A rain-soaked mountainside disintegrated in an unstoppable wall of mud today, burying hundreds of houses and a school in the eastern Philippines. Red Cross officials estimated 200 people were dead and 1,500 others missing.

A massive landslide rumbled down a mountainside on an eastern Philippine island today, burying hundreds of houses and a school packed with primary students. Red Cross officials estimated 200 people were dead and 1,500 others missing.

Blazing Bailey could tackle the Royal & SunAlliance Novices’ Hurdle at Cheltenham after maintaining his unbeaten record at Fontwell.

Blazing Bailey proved the class act as he earned a possible trip to the Cheltenham Festival when maintaining his unbeaten record at Fontwell.

A CHURCH curate has won permission to challenge the refusal of police to prosecute doctors who carried out a late abortion on a woman because she did not want a baby with a cleft lip and palate.

A legal challenge to abortion regulations in Northern Ireland is really a ‘‘radical’’ bid to have British law on termination rights extended to the province, a court heard today.