Last year six people died attempting to sneak through the tunnel and more

Last year, six people died attempting to sneak through the tunnel, and more than 100 have been injured, says the French Interior Ministry.Last month, an illegal immigrant trying to reach Britain was electrocuted on top of a freight train headed toward the Channel Tunnel, the French rail operator said. Every night, 100 people from the nearby Sangatte Red Cross hostel are arrested in the Eurotunnel zone and the port area.. After its military successes in Kosovo, Sierra Leone and Afghanistan, Britain tried on Sunday to end the continuing row over Gibraltar by invading Spain. Sunbathers sat up startled, fishermen gawped and children ran to their mothers as the men of 45 Commando took up battle stations. It was then that they were approached by a policeman asking: “Excuse me, Inglese, but which country do you think you are in?”Having realised they were not in Gibraltar, the marines packed up their weapons and climbed back into their landing craft, muttering apologies, to go further south.The marines, based at Condor Barracks, near Arbroath in Scotland, were taking part in an exercise while sailing to the Gulf on the helicopter carrier, HMS Ocean.

The wrong landing, a corporal pointed out, was due to “one of the most dangerous things in the world – an officer with a map”.A Ministry of Defence spokesman said: “We were not trying to take Spain and have no plans to do so.”There is much embarrassment, the error is regretted and lessons have been learnt. Anyway they spent only about five minutes on the beach before being told they were in the wrong country.”The Spaniards were charitable about what happened. David Iria, a policeman, said the mistake was understandable as “it is difficult know exactly where you are on this coastline”. The mayor of La Linea, Juan Carlos Juarez, hoped the British would not make a habit of arriving in that fashion.. A disgruntled former employee shot and killed three people and injured several others in a rampage near Munich on Tuesday, police said. Hours later, police said they discovered the suspected assailant’s body.

at a company that had recently fired him, where he killed two former co­workers. He then drove to his former high school about 20 kilometers (12 miles) away, shooting the principal dead, injuring several other people, police said.Police who surrounded the school complex later said they discovered the suspect’s body inside the building.Police said the assailant, believed to be about 20 years old, also set off two home–made pipe bombs at the school in Freising, about 40 kilometers (25 miles) north of Munich.After the school shootings, police officers and sharpshooters ringed the building and helicopters whirred overhead. Police said some 400 students were safely evacuated, some of whom had holed up in panic in classrooms.For several hours, police were unsure whether the man – clad in an army camouflage suit – was still inside or had fled on foot.The rampage began when the assailant walked into a home furnishings firm in the nearby town of Eching at about 8 a.m. and shot his former boss and a foreman with a “heavy–caliber gun,” police spokesman Hans–Peter Kammerer said One man died on the spot, the other shortly afterward. Police said the company had fired the young man in the last few weeks.Workplace shootings remain rare in Germany, even though crime has risen overall in recent years.After killing his co­workers, police said the shooter got into his car and drove to the school, where he opened fire and seriously wounded the principal, who later died of his injuries.Several other people were injured at the school, police said, revising earlier statements that no one had been injured there. Police had no immediate details on the injuries.The school specializes in economics and business, and its students range in age from about 12 to 18.. A bald and practically barkless canine from Mexico is becoming the hot dog in America, where pups can now fetch $2,000 (£1,400) each.

The Mexican hairless has become suddenly trendy as an asthma-friendly apartment pet with an intriguing pre-Hispanic heritage.These xolo dogs have been posed as exotic props at the latest New York fashion shoots, a sort of post-modern poodle that never needs to be clipped. There’s even a cameo role for one butch xolo opposite the Hollywood actress Salma Hayek in a new bio-pic of the Mexican painter Frida Kahlo, who doted on a pair of the odd creatures.Half a dozen descendants of this artist’s pets romp on the grounds of a converted convent in Xochimilco, alongside albino peacocks and a flock of ducks. Dolores Olmedo, who has an extensive collection of paintings and pre-Colombian folk art here, was given her first xolo by Frida Kahlo’s husband, the artist Diego Rivera, back in 1955 She has coddled 30 of these rare dogs over the years. Less than 6,000 xolo dogs are thought to exist, although Mexican breeders now have the cash incentive to put their studs on double duty.”I used to keep different breeds of dogs, but none were as intelligent ,” Dolores Olmedo, the octogenarian art collector, told me. “These are the two most important things, intelligence and loyalty.”A spry charcoal-coloured dog, which sports a white forelock rather like Jerry Lee Lewis’s quiff, bounds up on her velvet couch. Oddly enough,this particular Mexican hairless is shedding, but Ms Olmedo strokes her pug-nosed pet indulgently and ignores the long strands from his tail tuft and forelock that litter the armrest.