69 m. ago Moment terrified students hide while gunshots ring out as 'bullied ex pupil' picks off victims below 'in his old classroom' during Austrian school massacre that left ten dead and dozens injured

A chilling video circulating online shows the moment gunshots rang out around the BORG Dreierschuetzengasse high school campus today in the city of Graz/

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2 h. ago Ten people dead in attack at school in city of Graz in Austria, says mayor – Europe live

Elke Kahr, mayor of Graz, says seven students, one adult and attacker among dead after attack at schoolThe Austrian interior ministry has confirmed that several people have been killed in the attack on the school in Graz in the south of the country, without specifing the exact number, AP reported.Austria’s Kronen Zeitung noted that the incident took place close to the tenth anniversary of the 2015 Graz attack “which many Graz residents still remember today” in which three people died, and 36 were injured. Continue reading...

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2 h. ago Austria school shooting: 10 dead as 'bullied pupil' opens fire on classmates and teachers in Graz

A student reportedly opened fire in two classrooms shortly before 10am on Tuesday

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2 h. ago Austria school shooting latest: Ten dead after gunman opens fire at college in Graz

The suspected shooter is also dead, according to the mayor of Graz, while nearly 30 people are injured

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2 h. ago Partnership equips West Lothian students to turn up the heat with key green technology

The college has teamed up with Mitsubishi Electric to tackle a shortage of heat pump installers

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2 h. ago US universities are moving to the right. Will it help them escape Trump’s wrath?

Harvard, Columbia and other higher education institutes are facing funding cuts over their policies, but reform may not be the administration’s goalIn 2018, a teaching hospital at Harvard took down 30 portraits of distinguished doctors and researchers affiliated with the hospital. The portraits reinforced a perception that “white men are in charge”, a professor of medicine told the Boston Globe, and were relegated to less prominent areas of the hospital. Some students and faculty welcomed the decision, or were indifferent.Others were disconcerted. They saw the portraits’ removal as the impulsive reflex of a university whose political atmosphere, already liberal leaning, seemed to continually lurch further left. Continue reading...

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3 h. ago Support service for young victims of crime reaches 22 council areas

Glasgow sees highest number of referrals to Kibble’s pioneering SAFE Project

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3 h. ago RHS expert issues 'do not' warning to Brits if insect invasion plagues your garden

Plant health experts at the Royal Horticultural Society say warm spring weather led to an early surge in aphids

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3 h. ago Graz school shooting latest: Multiple people killed after gunman opens fire at Austrian college

Austrian police have launched a major operation after a shooting at a school in Graz

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3 h. ago Horror as student, 15, stabs female teaching assistant, 31, to death during bag search at French school

The 31-year-old teaching assistant was attacked and seriously wounded with a knife during a bag search outside of the Françoise Dolto secondary school in Nogent.

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3 h. ago Nine people dead in attack at school in city of Graz in Austria, says mayor – Europe live

Elke Kahr, mayor of Graz, says seven students and one adult among dead after attack at school, with ninth person dead understood to be the attackerThe Austrian interior ministry has confirmed that several people have been killed in the attack on the school in Graz in the south of the country, without specifing the exact number, AP reported.Austria’s Kronen Zeitung noted that the incident took place close to the tenth anniversary of the 2015 Graz attack “which many Graz residents still remember today” in which three people died, and 36 were injured. Continue reading...

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3 h. ago Horror as French student 'stabs teaching assistant to death during bag search'

A 14-year-old pupil is reported to have stabbed a teaching assistant, aged 31, outside Françoise Dolto secondary school in Nogent, France, with the woman dying from her injuries

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4 h. ago 'Arrogant' lawyer groped woman under 'Jingle my Bells' Xmas jumper as she 'invited it'

The woman was wearing a Christmas jumper that read 'jingle my bells' when Luckhurst-Matthews thrust his hand up her top and squeezed her breast in a five-second-long assault

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4 h. ago South Ayrshire Council hit by new leadership crisis as Chief Executive takes leave of absence

Mike Newall's duties at County Buildings are to be carried out by his deputy, Lyndsay McRoberts.

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4 h. ago Graz shooting UPDATES: Five feared dead as school evacuated by armed police

As many as five people, believed to be students and teachers, are believed to have died following the morning shootout at a school in Dreierschützengasse, Graz in southeastern Austria

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4 h. ago Five killed in school shooting as teacher barricades herself in class with students

Gunshots were heard inside the school at around 10am before a suspect was shot, according to local media, as the police are currently searching the building 'meticulously'

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5 h. ago Heartbreak as student dies at college sparking police probe into 'unexplained' death

The youngster, who has not been named, was found dead at Hartpury College in Gloucester on Friday.

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6 h. ago Gang steal £250,000 worth of luxury handbags after tunneling into designer boutique through a wall

The owner of Dress Cheshire has spoken of her devastation after the gang of three men broke into her store at New Road in Prestbury, Cheshire on Sunday night.

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8 h. ago Nazi guards shot prisoners for fun at Channel Islands camp, research says

SS troops killed inmates for target practice, according to account given in documentary Ghosts of AlderneyGuards at a prison camp on one of the Channel Islands entertained themselves at weekends by using prisoners for target practice, according to new evidence of Nazi atrocities committed there in the second world war.On Sundays, the SS would regularly pick about a dozen men incarcerated in Sylt, the camp they ran on Alderney, transporting them to a nearby light-gauge railway, where they tied them to tipper trucks and amused themselves by shooting them. Continue reading...

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9 h. ago AP PHOTOS: London's red foxes get a lifeline in The Fox Project

When red foxes are ill, injured or abandoned as cubs in south London and its leafy suburbs, The Fox Project is often there to help.

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