The 13 students killed in a bus crash in north-eastern Spain this weekend were all women from other countries, including seven from Italy, a Catalan regional government official said.

Three Irish college students have cheated death following a bus crash in Spain which claimed the lives of 13 foreign students.

WE are descended from Africans who first arrived in Europe about 45,000 years ago. The newcomers had to adapt to a colder climate and to prolonged winter darkness. It was thought that they lost their black skin, and several other characteristics, relatively quickly but a skeleton found in a Spanish cave has made scientists think again.

In La Liga’s latest example of club chiefs writing cheques their teams can’t cash, Barcelona announced last Monday that its socios would vote in the new year on whether to spend 300m “remodelling” their current stadium or at least 600m on a new ground elsewhere in the city.