More than 50 people have died as flooding from days of torrential rains swamped Argentina’s low-lying capital and province of Buenos Aires.

A bomb has exploded outside a court house in Spain’s northern Basque region, causing considerable damage but no injuries, police said today.

Spanish police today arrested at least seven people suspected of recruiting fighters for the Iraqi insurgency, Spanish news reports said.

Spanish police defused a bomb planted outside a courthouse hours after a judge and parliament moved to shut down a party linked to armed Basque separatists, authorities said today.

A policeman was shot twice in the Basque town of Tolosa tonight in what looked to be another attack by the separatist group ETA.