Two boys of Chinese origin, aged three and five, have died in an apartment fire in Zaragoza in eastern Spain, Spanish media reported.
The children´s grandmother and father were injured in the blaze while their mother escaped unharmed, public radio RNE reported citing local officials.
Investigators are trying to determine what caused the fire to break out [...]
France has declared a national disaster after violent storms battered parts of the country leaving death and destruction in their wake.
Prime Minister Francois Fillon said the move would release funds to help communities rebuild.
French President Nicolas Sarkozy has arrived at the storm-battered Atlantic coast, where at least 47 people died.
As the storm swept north-eastwards across [...]
Two teenagers who confessed to killing an East Riding grandfather in Tenerife could be released in five years.
The news emerged as Peter Cockshutt´s body was finally flown home to East Yorkshire yesterday, to the relief of his wife and five children.
Mr Cockshutt, of Brandesburton, near Hornsea, was stabbed to death in an apparent bungled burglary [...]
Two people died after jumping out of the windows of the Hotel Normandía in the tiny Pyrenean state of Andorra this morning after a fire broke out there in the early hours.
According to local media reports, the fire started in the hotel´s reception and quickly spread to other parts of the hotel in the capital, [...]
DERMOT McArdle has been given a ultimatum by Spanish authorities to hand himself in by next Thursday March 4th.
The Dundalk man who was convicted of the manslaughter of his wife Kelly Ann Corcoran in Marbella 10 years ago, last week lodged an appeal against a ruling by a Spanish judge that he should now serve [...]
A British couple was killed in the collapse of a country house, apparently caused by heavy rains, in southern Spain, local officials said Tuesday. The man and woman, aged 64 and 63 respectively, were visiting another British couple when the room they were in collapsed in Rubite near Granada on Monday, emergency services said.
The owner [...]
Six people were killed and 10 injured, including one seriously, when a fire broke out at a retirement home in Spain’s southern city of Seville.
The fire broke out around midnight on Monday in a third-storey apartment and spread throughout the building before being put out by firefighters.
Three women and two men were among the dead, [...]
Vanessa Addison, 34, and her Spanish climbing companion, a man of 53, were killed instantly when they were engulfed by fast sliding snow in the Val de Boi valley, in the province of Lérida, on Friday morning.
They were on an organised climb with a group from the Spanish Mountain Sports Federation.
Several of the other climbers [...]