A FORMER councillor from Spain`s ruling Socialist Party was shot dead in the northern Basque region today, the regional government said, two days before the country holds general elections
A MAN was handed three life sentences by a judge in Manchester, north-west England today for murdering his former girlfriend and her two teenage children with a hammer
BRITAIN has accused Burma`s military regime of paying only lip service to international calls for democratic reforms, as the UN special envoy embarked on a fresh round of talks there
A parked car sits in the street in the aftermath of flooding in Morpeth, north-eastern England / AFP
