News Headlines - 03 February 2014

Student Kills 2 at Moscow School - NYTimes.com

A student opened fire in a high school in northern Moscow on Monday, killing a police officer and a teacher and holding two dozen other students hostage before being captured by the police, a spokesman for Russia’s Interior Ministry said.

Britain faces choice of saving town or country from floods, says agency chief | theguardian.com

Britain may have to choose whether it wants to save "town or country" from future flooding because it is too costly to defend both, the chairman of the Environment Agency said.
Lord Smith said "difficult choices" would have to be made over what to protect because "there is no bottomless purse" to pay for defences.

Ryanair reveals £28m LOSS after worst end of year results for five years | Mail Online

Ryanair has recorded a £28.7million loss in the last three months of 2013 despite its controversial boss promising to stop 'p****** off' its customers.
The Irish airline, Europe’s largest by passenger numbers, issued its first profit warnings in a decade last year on the back of weak winter bookings.

Britain's most tattooed man refused passport renewal - The Independent

Britain’s most heavily tattooed man has been denied a passport – but the decision has nothing to do with his extreme body art.
King of Ink Land King Body Art The Extreme Ink-Ite has instead been refused the ID renewal on the grounds that his name is not appropriate.

Philip Seymour Hoffman drugs death: Actor found in boxer shorts surrounded by heroin envelope - 3am & Mirror Online

Oscar winning actor Philip Seymour Hoffman was found dead in his boxer shorts 'surrounded by empty envelopes with heroin branding on them', it has been claimed.
Police found ten glassine envelopes, with two of them containing heroin while the others were empty - according to TMZ.