The case, which will not affect this election cycle, involves a legal fight over how the state draws its voting maps and could determine the political power of Black voters there.
A group of Louisiana voters asked the Supreme Court to intervene after the Republican-controlled Legislature in the state redrew a voting map to include two majority-Black districts.
Commissioner Thomas Donlon and his acting chief of staff, Tarik Sheppard, had to be separated by another official, said people familiar with the dispute.
The Sydney Marathon has joined the ranks of New York, Boston, Chicago, London, Berlin and Tokyo, receiving a designation reserved for the most elite races in the world.
Huddleson, who is MP for Droitwich and Evesham in the West Midlands, previously worked under Badenoch as a minister when she was business secretary. He was most recently a treasury minister.
Lord Johnson also worked under Badenoch as a trade minister, after being appointed to the Lords by Liz Truss during her brief spell as prime minister. He had a previous spell as vice-chairman of the party under Theresa May between 2016 and 2019, and has donated more than £275,000 to Tories in the past decade.
He co-founded the investment firm Somerset Capital Management with former Conservative MP and minister Jacob Rees-Mogg in 2007.
A formal announcement of the full shadow cabinet is expected before its first meeting on Tuesday.
Badenoch is expected to give a job to her leadership rival Jenrick, after she said in her victory speech that he has a "key role to play in our party for many years to come".
She said on Sunday that she would bring in people from all wings of the party to her team.
She said she wanted a "shadow cabinet that is meritocratic, that brings in a diverse field of experience, geographic diversity, background, the sort of work experience, professional experience that the MPs had before they came [into parliament]".
The current Labour government has 120 ministers, meaning the Tories may struggle to shadow all posts given they only have 121 MPs.
Former Home Secretary and defeated leadership candidate James Cleverly last week ruled out serving in the shadow cabinet, telling the FT he had been "liberated" from 16 years on the political front line and was now "not particularly in the mood to be boxed back into a narrow band again".
Former Environment Secretary Steve Barclay confirmed he would also return to the backbenches over the weekend.
Since then, they have only increased once, in October 2017, when then-prime minister Theresa May announced a £250 rise.
A freeze on fees since then is due to expire in 2025, after which point they would rise in line with a measure of inflation called RPIX, which counts the cost of everything except mortgage interest costs.
Higher tuition fees will mean students need to borrow more to go to university, and will leave with more debt.
Most students pay for university through student loans.
Loans are handed out by Student Finance England and students do not ever see that money, as it is paid directly to their universities.
Students can also get help with daily living costs, through maintenance loans.
These are paid into students' bank accounts in instalments. They have increased over recent years in cash terms, but their real-terms value has not kept up with the rising cost of living.
Both tuition fee and maintenance loans must be paid back.
Maintenance grants, which were non-repayable, were scrapped in 2016.
Divers have concentrated their search for missing bodies in garages and a multi-storey car park in the town of Aldaia
Spanish rescuers are focusing their search for missing people on underground garages and a multi-storey car park following last week's devastating floods in Valencia.
The death toll after a year's worth of rain fell in parts of the region last week now stands at 217.
A car park in the nearby town of Aldaia capable of holding thousands of vehicles, has become central to the search, but rescue teams have reportedly not yet found any bodies.
It comes as Spain's State Meteorological Agency (AEMET) placed part of the north-eastern Catalonia region on red alert for torrential rain, with its capital Barcelona experiencing flooding on Monday morning.
The car park at the Bonaire shopping centre in Aldaia was inundated during flash floods last week.
According to Spanish news agency Europa Press, police have confirmed that search teams did not locate any victims in the first 50 vehicles inspected at the site.
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Divers are searching a car park in Aldaia which was inundated by the flash floods
The storm caught many victims in their vehicles on roads and in underground spaces such as car parks, tunnels and garages where rescue operations are particularly difficult.
Objects were also thrown at Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez, who was quickly evacuated.
The Civil Guard has opened an investigation into the chaotic scenes, Interior Minister Fernando Grande-Marlaska told public broadcaster TVE.
He blamed "marginal groups" for instigating the violence where mud spattered the monarchs' face and clothes.
Video shows angry crowd throwing objects at Spanish king on Sunday
Local authorities in Valencia have extended travel restrictions for another two days to facilitate the work of the emergency services, cancelled school classes and urged people to work from home.
In Catalonia, train services have been suspended due to adverse weather conditions, while footage shared online appears to show vehicles submerged in floodwater on roads.
Strictly Come Dancing star Amy Dowden will not be returning to the series this year, a spokesperson has said.
Dowden was taken to hospital as a "precaution" after she began "feeling unwell" during the main show two Saturdays ago.
On Monday, a Strictly spokesperson said the professional dancer will not come back as she "focuses on her recovery following a foot injury".
Fellow pro Lauren Oakley will take her place, pairing up with Dowden's celebrity partner, JLS singer JB Gill.
"The whole Strictly family sends Amy love and well wishes," the spokesperson added.
Oakley stood in for Dowden last Saturday, with the pair performing a Bruno Mars medley scoring 39 points.
It took them to the joint top of the leaderboard, alongside former Love Island star Tasha Ghouri and her dance partner Aljaz Skorjanec.
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JB Gill performed with Lauren Oakley on Saturday night, as Amy Dowden watched from the studio
Dowden returned to the Strictly line-up in 2024, having missed the previous series after being diagnosed with breast cancer.
Two Saturdays ago, an ambulance was called to Elstree Studios in Borehamwood when the dancer began feeling unwell.
The following day, a spokesperson for the dancer said the ambulance "was called as a precaution" and that she was now "feeling much better".
But in a statement on Monday, a Strictly spokesperson said: “Sadly, Amy Dowden MBE will not be partaking in the rest of the competition this year.
"Whilst Amy focuses on her recovery following a foot injury, fellow professional dancer, Lauren Oakley, will step in as JB’s dance partner."
The spokesperson said the "health and wellbeing" of everyone on the show are always "the utmost priority".
Dowden was initially diagnosed with stage three breast cancer aged 32 in May 2023, after finding a lump in her breast the day before she went on her honeymoon.
The now-34-year-old was diagnosed again later that same year. She returned to hospital in August 2024 for further tests, as doctors were concerned about abnormalities in her breast after a check-up. She was later given the all-clear.
Dowden opened up about her ordeal with breast cancer in a BBC documentary, Strictly Amy: Cancer and Me, which was broadcast in September.
She also has Crohn's disease - a lifelong condition which causes parts of the digestive system to become inflamed - and has previously spoken about its toll on her health.
Oakley, who did not have a celebrity partner this year, joined the BBC show in 2022.
Last year, Oakley was partnered with Channel 4 News presenter Krishnan Guru-Murthy. The pair finished in eighth place.
Quincy Jones lived for 50 years after attending his own memorial service.
When the musician suffered a brain aneurysm in 1974, his chances of survival were said to be so slim, and his stature so high, that his famous friends started planning a tribute concert.
Then aged 41, Jones had already made an indelible mark on American music as a musician, arranger, songwriter, producer, soundtrack composer and record executive.
He started out in the jumping jazz clubs of the 1950s; mastered soul, swing and pop on recordings by Dinah Washington, Frank Sinatra and Lesley Gore; and reached the top 10 in his own right.
Some of the biggest entertainers in America agreed to perform at his memorial.
When he pulled through, the show went ahead anyway.
Jones went along, accompanied by his neurologist, who gave strict instructions not to get too excited.
"That was hard to do with Richard Pryor, Marvin Gaye, Sarah Vaughan and Sidney Poitier singing your praises," he told Newsweek in 2008.
Even more exciting things were to come.
Jones went on to forge an era-defining partnership with Michael Jackson; oversee 1985's We Are the World, one of the biggest-selling songs of all time; craft hits for acts like Chaka Khan and Donna Summer; and work with the biggest names in hip-hop.
Few branches of American popular music were immune to his influence.
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Quincy Jones started out playing in and then leading jazz bands
Jones had always been a survivor.
He grew up in the shadow of the Great Depression in the 1930s on the South Side of Chicago. His mother was taken to a psychiatric institution when he was seven and his father worked as a carpenter for notorious gangsters the Jones Boys.
Young Quincy wanted to be a gangster too. "You want to be what you see, and that's all we ever saw," he said.
He and his brother were "street rats" and, when he strayed into the wrong neighbourhood at the age of seven, a rival gang member "nailed my hand to a fence". Another injury came from an ice pick to the face.
His father took the family to Washington state, where one night Quincy and some friends broke into a community centre, looking for food. Inside, there was a piano.
"I touched it and every cell in my body said, this is what you'll do [for] the rest of your life," he told BBC Radio 4's Front Row in 2016.
The encounter "changed my life", he said in conversation with rapper Kendrick Lamar for a 2018 Netflix documentary, adding that, "I would have been dead or in prison a long time ago" if he hadn't discovered music.
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Ray Charles and Quincy Jones started out together in their teens
Quincy immediately began experimenting with instruments at school, settling on the trumpet, and began playing in nightclubs.
At the age of 14, he made friends with another then-unknown musician called Ray Charles, who became a musical mentor and a lifelong collaborator.
He also played with Billie Holiday at 14, and got taken under the wings of bandleader Count Basie and trumpeter Clark Terry. He went on to accompany Dizzy Gillespie and appeared in the band during Elvis Presley's first TV appearance.
After showing a talent for arranging songs while touring the world with Lionel Hampton's big band, he was soon in demand in that capacity, too.
But after running up a $145,000 debt on a European tour, he took a day job with Mercury Records in 1961, becoming the first African-American vice-president of a major record label.
While there, he discovered and produced the million-selling single It's My Party by Lesley Gore. He also released the Big Band Bossa Nova compilation album, which included his own infectious track Soul Bossa Nova, which has since become a staple of parties and film soundtracks, including Austin Powers.
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Frank Sinatra called Quincy Jones "one of the finest musicians I've ever known"
Meanwhile, Sinatra had been impressed with Jones's work and called on him to arrange and conduct two of his albums in the 1960s. The pair formed a fertile partnership, with Sinatra calling him "a giant" and "one of the finest musicians I've ever known".
The pair became firm friends outside the studio, too. "Seven double Jack Daniels in an hour... [Sinatra] invented partying," Jones recalled.
Jones also worked with many other big names of the age, including Aretha Franklin, Louis Armstrong and Sammy Davis Jr, while his solo album Body Heat reached the US top 10.
Meanwhile, he was forging a career writing soundtracks for TV shows and films including In Cold Blood, The Italian Job and Roots.
In Cold Blood's author Truman Capote reportedly tried to have Jones removed from the film because he was black. But he remained, and the score earned Jones the first of seven Oscar nominations.
Another soundtrack was The Wiz, the 1978 film musical version of the Wizard of Oz, which starred Diana Ross and a 19-year-old Michael Jackson, who was looking to branch out after finding childhood fame in The Jackson 5.
Jones saw a superstar quality in Jackson and became his producer and mentor, first on 1979's Off the Wall, which was a major hit, and then 1982's Thriller, which reached new heights of commercial and critical success, and made Jackson the undisputed King of Pop.
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Michael Jackson and Diana Ross starred in The Wiz
The album was not just the fulfilment of Jackson's talent, but the culmination of Jones's career, as he used his peerless musical expertise to define the 1980s with a sleek and polished fusion of R&B and pop.
Jones listened to 600 songs (he sometimes said 800) to decide which nine should go on the album, and employed a dream team of musicians and songwriters that he had been assembling over the years.
His choice of collaborators was one example of his knack for knowing how to make a good song great. For Beat It, he thought the single needed a rockier edge, so he recruited Eddie Van Halen to contribute a guitar solo. Legend has it that the solo was so explosive that a speaker caught fire in the studio.
And when it came to the title track, Jones didn't like the original name Starlight, so he asked its writer, Rod Temperton, to come up with something different. Temperton renamed it Thriller and recast it with a spooky theme. Jones topped it off by asking his wife's friend, horror actor Vincent Price, to record a spoken-word outro.
The album earned Jones and Jackson the Grammy Award for producer of the year, while Thriller was named album of the year and Beat It won record of the year.
Jones used his winning formula in the 1980s with George Benson, Donna Summer and Patti Austin, and produced the decade's best-selling single when Jackson and Lionel Richie assembled 35 of America's biggest names for the 1985 charity song We Are the World.
Jones famously posted a message on the studio entrance telling the stars: "Check your egos at the door".
He had further success under his own name with his albums The Dude and Back on the Block. The latter, released in 1989, featured an all-star cast including many friends from his early career like Ella Fitzgerald, Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie and Ray Charles.
But as well as revisiting his past, he was also firmly in the present, enlisting rappers like Ice-T and Grandmaster Melle Mel to appear on the title track.
It earned Jones another album of the year award at the Grammys.
Although he was in his 50s, he embraced rap music because he saw similarities with the energy of bebop jazz, and because may of its stars had risen out of hardship on the streets.
"I feel a kinship there because we went through a lot of the same stuff," he said.
And rap stars reciprocated his affection, looking on Jones as an inspirational elder statesman of black American music. Kendrick Lamar and Dr Dre were awestruck when meeting him for the Netflix documentary, which was titled Quincy and directed by his daughter, the actress Rashida Jones.
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Jones used his status to try to try to stem the violence in the hip-hop world, convening the Quincy Jones Hip-Hop Symposium in 1995, where he addressed a room full of the nation's rap stars.
"I want to see you guys live at least to my age," he told them.
For Jones, social activism went hand-in-hand with his music.
He met Martin Luther King in 1955, and "from then on, my life was never the same", he said.
"Civil rights work and political involvement was no longer an activity to do on the side. It became an essential part of life and humanity."
He set up the Quincy Jones Listen Up Foundation and launched the We Are the Future project, among support for other causes.
Elsewhere, his redoubtable work ethic saw him launch a record label and hip-hop magazine Vibe, as well as producing films like The Color Purple and TV shows including The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air.
With that workload, and an accompanying longstanding drink problem, his family life and his health both suffered.
He married and divorced three times, having a nervous breakdown after splitting from third wife Peggy Lipton. To recover, he went to stay on the Pacific island owned by actor Marlon Brando, whom he first met in a jazz club at the age of 18.
Jones was also in a relationship with actress and model Nastassja Kinski in the 1990s, and he had seven children in total.
In 2015, he went into a diabetic coma for four days, and the following year went to hospital with a blood clot.
His death on Sunday at the age of 91 has left the music world in mourning.
If there's to be a second Quincy Jones memorial concert, stars will be queuing up to celebrate the achievements of a singular talent.
There have been numerous incidents of self-harm and suicide attempts among migrants
Migrants stranded for years on the remote Indian Ocean island of Diego Garcia will be offered the right to come to the UK, under a government proposal.
Around 60 Sri Lankan Tamils have spent more than three years in a makeshift camp on the island, which hosts a secretive UK-US military base, after becoming the first people ever to file asylum claims there.
The government has previously opposed bringing the group to the UK and complex legal battles have been fought for years over their fate.
In a letter on Monday, government lawyers said that “following further consideration”, the government had proposed a “change of policy”.
Under this, “all families, children and those of the unaccompanied males who do not have criminal convictions, outstanding charges or investigations would be offered the opportunity to be transferred directly to the UK”.
It added that work on the offer was “ongoing” and a formal decision would be made within 48 hours. “Details will be provided as soon as possible,” it said.
In a phone call with one of the Tamils, an official said the decision to bring them to the UK was due to the “exceptional circumstances” of the island, adding that entry would be for “a short period of time”.
The Prime Minister’s Official Spokesperson told reporters at a daily news briefing in Downing Street that “the government inherited a deeply-troubling situation that remained unresolved under the previous administration when it came to migrants who had arrived at Diego Garcia. Diego Garcia had clearly never been a suitable long-term location for migrants”.
He added “the government has been working to find a solution that protects their welfare and the integrity of British territorial borders”.
Lawyers representing the Tamils described the move as a “very welcome step” in a “long battle for justice”.
“After three years living in inhumane conditions, having to fight various injustices in court on numerous occasions, His Majesty’s Government [HMG] has now decided that our clients should now come directly to the UK. We hope that HMG will now take urgent steps to give effect to this decision,” Simon Robinson of UK law firm Duncan Lewis told the BBC.
“It looks like a dream. I don’t know what to think,” one Tamil said after receiving a call from an official with the news.
The UK had previously offered some of the group a temporary move to Romania with the possibility of then coming to the UK. Others were offered financial incentives to return to Sri Lanka.
Under a separate deal last month, future migrants arriving on Biot before the arrangement with Mauritius comes into force will be transferred to the island of St Helena - another UK territory some 5,000 miles away.
In court on Monday, lawyers said three people with criminal convictions may be sent to the island of Montserrat - a British territory in the Caribbean - to serve their sentences.
During the visit, the migrants walked the court through military tents they have been living in, pointing out damp, tears in the canvas, droppings, and a rats’ nest above one of the beds.
Over the past three years, there have been multiple hunger strikes on the island, and numerous incidents of self-harm and suicide attempts after which some people have been transferred to Rwanda for medical care.
“For three years I have been caged. Now they are releasing me but I don’t know what to do. I feel a bit blank,” one man in Rwanda said.
“I am very happy because I am coming to the UK. I thought they would send me to some other country.”
The group includes 16 children. Most are awaiting final decisions on claims for international protection - which the United Nations says is akin to refugee status - or appealing against rejections. In total, eight have been granted international protection.
Dawn Sturgess, 44, died in July 2018 after coming into contact with nerve agent Novichok
A police officer who wrongly described Novichok victim Dawn Sturgess as a "well-known drug addict" has apologised.
Wiltshire Police's temporary Supt Kerry Lawes told an inquiry into Ms Sturgess's death that "there was no intelligence" to support the comment.
Ms Sturgess died on 8 July 2018 after being exposed to the nerve agent, which was left in a discarded perfume bottle.
The inquiry heard last week how a former Russian spy and his daughter, who were poisoned with the substance months earlier, were initially suspected to have suffered an opioid overdose.
Both Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia survived their exposure to the substance, as did then-police officer Nick Bailey.
Ms Sturgess's boyfriend Charlie Rowley, who had unwittingly given her the bottle containing the killer nerve agent, also survived the incident.
Previously, the Sturgess inquiry heard that paramedics who attended to Mr Rowley formed a view he was suffering from nerve agent poisoning, but the police disagreed with them.
Ms Sturgess was exposed to the nerve agent after Mr Rowley gave her a discarded perfume bottle he had found
The inquiry heard that Mr Rowley was known to Wiltshire Police as a drug user.
While Wiltshire Police's Chief Constable Catherine Roper previously apologised for Ms Sturgess being described as a "known drug user", Monday was the first time Ms Lawes had apologised publicly.
In an email sent to the coroner on July 1, before Ms Sturgess’ death, she said the police had received a report of a possible nerve agent poisoning, which she believed was a drugs overdose.
'Unprofessional comment'
In the email Ms Lawes, who was a Det Sgt at the time of the poisoning, said the ambulance and fire brigade who attended the scene had “panicked somewhat”, adding that Ms Sturgess and Mr Rowley were “two well-known drug addicts”.
Ms Lawes, who could not attend the inquiry in person, apologised for saying the ambulance and fire service had "panicked".
“I have stated the ambulance and fire panicked somewhat, this was an unprofessional comment to make and I would like to take the opportunity to apologise for it,” she said.
In a written statement read out to the inquiry earlier, Ms Lawes said the belief that the incident was drugs related was influenced by information she had received from police.
She also apologised for writing that Ms Sturgess was an addict.
“I now know there is no intelligence to support the assertion that Dawn Sturgess was herself a user of illegal drugs or an addict,” she said.
She added that she had always acted in good faith and based on what she thought was in the best interests of the individuals involved.
'Bad batch' of drugs
Det Sgt Eirin Martin also gave evidence to the inquiry.
She received a handover on the case from then-detective sergeant Lawes on July 2.
She said the police’s initial hypothesis was that Ms Sturgess and Mr Rowley had ingested drugs cut with pesticides, and this had caused them to overdose.
Because of this hypothesis, she asked Wiltshire Police’s media team to send out a press release on July 2 warning of a potential “bad batch” of drugs.
“At the point I made the press release in relation to the contaminated drugs that was, at that point, the primary hypothesis,” she said.
Democrats in battleground states have built a tightly structured get-out-the-vote operation, while Republicans have relied more on outside groups for canvassing.
Thousands of volunteers across the country spent the weekend reaching out to voters. Michelle Garcia-Daniels, left, a volunteer for the Harris campaign, canvassed on Saturday in North Philadelphia, Pa.
Samuel Paty was 47 when beheaded on the street outside his school in 2020
Eight people have gone on trial in Paris accused of encouraging the killer of Samuel Paty, the teacher who was beheaded on the street outside his school four years ago.
Abdoullakh Anzorov, the young man of Chechen origin who wielded the knife, is dead – shot by police in the minutes after his attack.
So the trial is less about the murder itself, and more about the circumstances that led to it.
Over seven weeks, the court will hear how a 13-year-old’s schoolgirl lie span out of control thanks to social media, triggering an international hate campaign, and inspiring a lone mission of vengeance from a self-styled defender of Islam.
On trial are two men accused of identifying Mr Paty as a “blasphemer” over the Internet, two friends of Anzorov who allegedly gave him logistical help, and four others who offered support on chatlines.
Mr Paty’s murder horrified – and petrified – France.
He was a conscientious and much-liked history teacher in a secondary school in Conflans-Sainte-Honorine, in the prosperous western suburbs of Paris.
On 6 October 2020 he gave a lesson on freedom of speech – the same lesson he had given several times before – to a class of young teenagers.
Drawing on the tragically famous episode of Charlie Hebdo magazine – how publication of cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad had led to the 2015 murder of most of its staff – he briefly showed an example of the cartoons.
Before doing so he recommended that those who feared being offended avert their eyes.
The next day one of his pupils – the 13-year-old girl – was asked by her father why she was not going to school.
She told him she had been disciplined because she dared to stand up to Mr Paty when he told Muslims to leave the class so he could show a naked picture of the prophet.
It was a triple lie.
Mr Paty had not told Muslims to leave the class. The girl had been disciplined, but not for the reason she said. She had not even been in the room on the day Mr Paty gave the lesson on freedom of speech.
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Thousands paid tribute to Samuel Paty after his murder
But with the Internet to send it on its way, the lie spread... and spread.
First the girl’s father – Brahim Chnina - made her repeat the claim on videos, which he posted on Facebook, naming the teacher.
Then, a local Islamist - Abdelhakim Sefrioui - created a 10-minute online video entitled “Islam and the prophet insulted in a public college.”
Within a couple of days the school was inundated with threats and messages of hate from around the world. Paty told colleagues that he was living through a difficult time because of the campaign against him.
Meanwhile, the denunciation had reached the attention of an 18-year-old Chechen refugee living in Rouen, 80km (50 miles) to the west.
Anzorov made an initial note on his telephone that read: “A teacher has shown his class a picture of the messenger of Allah naked.”
Anzorov then sought the help of two friends, who are now on trial.
One of them was allegedly present when he bought a knife in a Rouen shop. The other helped him buy two replica pistols on 16 October, the day of the attack, and then drove him to the school.
The four last defendants - including one woman - are people with whom Anzorov conversed on Snapchat and Twitter and who allegedly offered him encouragement.
The defendants admit their connection to the case, but they contest the charges of "terrorist association" or "complicity to commit terrorist murder".
Lawyers for the girl’s father and the Islamist preacher will argue that though they publicly condemned Mr Paty, they never called for his murder.
In a similar vein, lawyers for Anzorov’s friends – actual and online – will say they had no notion he planned a killing.
For the prosecution, context is key. Samuel Paty’s murder took place at a time of heightened awareness of the jihadist threat. In October 2020, Charlie Hebdo had just re-published some of the cartoons, to mark the start of a trial resulting from the original attack.
Divers have concentrated their search for missing bodies in garages and a multi-storey car park in the town of Aldaia
Spanish rescuers are focusing their search for missing people on underground garages and a multi-storey car park following last week's devastating floods in Valencia.
The death toll after a year's worth of rain fell in parts of the region last week now stands at 217.
A car park in the nearby town of Aldaia capable of holding thousands of vehicles, has become central to the search, but rescue teams have reportedly not yet found any bodies.
It comes as Spain's State Meteorological Agency (AEMET) placed part of the north-eastern Catalonia region on red alert for torrential rain, with its capital Barcelona experiencing flooding on Monday morning.
The car park at the Bonaire shopping centre in Aldaia was inundated during flash floods last week.
According to Spanish news agency Europa Press, police have confirmed that search teams did not locate any victims in the first 50 vehicles inspected at the site.
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Divers are searching a car park in Aldaia which was inundated by the flash floods
The storm caught many victims in their vehicles on roads and in underground spaces such as car parks, tunnels and garages where rescue operations are particularly difficult.
Objects were also thrown at Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez, who was quickly evacuated.
The Civil Guard has opened an investigation into the chaotic scenes, Interior Minister Fernando Grande-Marlaska told public broadcaster TVE.
He blamed "marginal groups" for instigating the violence where mud spattered the monarchs' face and clothes.
Video shows angry crowd throwing objects at Spanish king on Sunday
Local authorities in Valencia have extended travel restrictions for another two days to facilitate the work of the emergency services, cancelled school classes and urged people to work from home.
In Catalonia, train services have been suspended due to adverse weather conditions, while footage shared online appears to show vehicles submerged in floodwater on roads.
A video showed the woman sitting in her underwear on steps at Islamic Azad University before walking down a nearby street
Human rights activists have called on authorities in Iran to release a woman who was detained after removing her clothes at a university, in what they said was a protest against the compulsory hijab laws.
A video surfaced on social media on Saturday showing the woman in her underwear sitting on some steps and then walking calmly along a pavement at the Science and Research Branch of Islamic Azad University in Tehran.
In a second video, the woman appears to remove her underwear. Shortly afterwards, plainclothes agents are seen forcibly detaining her and pushing her into a car.
Azad University said the woman suffered from a “mental disorder” and had been taken to a “psychiatric hospital”.
Many Iranians on social media questioned the claim and portrayed her actions as part of the “Woman, Life, Freedom” movement that has seen many women publicly defy the laws requiring them to cover their hair and wear long, loose-fitting clothing.
More than 500 people were reportedly killed during nationwide protests that erupted two years ago after a Kurdish woman, Mahsa Amini, died in police custody after being detained for not wearing hijab “properly”.
It said the woman’s head hit the door or frame of the plainclothes agents’ car while she was being detained, causing it to bleed, and that she was taken to an undisclosed location.
Witness told BBC Persian that the woman entered their class at Azad University and began filming students. When the lecturer objected, she left, yelling, they said.
According to witnesses, the woman told the students: “I’ve come to save you.”
Iranian media meanwhile released a video of a man with his face blurred who claimed to be the woman’s ex-husband and asked the public not to share the video for the sake of her two children. BBC Persian has not been able to verify the man's claims.
“When I protested against mandatory hijab, after security forces arrested me, my family was pressured to declare me mentally ill,” said Canada-based women’s rights activist Azam Jangravi, who fled Iran after being sentenced to three years in prison for removing her headscarf during a protest in 2018.
“My family didn’t do it, but many families under pressure do, thinking it’s the best way to protect their loved ones. This is how the Islamic Republic tries to discredit women, by questioning their mental health,” she added.
Amnesty International said Iran “must immediately and unconditionally release the university student who was violently arrested”.
“Pending her release, authorities must protect her from torture and other ill-treatment, and ensure access to family and lawyer. Allegations of beatings and sexual violence against her during arrest need independent and impartial investigations. Those responsible must held to account,” it added.
Narges Mohammadi, an Iranian Nobel Peace Prize laureate who is currently imprisoned in Iran, issued a statement saying she was gravely concerned about the case.
“Women pay the price for defiance, but we do not bow down to force,” she said.
“The student who protested at the university turned her body - long weaponized as a tool of repression - into a symbol of dissent. I call for her freedom and an end to the harassment of women.”
There have been numerous incidents of self-harm and suicide attempts among migrants
Migrants stranded for years on the remote Indian Ocean island of Diego Garcia will be offered the right to come to the UK, under a government proposal.
Around 60 Sri Lankan Tamils have spent more than three years in a makeshift camp on the island, which hosts a secretive UK-US military base, after becoming the first people ever to file asylum claims there.
The government has previously opposed bringing the group to the UK and complex legal battles have been fought for years over their fate.
In a letter on Monday, government lawyers said that “following further consideration”, the government had proposed a “change of policy”.
Under this, “all families, children and those of the unaccompanied males who do not have criminal convictions, outstanding charges or investigations would be offered the opportunity to be transferred directly to the UK”.
It added that work on the offer was “ongoing” and a formal decision would be made within 48 hours. “Details will be provided as soon as possible,” it said.
In a phone call with one of the Tamils, an official said the decision to bring them to the UK was due to the “exceptional circumstances” of the island, adding that entry would be for “a short period of time”.
The Prime Minister’s Official Spokesperson told reporters at a daily news briefing in Downing Street that “the government inherited a deeply-troubling situation that remained unresolved under the previous administration when it came to migrants who had arrived at Diego Garcia. Diego Garcia had clearly never been a suitable long-term location for migrants”.
He added “the government has been working to find a solution that protects their welfare and the integrity of British territorial borders”.
Lawyers representing the Tamils described the move as a “very welcome step” in a “long battle for justice”.
“After three years living in inhumane conditions, having to fight various injustices in court on numerous occasions, His Majesty’s Government [HMG] has now decided that our clients should now come directly to the UK. We hope that HMG will now take urgent steps to give effect to this decision,” Simon Robinson of UK law firm Duncan Lewis told the BBC.
“It looks like a dream. I don’t know what to think,” one Tamil said after receiving a call from an official with the news.
The UK had previously offered some of the group a temporary move to Romania with the possibility of then coming to the UK. Others were offered financial incentives to return to Sri Lanka.
Under a separate deal last month, future migrants arriving on Biot before the arrangement with Mauritius comes into force will be transferred to the island of St Helena - another UK territory some 5,000 miles away.
In court on Monday, lawyers said three people with criminal convictions may be sent to the island of Montserrat - a British territory in the Caribbean - to serve their sentences.
During the visit, the migrants walked the court through military tents they have been living in, pointing out damp, tears in the canvas, droppings, and a rats’ nest above one of the beds.
Over the past three years, there have been multiple hunger strikes on the island, and numerous incidents of self-harm and suicide attempts after which some people have been transferred to Rwanda for medical care.
“For three years I have been caged. Now they are releasing me but I don’t know what to do. I feel a bit blank,” one man in Rwanda said.
“I am very happy because I am coming to the UK. I thought they would send me to some other country.”
The group includes 16 children. Most are awaiting final decisions on claims for international protection - which the United Nations says is akin to refugee status - or appealing against rejections. In total, eight have been granted international protection.
Venâncio Mondlane got 20% of the vote, but says he was the real winner
Mozambique opposition leader Venâncio Mondlane, the runner-up in last month's disputed presidential election, says he has escaped an assassination attempt in South Africa, where he sought refuge after challenging the results.
In a video posted to Facebook, Mondlane said he was in "mortal danger" after assassins had gone to his home to try to kill him.
Mondlane said he had to jump through the back door and run through a hair salon, while carrying his bags, accompanied by his wife and daughter.
He did not provide any evidence to back up his claim and the Mozambican authorities have not commented.
Daniel Chapo, the candidate of the ruling party Frelimo, was officially declared the winner with over 71% of the vote, as opposed to Mondlane's 20%.
Mondlane didn't specify exactly where the alleged assassination attempt had taken place.
In the video, he said he had been staying in the affluent Sandton neighbourhood in Johannesburg.
"I was with my wife and my daughter, running from one place to another," he said.
South Africa's foreign ministry told the AFP news agency they didn't even know Mondlane was in the country and that the matter should have been reported to the police.
The BBC reached out to South African police, but they didn't respond.
Mondlane went into hiding before the results were announced, claiming his home had been surrounded by members of the security forces.
He has called on Mozambicans to hold nationwide demonstrations against the election results, which are being challenged in court by the Podemos party which backed Mondlane.
The protests have led to violent clashes with the police and several people have been killed, with dozens injured.
The internet and social media have also been restricted.
A general strike called by Mondlane has continued, despite the prime minister's call for people to return to work.
Three children were reportedly shot dead by police in different parts of the capital Maputo on Monday, while eight people were reportedly killed in the northern province of Nampula over the weekend.
Two different Frelimo offices were reportedly attacked in Nampula, prompting the police to respond with tear gas, rubber bullets, and live ammunition, killing one person.
The demonstrators then set fire to the house allegedly belonging to a police officer accused of killing a protester.
Mondlane has been rallying people to come together for a "final march" in Maputo, on Thursday.
It is due to be the end of a seven-day protest he called last week.
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