IT might be Lisbon treaty day in Ireland today but yesterday in Geneva, this non-aligned part of Europe was entirely preoccupied with a Lisbon treat. Mind, they were made to wait for it.

FRIENDS of three British holidaymakers who drowned while attempting to save their children spoke yesterday of the devastation of two families.

Three British parents have drowned along with a German national after they went to the rescue of children in difficulties off the coast of the Algarve.

From the idea that a grieving parent took Madeleine to the possibility she died the night she went missing, police have ruled out nothing, write John Bingham and Sam Marsden.

The search for missing Madeleine McCann has centred on a group of three – two men and a woman, it was disclosed today.