A British graduate blamed for triggering an earthquake by posing naked and allegedly urinating on a sacred mountain knows what she did was “stupid and disrespectful and is very sorry for the offence that she has caused”, her father said.

A British graduate blamed for triggering an earthquake by posing naked on a sacred mountain knows what she did was “stupid and disrespectful and is very sorry for the offence that she has caused”, her father said today.

Boulders “the size of cars” roared down the crowded slopes of Malaysia’s Mount Kinabalu after its earthquake, a witness said, as authorities yesterday raised the death toll in the disaster to 16.

A Malaysian state plans to ban shark fishing in a bid to bolster tourism and conserve a species hunted mainly for fins which are used to create a culinary delicacy, an official said today.