A New York Winter’s Tale ***

A quadruple amputee has swum the Straits of Gibraltar to Morocco as part of an effort to swim between all the world’s continents.

AT this time of year, the vast white beaches along the Atlantic coast of southern Spain, the Costa de la Luz, are deserted, and the holiday apartments that front them, empty.

Concorde Travel has added Tel Aviv to their holiday offerings for a limited time.

Two cruise liner passengers were killed by a shower of glass shards when giant freak waves smashed windows on their luxury ship.

The best-selling novel 'The Alchemist' is to be brought to the big screen, it was announced today.

The family and friends of Amy Fitzpatrick are distributing photographs in Morocco today as part of their ongoing search for the missing Irish teenager.

Spanish police have passed on to Interpol a photograph of a girl taken by two Spanish tourists recently in Morocco which the couple suspect could be of missing British girl Madeline McCann.

Renault-Nissan today signed a preliminary agreement with the Moroccan government to build a manufacturing complex in northern Morocco with a capacity of 400,000 cars a year.

The body of an Irish man has been found in Morocco, and police in Tangiers have launched an investigation into his death.

THE hunt for abducted Madeleine McCann was linked to South America yesterday for the first time.

The hunt for abducted English girl Madeleine McCann was linked to South America today for the first time.

The anguished parents of missing Madeleine McCann will fly to Germany today to continue the search for their daughter.

WHILE waiting to move into our long-term rented house in the Alpujarras mountains, south of Granada, we left Spain and went to Africa, arriving at midnight in Tangiers with no arrangements made.

DOZENS of African illegal immigrants who charged across the border into the Spanish enclave of Melilla have been deported to Morocco after a week of deadly clashes, officials said yesterday.

A bus carrying Moroccans overturned in western France during a storm last night, killing 12 people and seriously injuring 38 others.

I READ with interest your recent editorials in the wake of the massacre in Madrid.

FEARS of a fresh terror onslaught mounted after a wave of suicide bombings killed scores of people from Israel to Morocco over the weekend.

Investigators raided Islamic militant strongholds across Morocco today in search of suspects linked to the suicide bombings in Casablanca that killed at least 28 people.