Police arrested two Britons and a Thai government official today for alleged extortion, money-laundering and illegal land deals on the popular resort island of Koh Samui.

FIVE men were charged in the slayings of eight people found on an isolated farm in Canada over the weekend, part of what police called an “internal cleansing” of a motorcycle gang.

Police investigating the murder of eight men found inside abandoned vehicles in a remote wooded area near Canada’s US border have swooped on a farmhouse a few miles down the road.