CELEBRATING its diamond jubilee, Edinburgh’s renowned Royal Military Tattoo takes place between August 6 and 28. Against the backdrop of Edinburgh Castle, the world’s most spectacular tattoo will host a celebration of talent from four continents.

Firefighters using heavy machinery, shovels and bare hands dug for survivors today but only found bodies under a mountain of red earth and crushed lodgings - the worst of a spate of mudslides and floods which have killed at least 64 people in south-eastern Brazil.

A small army of rescuers clambered across a mountain of red earth and crushed homes today in a bid to find survivors of a massive mudslide which killed at least 26 people at an island resort in Brazil.

Brazilian police are continuing their investigation into the death of a