A British housewife could face the death penalty after being arrested over a €2m cocaine haul on a tropical island.

Buddhist monks chanted prayers this morning over the wreckage of a plane crash that killed 89 people on Thailand’s resort island of Phuket, including a 23-year-old Derry man.

An Indonesian appeals court has sentenced four Australian drug smugglers to death, even though prosecutors who filed the petition were only seeking life behind bars, a court official said.

Tearful parents searched today for missing children and soldiers dug through the debris of homes flattened by the second tsunami to hit Indonesia in as many years.

Tearful parents searched today for missing children and soldiers dug through the debris of homes flattened by the second tsunami to hit Indonesia in as many years.