SCHOOLGIRLS as young as 15 claim to have been sexually assaulted on a cruise after being "plied with alcohol or drugs". Up to 10 girls are understood to have gone to police after the ship they were travelling on docked in Barcelona on May 1. Police in Spain are investigating the alleged assaults after eight...

FEARS are mounting that an inferno raging in the Chernobyl exclusion zone could soon reach the vicinity of the nuclear reactor. Flames have already burnt through more than 1,100 hectares of forest in northern Ukraine and are now "rapidly spreading" in the area established around Reactor 4. Fires like these are particularly dangerous, as they...