Rescuers to issue cash plea to PM
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Mountain rescue teams will make an appeal for funding when they meet Tony Blair at Downing Street later.
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MPs urge the top 100 UK firms to donate a day's profits to help victims of the collapsed Farepak Christmas savings scheme.
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Organisers of a tsunami relief collection for Sri Lanka appeal for help with transport  after overwhelming donations arrive.
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Britain's finance minister Alistair Darling has asked Goldman Sachs to put together a financing package in a last-ditch bid to rescue the ailing bank Northern Rock.
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The government will probably end up giving hundreds of millions of pounds in aid to victims of the Asian tsunamis, Prime Minister Tony Blair says.
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MPs urge  Britain's top 100 firms to donate a days profits to the rescue fund for victims of the collapsed Farepak Christmas savings scheme.
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The Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU) has called for Prime Minister John Howard to ensure James Hardie fairly compensates asbestos victims.
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The family of a British hostage  threatened with execution in Iraq made a desperate appeal to  Prime Minister Tony Blair on Tuesday to meet kidnappers'  demands and save his life.
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The government's disaster relief manager sought on Sunday to assure people in Florida that federal aid is in place to help with recovery efforts from the latest hurricane bearing down on the state.
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BAGHDAD: A chained British hostage in Iraq begged Tony Blair for help yesterday, cranking up the emotional pressure on the prime minister as Italians celebrated the release of two women aid workers after paying a ransom.
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Lebanese PM Fouad Siniora appeals for help at a donors' meeting to raise money for his country's recovery.
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SRK, Rani Mukherjee, Karan Johar and Preity Zinta donated Rs 1.15 crore to the PM's Relief Fund for tsunami-hit victims yesterday in New Delhi.
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Iraq&#39;s Deputy Prime Minister pleaded with donors today to fulfill pledges of aid for the reconstruction of his war-ravaged nation.
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London - Prime Minister Tony Blair is doing &quot;everything he possibly can&quot; to save the British engineer kidnapped in Iraq, Blair&#39;s deputy said on Tuesday as the hostage&#39;s family took encouragement from an offer of help by Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat.
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British relief organisations have been swamped with cash following the December 26 tsunamis and intend to spend part of the money on alleviating other disasters, The Times reported.
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Victims of previous financial collapses call on government to extend Northern Rock pledge.
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Downing Street says more help being looked at 'as matter of urgency'.