By wire and Web, Britons send word of disaster
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LONDON In messages to radio and television stations and news agencies back home, tourists from Britain described the tsunami destruction in Asia on Sunday.
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Reports say it took just one vessel to inflict the damage that brought down internet for 75 million people
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A mass e-mail purporting to be a plea for aid for victims of last month's tsunami is actually a vehicle for spreading a computer virus, according to Web security firm Sophos.
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The North is leading the way in embracing electronic communication.   A survey by ICM found that 30% of people in the region say the best way to get their attention is to send an e-newsletter to their inbox - the highest figure in the UK.
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Holidaymakers caught up in the south east Asian disaster speak of their terror, while relatives at home wait for news.
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From hardest-hit Sri Lanka to resort islands in Thailand, holidaymakers from Britain described the destruction caused when tidal waves triggered by a powerful earthquake off Indonesia hit their resorts, in messages to radio, television stations and news agencies back home.
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Hundreds are reported dead in Sri Lanka and many other countries are affected, from India to Indonesia. Readers of the BBC News website have been sending in their own experiences of the disaster.
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The BBC News website has received many appeals for missing persons following the Asia earthquake disaster. Can you help?
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STOCKHOLM  - Half a world away from the havoc of the tidal waves in Asia, Scandinavians desperate for information about loved ones gone missing while on holiday scoured the Internet for news amid reports that thousands of them may have perished.
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The family of a British civil engineer held hostage in Iraq appealed to Prime Minister Tony Blair to intervene to save his life, after grisly images of the beheading of a US hostage appeared on the Internet.
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ACTORS Ioan Gruffudd and Matthew Rhys came forward to support our efforts to boost tsunami relief yesterday, saying they were overwhelmed by the disaster.
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An intense rainfall has forced evacuations, threatened water supplies and caused expensive flood damage in parts of Britain, which struggled to recover Sunday.
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Useful Twitter feeds for people in Southern California. And useful lessons for the next disaster.
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A British man admitted Monday to sending hoax emails to friends and relatives of people missing since the Asian tsunami.
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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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A HEALTH scare over wireless internet systems has led to hundreds of Londoners disconnecting their systems.
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A total of 13 Britons have been confirmed dead in the tidal wave disaster that swept Asian coastlines, a Foreign Office spokeswoman said, although other reports put the figure at 16 with more missing.