Summary: Angela Merkel has hailed a new Franco-German friendship treaty as being a step towards the creation of a future joint European army.The German Chancellor said the pact, inked in the ancient western German city of Aachen today, aims to build a 'common military culture' between the two countries. Spanish tennis star Pablo Carreno Busta has spectacularly blown up at the chair umpire as he crashed out of the Australian Open after an epic five-hour clash with Kei Nishikori. SPAIN’S Ministry of Public Works has announced that it will not be taking any action against Ryanair in the aftermath of the racist incident that happened on a Barcelona to London flight back in October. A BRITISH expatriate in Benidorm has allegedly been ordered to take down Union Jack flag bunting at her bar and has been threatened with a fine if she fails to do so.Tracey Walker, 54, originally from Bradford, claimed Spanish police threatened her with an €800 fine. A 21-year-old man, originally from Uruguay, was arrested last Thursday in the Barcelona area for allegedly beating up his son, a baby aged just two months. THE boss of Puerto Banus, Marbella, based nightclub chain Lineker’s Group SL has died in a hail of bullets.The 49-year-old Marbella night club entrepreneur looks to be the latest victim of a ‘settling of scores’ murders that have struck the Costa del Sol city in the past few months. AROUND 14,000 missing people in Spain remain unaccounted for and two people a day disappear in the country, according to new data. FIREFIGHTERS were called out to an industrial estate in the Valencia Region on Monday after a fire broke out at a decorating company’s premises on a local industrial estate. Emergency services said they were alerted to the fire, which broke out on the Cova industrial estate in Manises, at around 1.15pm. The town is home to Valencia’s airport. Medical personnel treat three workers for smoke inhalation, with two of them aged 41 and 51 taken to the Intermutual Hospital of Levante. A few days after the Duke-s car accident....A royal gamekeeper hit a motorist on the head with a stick and called him a 'f***ing peasant' on the Sandringham estate. A mother-of-two who punched a 13-year-old girl in the face then bragged about it on Facebook has been spared prison. Gemma Johnson, 33, from Hull, walked free after beating the teenager while her co-defendant was locked up for assaulting the girl's father.......... Rachel Crowe, 26, of Bolton, Greater Manchester, was assaulted and stalked by James Hall on the day millions of viewers watched her become a comedian's 'unexpected star' on tv programme. A Labour-supporting schoolboy from an East End council estate has won a £76,000 scholarship to Eton despite calling the public school 'absurd and corrupt'.
