The proposed takeover of online travel group lastminute.com marks another stage in a tumultuous roller-coaster ride for the company and its founders, Martha Lane Fox and Brent Hoberman.

Lastminute.com founder Martha Lane Fox was seriously injured in a road accident in Morocco, it emerged today.

A Moroccan court today sentenced four men to death for their involvement in a wave of near-simultaneous suicide bombings in May that killed 32 bystanders.

Heavy floods that swept through parts of central Morocco have killed 15 people and left hundreds of families homeless.