An investigation is under way after the train derailed as it rounded a bend near the town of Nizanda.

Thousands of homes in parts of Finland, Sweden and Norway have been left without power.

Observers say the vote, accompanied by a renewed crackdown on dissent, is meant to entrench the junta's power.

The annual food fight festival ''Els Enfarinats'' has left the Spanish town of Ibi covered in flour and egg shells.

Police detained the male suspect after shooting him in the leg, while two others are seriously injured.

The 70-year-old had suffered with the spasms for nine months, his wife says, and was already in hospital for hernia surgery.