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Prison officials in Colombia say they've caught an 11-year-old girl trying to smuggle dozens of mobile phones and a gun into a jail.
The guards became
suspicious
when they saw what they described as irregular shapes
underneath
the girl's jumper.
When they investigated, they found 74 mobile phones and a revolver taped to her back.
A group of about 70 Belgian students is still stranded on the Spanish island of Lanzarote after they were forced off an Ryanair flight to Brussels following a dispute with cabin staff. Ryanair says police were called after the university students became
disruptive
. Sarah Rainsford in Madrid has more.
The budget airline says the altercation began after some of the students were charged a fee for excess hand luggage. Spanish police ordered all passengers off the plane. When the dispute continued on the ground, none of the students were allowed back on board. Stranded at the airport, they are now trying to book alternative flights home. But the Belgian council told the BBC most routes were already full or too expensive for the mutinous students to afford.
Six thousand people had to be moved from their homes in a suburb of Paris so that an unexploded Second World War British bomb could be defused. Allied bombers attacked the area in 1942.
The legendary blues and rock guitarist Gary Moore has died suddenly in Spain. He was 58. Born in Belfast in Northern Ireland, Moore featured in the line-ups of a number of