The annual food fight festival ''Els Enfarinats'' has left the Spanish town of Ibi covered in flour and egg shells.

The 70-year-old had suffered with the spasms for nine months, his wife says, and was already in hospital for hernia surgery.

The actress was a symbol of sexual liberation in the 1950s but became increasingly controversial after making homophobic and racist slurs.

Thousands of homes in parts of Finland, Sweden and Norway have been left without power.