Bucharest nightclub fire: Romanian president suggests rules ignored

Image copyrightEPAImage captionPresident Klaus Iohannis visited the site of the fire on Saturday Romania's president has said safety regulations seem to have been ignored in a Bucharest nightclub where a fire killed 27 people on Friday night. Survivors say the fire started after a heavy metal band set off fireworks, causing the ceiling and a pillar to catch alight and producing heavy smoke. A...

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Sinai plane crash: No survivors on Russian airliner KGL9268

Image copyrightEPAImage captionImages of the downed plane were released by the office of Egypt's prime minister, who visited the site A Russian airliner has crashed in central Sinai killing all 224 people on board, Egyptian officials have said. The Airbus A-321 had just left the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh, bound for the Russian city of St Petersburg. Wreckage was found in the Hasana area...

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Marks and Spencer website leaks customers' details

Image copyrightMarks and SpencerImage captionPeople logging into M&S's website were able to see name and contact details for other users A fault with Marks and Spencer's website allowed customers to see each other's details when they logged into their own accounts. The British retailer suspended its site for two hours on Tuesday night to fix the problem. It said the glitch was the result...

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Pupil dies after school stabbing at Cults Academy

A 16-year-old pupil has died after he was stabbed at an Aberdeen school. Police are treating the death of the pupil - named locally as Bailey Gwynne - at Cults Academy as a murder inquiry. Officers said a fellow 16-year-old male pupil had been detained after the emergency services were called to the school at about 13:30. Ch Insp Graeme Mackie said: "This is a shocking and extraordinary incident...

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