By HANNA ARHIROVA and ELENA BECATOROS (Associated Press) KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — A barrage of more than 80 Russian missiles and a smaller number of exploding drones hit residential buildings and critical infrastructure across Ukraine on Thursday, killing six people and leaving hundreds of thousands without heat or electricity. The largest such attack in three weeks also put Europe’s largest […]

RICKY Killeen was sent to HMP Frankland for his part in a vicious machete attack. Brought up in surroundings that caused him to start idolising prison life, we look at the crimes that led to everything completely changing for him. Who is Ricky Killeen? Ricky Killeen was born in Newcastle. At an early age he moved to South Stanley in […]

A headteacher has suspended 47 pupils of a secondary school after they protested en masse against rules stopping them from using the toilet during lessons. Dozens of students at Parkside Community School in Chesterfield walked out of lessons on Friday (March 3) to protest the new rules. Students took to social media to call out the school’s toilet policy, with […]

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Key points Bespoke Development Group has applied to build a seven-storey apartment block in Brunswick’s Dods Street. Elisa Hill and Philippe Yardin say if the development proceeds they will only get two hours a day of sunlight in their backyard. The family have lodged an objection against the development application alongside 40 other residents. A family in Melbourne’s inner-north are […]

By DAVE SKRETTA (AP Basketball Writer) KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Texas Tech coach Mark Adams, who had been suspended recently for racially insensitive comments made toward one of his players, resigned shortly after the Red Raiders were eliminated from the Big 12 Tournament on Wednesday night. Second-year assistant Corey Williams had led the Red Raiders in their 78-62 loss […]

A bloke who lost his nose from taking too much cocaine now has to wear a prosthetic instead. Not giving his surname, Fraser, 49, has now joined doctors in warning about the dangers of the class-A drug. Fraser began taking the it recreationally but a change in his personal circumstances led to him using more regularly. READ MORE: Hunt for […]

A RUSSIAN billionaire who sold Harry and Meghan their US home in Montecito for £12 million has died in Moscow aged just 56. Sergey Grishin, known as the ‘Scarface Oligarch’, passed away on Monday in a Moscow hospital after a serious illness. His cause of death was given as “circulatory problems in his brain” which led to sepsis.  After slamming […]

Protesters hurl petrol bombs at police who respond with tear gas as tens of thousands demonstrate over Greek rail tragedy and call for PM to quit 57 people were killed and more than a dozen are in hospital after Feb. 28 crash  Protests are ongoing and rioters today threw petrol bombs outside parliament Greek police fired tear gas at firebomb-throwing […]