Life terms for US rail-crash man

Judges have handed down 11 life terms to a man who parked his car on a Los Angeles railway line and watched as a packed commuter train smashed into it.

Eleven people died in the January 2005 crash, and Juan Manuel Alvarez, 29, was convicted of their murders.

Judge William Pounders labelled him a remorseless killer and said he would have passed a sentence of "forever" had it been possible