A US town has banned texting while walking. Should we follow suit, wonders Jonathan deBurca Butler

Seven American undertakers linked to a scheme to plunder corpses and sell the body parts for transplants pleaded guilty to undisclosed charges and have agreed to co-operate with investigators.

Four men have been charged with running a bodysnatching ring that allegedly cut the bones of BBC broadcaster Alistair Cooke from his corpse and sold them for transplants in a plot akin to “a cheap horror movie”, US authorities said today.

Celia Cruz, the Cuban-born singer who went from Havana nightclubs to become the “queen of salsa”, has died.