The father of the missing Swiss twins wrote to his estranged wife saying he had killed them and intended to kill himself, police have said.

POLICE combed the area near the Swiss home of missing twin girls including a nearby lake yesterday, in a desperate three country search more than a week after they vanished with their now dead father.

All six people aboard a light aircraft that plunged into the sea near Corsica have been found alive.

Rescuers have so far found two survivors after a plane with six people aboard plunged into the sea today near Corsica.