A third British pensioner has died from Legionnaires’ disease while on holiday in Spain, officials say.

Doctors in Spain have carried out the world’s first double leg transplant, giving new limbs to a patient who lost both at mid-thigh in an accident.

A VALENCIA subway train was travelling at twice the normal speed when it derailed, killing 41 people, a Spanish government official said today.

A subway train derailed in the eastern Spanish city of Valencia today, killing at least 34 people, a regional government spokesman said.

Eighteen people gathered in a mountain hostel in eastern Spain for a birthday party died in their sleep from an apparent gas leak, officials said today.