The Britons who lost their lives
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Lincoln Abraham, 34, a City broker from Hampstead, north London, was on holiday on Phi Phi with friends.
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A mysterious death in London brings back bad memories--and disturbs the new dissidents who defend Russia's freedoms
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Officials investigate the plight of Britons left in legal limbo after their relatives went missing in the Asian tsunami.
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"They are traumatized because of the violence they face every day and they don't have the skills to deal with it"  It is a tragedy becoming too familiar for a country where gun crime is still relatively uncommon and where limits on gun ownership are strict _ an 11-year-old boy shot to death, allegedly by a hooded teenager on a BMX bicycle.Rhys Jones, a cherubic-faced boy who liked playing tag and video games, was in a pub's parking lot kicking a soccer ball around with friends Wednesday when two youths rode by and fired shots.Rhys died of a single bullet wound to the neck, the latest victim in a rising wave of youth violence that is sparking soul-searching about why some British children stray into lawlessness. Read more
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By CLAIRE SMITH  THREE young men drowned while paddling at a Lake District beauty spot at the weekend.   When one of the group got into difficulties, his two friends tried to help.
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Twelve Britons have been killed and many other British are feared to be among the thousands dead after a tsunami devastated popular tourist resorts across southern Asia, government officials say.
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Pan's Labyrinth was a favourite but lost our to The Lives Of Others.
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Authorities identified the second and third people to have died in the fires.
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The tragedy of the tsunami's child victims
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Six British armed forces personnel are feared dead after a helicopter crashed while on exercises in the Czech Republic. Reports suggest that a British Army Air Corps Lynx helicopter crashed near Brno in the
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Road casualty figures show a fall but there is controversy about their accuracy.
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Hundreds are reported dead in Sri Lanka and many other countries are affected, from India to Indonesia. Readers of the BBC News website have been sending in their own experiences of the disaster.
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The Asian tsunami disaster is now known to have claimed 40 British lives, with dozens more still unaccounted for.
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"I'm filled with sadness for the boys who never came home"  Queen Elizabeth II and former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher joined old warriors and widows of the fallen at a memorial service Thursday marking the 25th anniversary of the end of the Falkland Islands conflict.Four Harrier jets flew over the memorial chapel at Pangbourne College west of London as the queen arrived to mark the date when British forces accepted the surrender of the Argentine army, ending a 74-day occupation. Prime Minister Tony Blair also attended the service.The conflict, which followed Argentina's seizure of the islands on April 2, 1982, cost the lives of 255 British servicemen, many of them lost at sea, and more than 600 Argentines _ half of them in the sinking of the battleship General Belgrano. Read more
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Families of those killed or injured when a Glasgow factory blew up hear in detail how the tragedy unfolded.
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The Asian tsunami disaster is now known to have claimed 29 British lives, with dozens more Britons still missing.
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Here's the painful story of someone who did.