A Slovak military plane carrying troops back from Kosovo crashed into a mountainside in north-eastern Hungary, killing at least 42 people, officials said today.

TWENTY-TWO Romanians were injured, two seriously, when a bus heading for Vienna overturned in western Hungary yesterday.

At least 31 people were killed today when a double-decker bus carrying German tourists was hit by a train at a crossing near the Hungarian resort of Lake Balaton.

Floods spread through eastern Germany today, adding to the misery of tens of thousands of people forced from their homes as the country faced its biggest relief effort since the Second World War.