Renault-Nissan today signed a preliminary agreement with the Moroccan government to build a manufacturing complex in northern Morocco with a capacity of 400,000 cars a year.

Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero today said that his government was committed to building a high-speed train line to North Africa in a tunnel under the Strait of Gibraltar.

Heavy floods that swept through parts of central Morocco have killed 15 people and left hundreds of families homeless.