Brit tourists in Costa Del Sol face £2,700 fine for flouting smoking ban

Spain has introduced a nationwide smoking ban in a bid to reduce the surging rates of coronavirus, leading to holidaymakers facing tough penalties if they flout the rules

Beaches in Marbella get night-time curfew to curb coronavirus spread

Officials have imposed drastic new measures as they desperately try to stop coronavirus rates increasing following scorching temperatures in Spain leading to crowded beaches

Paedophile teacher who sexually abused students avoids jail because he’s too fat

Peter John O’Neill, 61, is morbidly obese and uses a wheelchair, needs a full-time carer and is so unfit he has been unable to leave his house to get to his court hearing

Pop star killed when car crossing tracks struck by train during live stream

WARNING – DISTRESSING FOOTAGE Tavy Pustiu, 29, was listening to loud music in his car when the train ploughed into the car’s passenger side in Romania’s Prahova County

New coronavirus strain is 10 times more infectious ‘but may be a good thing’

Paul Tambyah, president elect of the International Society of Infectious Diseases in the US, said the D614G mutation is becoming more common in Europe but coincides with a drop in death rates

Couple caught on camera having sex during Zoom meeting hosted by council

The man, who has not been named, left the meeting but forgot to turn his camera off so was unaware his X-rated performance was being live-streamed to the horror of its other particpants

‘Tormented’ life of ‘world’s loneliest elephant’ kept in chains for 35 years

Kaavan the Asian elephant had inspired an international effort to have him moved from his cramped home at the Maraghazar Zoo in Pakistan’s capital, Islamabad

‘I flew to Barcelona during the pandemic and this is how my holiday went’

Estel Farell-Roig flew out to see her family in Barcelona and the holiday was very different from her previous experiences as Spain continues to report thousands of new cases

Parents sickened by ‘extremely disturbing’ hidden feature on LOL Surprise! doll

Mum Kate Worsfold says that her daughter’s LOL Surprise! dolls have ‘sexualised’ outfits that are not visible when purchasing them

Cyborg locusts used to sniff out bombs ‘could stop deadly terror attacks’

The sensory system of the insect was ‘hijacked’ by researchers using electrodes who found it could detect and discern between explosive scents within 500 milliseconds of exposure