A policeman and two women were killed and another man seriously hurt when their car was hit by a passenger train at a crossing with automatic barriers in Hua Hin, Prachuap Khiri Khan, in the early hours of Thursday.

Network Rail releases ‘advent calendar’ of strikes

Emergency services for Catalonia said that 150 people were in a "mild condition", while five others were left in a "less serious condition" and three were taken to hospital as a precaution

The station was among the lowest in the region for passenger numbers

More than 40,000 members of the RMT union plan to walk out for eight days in December and January

Laisa Alves disappeared after a party and her body was found in a ditch in Ceará State, Brazil. It was later taken to a forensics institute to undergo an autopsy