News agency reports Garzón telling emergency services: ‘I hope there are no dead – they will be on my conscience. I want to die’
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Spain train crash: rail investigators recover ‘black boxes’
• Train driver Francisco José Garzón, 52, arrested
• Black box data crucial in finding out why train was speeding
• Seventy-eight killed in crash near Santiago de Compostela
Spanish train crash: automatic braking on notorious curve failed to engage
Sharp bend in track outside Santiago de Compostela known as ‘A Grandeira’ is supposed to be approached at just 80km/h
Spanish train crash: PM criticised over ‘cut and paste’ condolence message
Statement expressing grief for Santiago de Compostela crash victims includes unexpected reference to Chinese earthquake
Pope Francis’s judgment in question after priest named in gay sex scandal
Papal nunciate who lived openly with his male lover in Uruguay appointed by pope to senior job in the Vatican
Shirtsleeve time
For the head of a government meant to be living from day to day, Enrico Letta has some strikingly long-term plans
Nursultan Nazarbayev’s chum in Italy
Central Asian politics cast a shadow over Italy’s
Vatican freezes prelate’s bank accounts over smuggling claims
Prelate’s accounts frozen following accusations of involvement in plot to smuggle €20m (£17m) into Italy from Switzerland
Silvio Berlusconi trial date protest leads to parliamentary standstill
Protesters oppose decision by supreme court aimed at preventing the media tycoon from evading jail
Will Silvio Berlusconi be found guilty?
The media proprietor’s legal problems again cast a shadow over the Italian government