Ben Harding

Greece’s Lucas Papademos will seek to take advantage of a rare political truce to push austerity and radical reform and stave off bankruptcy.

A car bomb exploded outside a Civil Guard barracks in the northern Spanish city of Burgos early on Wednesday, injuring 46 people.

Seve Ballesteros was in a stable condition after an operation on Tuesday to remove a brain tumour, the Spanish golfer’s doctors said on Wednesday.

While Spain’s beaches are still busy, shops and restaurants at its resorts are ominously quiet.

For five years, Paul James hitched, trekked and drove to get away from his native West Africa. He survived the Sahara, begged on the streets of Morocco and crossed the…