 28, of Tokyo said his teamalso would try to clear dead bodies frozen under the ice.

Since adventurers began trying to climb Everest in the early 1900s, nearly 180 people have died on its slopes.

Paris: Synagogue target of Molotov cocktails

Three people confessed to trying to throw Molotov cocktails at a synagogue, in southern France and five suspects were detained in a similar attack outside Paris, officials said Friday.

Meanwhile, a suspected homemade bomb was found at a Jewish cemetery in the eastern city of Strasbourg that was the target of an arson attempt earlier in the week, police said. It was safely removed.

Arsonists set fire to a prayer pavilion at the same cemetery Tuesday, causing its roof to collapse. It was just one of many attacks on Jewish targets in recent days that has coincided with heightened tensions in the Middle East.

The identities of the five detainees were not released.