Swiss group 'helped 22 Brits die'
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A Swiss group may have helped more British people bypass the UK ban on euthanasia than previously thought.
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The death toll in a helicopter crash near the Sierra Leone airport Sunday rose to 22, the majority of whom were Togo soccer fans, officials said Monday.
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Police have arrested 22 members of a suspected criminal Islamic extremist network thought to be involved in recruiting for jihad, or holy war, Munich police said.
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Five people, three of them ethnic Chinese, appeared in court charged in connection with the drowning deaths of at least 21 Chinese migrant workers in northwest England, last February.
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They had diverse backgrounds, coming from countries around the globe, but all shared youth and worked in medicine. They also had a common goal, authorities suspect: to bring havoc and death to the heart of Britain.
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The bodies of all 17 men who had been trapped underground after a mine explosion in southern Poland have been found, bringing the final death toll to 23, the mining company said Thursday.Comment
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Four Britons were confirmed dead after Asian countries were hit by tidal waves triggered by a massive earthquake, the Foreign Office said.
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Foreign Secretary Jack Straw said Monday that 159 Britons are thought to have been victims of the Asian tsunamis, in addition to the 40 British citizens confirmed as dead.
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Twenty-six Britons are confirmed dead after the Asian tsunami, with Thai authorities saying as many as 43 have died.
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Eight Britons are believed to have died in a plane crash in the Thai resort of Phuket, while three were injured, Foreign Secretary David Miliband said Tuesday.
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The full scale of the impact of the tsunami disaster on the United Kingdom was disclosed yesterday when the Foreign Office said that about 200 Britons were feared dead.
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The British government pledged 15 million pounds (21.3 million euros, 28.9 million dollars) for the aid effort to help survivors of the tidal waves which have devastated Asian coastlines.
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Forty Britons have died in the Indian Ocean tsunami disaster and 159 others were missing and "highly likely" to have died, Foreign Secretary Jack Straw said, suggesting the death toll could approach 200.
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Four Britons were confirmed dead after Asian countries were hit by massive tidal waves triggered by a earthquake, the Foreign Office said.
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Politics: 18 October 2004, Monday. The five Bulgarian nurses sentenced to death in Libya could only provisionally count on the support of the European officials, Switzerland's Neue Zuercher Zeitung reports.
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Police in the North have confirmed that a total of Â£22m was taken in the raid on the Northern Bank in Belfast on Monday. However, the gang may find it extremely difficult to dispose of the proceeds of the
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Britain's charity watchdog said Saturday it was examining claims that several suspects in the alleged plot to bring down trans-Atlantic jets were linked by their involvement with an aid group that raised money for victims of last year's devastating earthquake in Pakistan.