Polish firefighters have blamed poor electrical wiring and lax security procedures at an Escape Room for a fire that killed five teenage girls and injured a man. The bodies of the 15-year-old victims were found on Friday in Koszalin, in northern Poland, after firefighters put out a blaze in an adjacent room. Asphyxiation is the […]
MOSCOW (AFP) – Russia’s space agency on Saturday (Jan 5) demanded an explanation after Nasa put off a planned visit to the United States by Russia’s controversial space chief. Mr Dmitry Rogozin, a firebrand nationalist politician known for his anti-Western rhetoric, was set to visit the US in February, but Nasa said on Friday that […]
There’s no doubt about it, the last 12 months have been tough for many of us. The housing crisis seems to be no closer to being solved than at any stage in the lifetime of this government, our health system continues to be based on the creakiest of foundations and the fallout from the cervical […]
A recording of the New Year’s Day conversation has been posted on Twitter by the North West Ambulance Service, with the caption “really though?!” In it, the operator for the ambulance service asks the man “is the patient breathing” to which he replies: “OK, please I’m just ringing because my partner has cheated on me.” […]
LYON (AFP) – The highest-profile Catholic cleric to be caught up in a paedophile scandal in France is to go on trial on Monday (Jan 7) charged with failing to report a priest who abused boy scouts in the 1980s and 90s. Cardinal Philippe Barbarin, the archbishop of Lyon, is to stand trial along with […]
ROME — Matteo Salvini likes spreading Nutella on his morning bread. He winds down with a bowl of Barilla pasta and a glass of Barolo wine. He heeds the words of wisdom inside the wrappers of Perugina Bacio chocolates. He drinks Moretti beer. Italy knows these things because Mr. Salvini, the country’s hard-line interior minister, […]
Medical tests have shown a patient treated in isolation at Sweden’s Uppsala University Hospital for suspected Ebola is not infected with the virus after all, authorities said on Friday. The patient, whose identity was not disclosed, was isolated and transferred to the hospital north of Stockholm after originally being admitted to the emergency ward of […]
Ron Easton, a former racing driver known as “Ton-Up Ron”, died in hospital on 2 November last year. His death came nine days after he was rescued from the roof of his house, in Bigbury-on-Sea, Devon, which he had scaled with a bucket of tools to adjust his TV aerial. Evidence indicated he had developed […]
Those taking part in the upcoming April event have vented their frustrations as the volunteers, who remain tethered to their runner throughout the 26-mile route, are not given finisher medals like regular entrants. Lizzie Tovey, 45, from Worcestershire, is visually impaired and is training for the run – her first ever full marathon. She said […]
Italian police are hunting for robbers who stole €2.3m (£2m; $2.6m) after trapping and ripping open a security van on a highway in the far south. The gang of four blocked off the van with two lorries on State Highway 96 near Bari, then fired into the air to intimidate the guards, local media say. […]