7 h. ago Former beauty queen remanded after allegedly threatening the 'mass killing' of school staff

Patricia Wagner, 38, is alleged to have posted images on social media warning teachers and class assistants would be 'terminated' and warned 'mass killing' is coming to them.

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36 h. ago Moment armed police find bodies of Luton triple killer Nicholas Prosper's family after wannabe school shooter murdered his mother, brother and sister

Astonishing footage from the Nicholas Prosper case shows a Bedfordshire Police response team bursting into a flat in Luton after gunshots were heard on September 13 last year.

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53 h. ago Indonesian rescuers search for missing students after school collapse kills 40

Indonesian rescuers have recovered over two dozen bodies over the weekend alone after a prayer hall at an Islamic boarding school collapsed five days ago

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3 d. ago Government shutdown to continue into next week as Senate vote fails to break bitter partisan deadlock: Live updates

Trump threatens mass layoffs as Republicans and Democrats appear nowhere close on a deal

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3 d. ago Closed for the weekend — Senate vote fails to break bitter partisan deadlock on government shutdown: Live updates

Trump threatens mass layoffs as Republicans and Democrats appear nowhere close on a deal

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4 d. ago Trump threatens mass layoffs and cuts to Democrat projects as another day of government shutdown passes: Live updates

Day two of the government shutdown draws to a close as federal jobs and projects are put in jeopardy

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4 d. ago Trump threatens mass layoffs and cuts to Democrat projects as government shutdown stalemate continues: Live updates

Trump said he was meeting with White House budget director Russ Vought to discuss agency cuts on day two of the government shutdown

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4 d. ago Government shutdown live updates: Trump threatens to cut Democrats’ ‘favorite projects’ amid impending mass layoffs

Trump said he would meet with OMB Director Russ Vought to discuss agency cuts on day two of the government shutdown

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5 d. ago As Trump threatens mass layoffs during government shutdown, agency begins using AI lawnmowers

Interior Department staff have been told to take their work devices home so they can monitor layoff notifications

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5 d. ago Vance uses false claims to pin shutdown blame on Democrats as White House warns of layoffs

Vice-president falsely says Democrats calling for billions for ‘healthcare for illegal aliens’ as funding deadlock continuesJD Vance, the US vice-president, used false claims to blame Democrats for the government shutdown as the White House warned that worker layoffs were imminent.Federal departments have been closing since midnight after a deadlocked Congress failed to pass a funding measure. The crisis has higher stakes than previous shutdowns, with Trump racing to slash government departments and threatening to turn furloughs into mass firings. Continue reading...

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6 d. ago Government shutdown live: Trump threatens mass layoffs after Senate fails to agree last

Republican funding bill fails in Congress on Tuesday evening, leading to the first government shutdown since Donald Trump’s first term in 2018

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6 d. ago US government shutdown live: Trump threatens mass layoffs after Senate fails to agree last

Republican funding bill fails in Congress on Tuesday evening

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7 d. ago Islamic school collapses killing at least three people, with dozens more missing

Searchers raced on Tuesday to rescue at least 38 people still believed trapped after the collapse of the school building that has already left three dead, authorities said.

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7 d. ago Indonesia school collapse: one dead, 65 buried under rubble as rescuers race to find survivors

Death toll expected to rise as instability of building in East Java town hampers rescue efforts At least one student has been killed, dozens injured and 65 presumed buried under rubble after a school building collapsed in Indonesia on Monday, with rescuers running oxygen and water to those who remained trapped more than 12 hours later.Rescue workers, police and soldiers digging through the night pulled out eight weak and injured survivors hours after the building at Al Khoziny Islamic boarding school in the East Java town of Sidoarjo collapsed while students were praying. Continue reading...

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8 d. ago Islamic school in Indonesia collapses killing at least 1 and injuring dozens more

Officials say a four-story prayer hall in an Islamic boarding school on Indonesia’s main island of Java has collapsed on dozens of pupils who were praying in it, killing at least one male student

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1 week ago Mother of tragic teenage girl killed in truck collision after struggles at £50,000

'Hardworking' teenager Georgia Scarff had been struggling to cope at £50,000-a-year Royal Hospital School in Holbrook, Suffolk, when she died, the hearing has been told.

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1 week ago Beauty queen faces jail after stripped of crown over explicit sex toy video

Suphanee Noinonthong, 27, was stripped of her title as Miss Grand Parachuap Khiri Khan 2026, just one day after winning the beauty pageant for stripping off online

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1 week ago Boarding school manager tells inquest she constantly questioned 'how did we miss this?' after struggling pupil was killed by truck

'Hardworking' teenager Georgia Scarff, 16, had been struggling to cope at £50,000-a-year Royal Hospital School in Holbrook, Suffolk, where she was on a 'watch list'.

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1 week ago Girl killed by lorry would 'rather harm herself' than return to boarding school

Georgia Scarff, who suffered anxiety attacks, was killed in April last year.

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1 week ago Mystery as beauty queen, 16, leaves dark room screaming before dropping dead

A 16-year-old girl was found dead at a construction site in Brazil last week after a night out with friends - and all of them had different stories about what happened

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