A suspected paedophile who fled to England to escape trial has been recaptured and extradited, police said today.

Attempts to extradite an American right-to-die activist over the alleged assisted suicide of a woman in Dublin over five years ago has hit a legal quagmire, an inquest heard today.

Paula Radcliffe will miss the Commonwealth Games, which begin in Melbourne next week, after picking up a foot injury at her training base in the United States.

Czechs snaked along police barriers and crowded on to riverfront lookout points to watch the waters of the muddy Vltava River recede after some of Europe's most deadly flooding in decades.