At least 11 people are dead after a typhoon in the Philippines forced more than 65,000 villagers from their homes.

At least five people died and 20 others were injured today when a bus crashed on a highway in southern Spain, firefighters said.

WE DROVE across the bare Meseta, the tableland at the centre of Spain, on a Sunday morning, the sky big and blue overhead and snow-capped mountains on the horizon, rising above a band of blue mist.

WEIRD WEATHER, last week. After seven or so weeks of almost constant sunshine and skies as peerless blue as Andalucia, suddenly the light was grey, the air was dead and a prickly, humid heat enveloped us.