Private detectives hired by Madeleine McCann’s parents want to trace a “Victoria Beckham lookalike” with an Australian or New Zealand accent, it was reported today.

More than 100 protesters demonstrated outside an Egyptian port today demanding to know the fate of family and friends on board the ferry which sank in the Red Sea.

SPANIARDS lit candles, laid flowers and observed a long silence yesterday to mark the first anniversary of the country's worst terror attack, when 10 bombs ripped through commuter trains, killing 191 and wounding more than 1,500.

A builder may have survived for nine days under a mudslide triggered by the El Salvador earthquake.

Bulldozers have gone in after sniffer dogs and heartbeat detectors failed in a final attempt to locate more survivors of the El Salvador earthquake.

The death toll in the El Salvador earthquake has risen to 600.