TAIWAN:  Budai, a township in southwest Taiwan, is building a church in the form of a giant high-heeled shoe, made of metal and blue glass tiles, seeking to attract more tourists to the area.

At least three crew members were killed when a military transport plane crashed near Seville airport in south-western Spain today, officials said.

Basque separatist group ETA clearly intended to cause casualties in a bomb attack it planned this week, Spain’s interior minister said today.