AN ELDERLY man with Alzheimer’s disease suffered severe burns when he flooded his room in a hospital’s psychiatric unit with scalding water from a hot tap.

AN ELDERLY man with Alzheimer’s disease suffered severe burns when he flooded his room in a hospital’s psychiatric unit with scalding water from a hot tap.

Some 2,000 angry students massed on railway tracks in Paris today, stopping international train traffic in a new push to force a contested youth labour law off the books.