SPAIN: A priest says he has given up hope that local authorities in his parish of Xestoso in the northwest of the country will fix the potholes in the roads so he has asked for divine intervention.

The people of the United States will vote for their next president today, but that is just the start of a complex procedure which ends with the official swearing-in ceremony in January.

Swarms of violent thunderstorms and tornados crashed through the US Midwest, killing at least 32 people in the states of Kansas, Missouri and Tennessee.