Three boys were killed and their parents were injured in an attack in Thailand’s insurgency-plagued south.

Forensics experts in Thailand struggled to identify charred corpses while 26 victims were still receiving emergency medical care today following a New Year’s Eve fire in a packed Bangkok nightclub.

Grieving families prayed for the spirits of their loved ones today while police probed for the cause of a fire that ravaged a Bangkok nightclub, killing about 60 New Year’s Eve partygoers.

AN Austrian teenager who spent eight years in a dingy underground cell until her dramatic escape last week has defended her captor as “part of my life”, insisting that she didn’t miss anything during her long ordeal.

Investigators trying to identify the killer of a British woman found murdered on a beach in southern Thailand today started taking DNA samples from fisherman on boats near the beach where her mobile phone was found.