The distraught parents of Madeleine McCann lashed out today at a newspaper which printed claims their daughter was buried nearby before Portuguese police even had a chance to investigate.

Two Dutch nuns, wearing habits and riding bikes, chased a suspected thief through Amsterdam, police said today.

THE father of recovering heroin addict Derek Cooper, who was found dead in a toilet of a hostel above an Amsterdam Irish pub with morphine in his pocket and a syringe beside him, says there was blood on his clothes and all over the cubicle.