Confirmed toll of Britons rises to 28 with hundreds more missing
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The frantic search for hundreds of Britons missing following the tsunami continued yesterday as the official death toll rose to 28.
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The number of Britons killed or likely to have perished in the Asian tsunami has risen to 453, Tony Blair says.
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Several Britons are among a group of tourists missing after kidnap reports in Ethiopia, the UK government says.
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The death toll rose to 28 and more than 70 were wounded in heavy clashes between the US-Iraqi forces and insurgents in Iraq&#39;s northern town of Tall Afar.
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A total of 22,493 people have been  confirmed killed in Sri Lanka by a tsunami and the number is  rising, the government said on Wednesday, forecasting the toll  could pass the 30,000 mark.
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The human toll from the earthquake-spawned tsunamis that swamped an epic swath of South Asia climbed to 26,000 dead yesterday, and with tens of thousands still missing is bound to soar even higher.
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December 27, 2004 1700CET Updated December 27, 2004 2000CET-- As the death toll is still rising and thousands reported missing, Maltese authorities believe around 75 Maltese holidaymakers could be affected by ...
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At least 35 British nationals are now confirmed as having been killed in the Asian tsunami disaster, according to latest figures released by the Foreign Office.
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Floods unleashed by torrential rain have killed at least 118 people and left 86 missing in southwest China. Authorities yesterday called in thousands of army and navy personnel to help after five days of continual
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The death toll from last week&#39;s coal mine accident has increased to 122, with 26 people still missing, according to State Supervision Administration of Working Safety.
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The death toll from last week's gas explosion at a Chinese coal mine rises to 122, with 26 still missing.
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The death toll from Typhoon Tokage rose to 67 with 21 still missing, the worst toll from a typhoon in Japan in 25 years, officials said.
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The death toll from a methane blast at a  Siberian coal mine on Thursday has risen to 35 with three  people still missing, a spokeswoman for Russia&#39;s Emergencies  Ministry said.
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Rescuers recovered more bodies from flooded homes and mud-swamped villages on Saturday, raising the death total from Typhoon Durian to over 300, with up to another 300 people missing.
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JACK Straw, the Foreign Secretary, acknowledged last night that the toll of Britons believed to have perished in the Boxing Day tsunami was likely to rise above 200.
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The number of people in the UK who lost their homes rose to 27,000 in 2007 - the highest figure since 1999.
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Rescuers were anxious to discover the fate of 30,000 people unaccounted for in Andaman and Nicobar islands on Tuesday as the nationwide death toll from weekend tidal waves reached nearly 7,000.