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Travel firm Thomas Cook is closing 21 stores across the country and cutting more than 300 jobs. It said 102 customer-facing roles would be axed as a result of the store closures, while a further 218 jobs would also go “following a review of the retail workforce”. It said holidaymakers continued to switch bookings from stores to online. In September, Thomas Cook said profits would be hit after the summer heatwave saw many take their holidays in the UK. The shop closures will take the number of Thomas Cook stores down to 566.

Facebook Inc said it has resolved a glitch that exposed passwords of millions of users stored in readable format within its internal systems to its employees. The passwords were accessible to as many as 20,000 Facebook employees and dated back as early as 2012, cyber security blog KrebsOnSecurity, which first reported the issue, said in its report. KrebsOnSecurity, citing a senior Facebook employee, said an internal investigation by the company so far indicates that between 200 million and 600 million Facebook users may have had their account passwords stored in plain text.

Struggling department store chain Debenhams says it is seeking a cash injection of up to £200m from existing lenders as it tries to fend off Sports Direct Mike Ashley. The move would allow it to turn down Mr Ashley’s offer of a £150m loan as part of a deal that would put him in charge. Lenders have until Thursday next week to approve the cash call, which the firm says will allow it to restructure. Debenhams said the move would “provide liquidity headroom” and “deliver stability” for customers and staff. The firm – which issued three profit warnings last year…

All trains to and from London’s Waterloo were cancelled this morning causing major disruption for commuters. The disruption was caused by over-running engineering work. All lines have now reopened, but due to a backlog in services normal timetables are not expected to resume until at least later on today. South West Rail apologised to travellers for the disruption. “Services are being delayed due to over-running engineering work, sorry for the inconvenience this causes you this morning.”

EU leaders have granted Theresa May’s request to delay Brexit, giving the UK a two-tier extension. After crunch talks at a summit in Brussels that ran late into the night, the premiers formally announced 29 March 2019 should be scrapped as the date Britain will leave the EU. They softened the immediate threat of a no-deal divorce by offering a delay until 22 May if MPs pass the prime minister’s Brexit deal by the end of next week.

Three people have been killed following a shooting on a tram in the central Dutch city of Utrecht, the city’s mayor says. Nine others were injured in the incident, which police say appears to be a terrorist attack. Police are looking for a 37-year-old Turkish man named as Gokmen Tanis and have warned people not to approach him. Schools have closed and security has been increased while counter-terrorism police work to find the gunman. The tram attack happened at about 10:45 local time (09:45 GMT) and one witness told local media that “a man started shooting wildly”.

Nigel Farage, the politician who probably did more than anyone else to force Britain’s referendum on membership of the European Union, on Saturday joined protesters at the start of a 270-mile march over what they call a betrayal of the Brexit vote. The march comes after another tumultuous week for Prime Minister Theresa May in which parliament overwhelmingly rejected her Withdrawal deal for a second time and lawmakers voted to seek a delay in Britain’s exit from the EU. The march, which began with about 100 people, is due to end at parliament on March 29, the day the United…

Tesla unveiled its Model Y electric sports utility vehicle on Thursday (March 14) in California, promising a much-awaited crossover. Chief Executive Elon Musk said the compact SUV, built on the same platform as the Model 3, would first debut in a long-range version with a range of 300 miles (482 km) priced at $47,000. A standard version, to be available sometime in 2021, would cost $39,000, with a 230-mile range. The vehicles can be configured to include 7 seats for an additional $3,000. After the event, Tesla’s website included a page to “design and order” the more expensive, long range…

NASA astronauts Nick Hague and Christina Hammock Koch, and Alexey Ovchinin of the Russian space agency Roscosmos, arrived aboard a Soyuz spacecraft for a mission to the International Space Station. The crew had left via a Russian-made Soyuz rocket from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan earlier in the day. Hague and Ovchinin were originally meant to launch to the ISS in October, but their mission was aborted; an investigation showed then that the abortive launch was caused by a sensor damaged during the rocket’s assembly at the cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. The new crew joins Anne McClain of NASA, David Saint-Jacques…

British MPs voted overwhelmingly, to seek a delay in Britain’s exit from the European Union, setting the stage for Prime Minister Theresa May to renew efforts to get her withdrawal deal approved by parliament next week. Lawmakers approved by 412 votes to 202 a statement setting out the option to request a short delay if a Brexit deal can be agreed by March 20 — or a longer delay if no deal can be agreed in time. Just 15 days before Britain is due to leave the European Union, May is using the threat of a long delay to push…