Weather Tonight: 3°c Partly Cloudy Night Morning: 6°c Cloudy

News

RSS

British High Commission

Latest articles

British woman swept away by river

28.06.11
A British tourist is missing, feared drowned, after she was swept away in strong currents while swimming in north-east India... more

Commander who led SAS rescue is hero of Iraq war

28.02.11
Man who masterminded the covert SAS rescue operations across war-torn Libya is revealed as a British war hero ... more

Britons are confirmed dead as hopes fade of finding survivors in New Zealand

24.02.11
Two Britons are among the victims of the New Zealand earthquake, the Foreign Office said today as emergency workers in Christchurch gave up hope of finding anyone else alive under the rubble... more

Woman faked her own death in £2 million insurance con

12.01.11
London off-licence owner allegedly faked her own death in Pakistan in an attempt to claim more than £2 million from life insurance policies... more

Pakistan militants free kidnapped British film maker

09.09.10
British documentary film maker held hostage by a militant group in Pakistan’s tribal belt for more than five months is released... more

152 are killed as Airbus crashes into Pakistan forest in fog

28.07.10
Passenger plane crashed outside the Pakistani capital Islamabad killing all 152 people on board... more

London World Cup fans warned about Rustenburg’s HIV sex workers

11.06.10
The danger tomorrow for supporters at England’s World Cup opener is Aids, as local HIV-positive prostitutes plan ‘the mother of all welcoming parties’... more

Fatima Bhutto: Why I'm a public enemy in Pakistan

28.05.10
Bhutto, who addresses the Hay Festival on Monday, says corruption and assassination have stalked her family and dominate her country's politics. Her crime was to write about it... more

Carolyn McCall jets off... but it's not going to be easy

24.03.10
Business profile: Carolyn McCall has stunned the City by leaving Guardian Media and switching industries for easyJet... more

Reunited with his father, then kidnapped boy flies back to UK

18.03.10
British boy kidnapped in Pakistan flies home with his father after an emotional reunion following 13 days in captivity... more

Three arrested in Spain over Pakistan kidnap of British five-year-old boy

17.03.10
Police in Spain have arrested three people in connection with the kidnap of five-year-old Sahil Saeed in Pakistan... more

Kidnap boy is found but still questions over ransom money

16.03.10
Dramatic new details of the release of the British boy kidnapped in Pakistan were revealed... more

Pakistani police: Missing kidnapped boy 'not found'

11.03.10
Hopes that five-year-old British boy Sahil Saeed had been found dashed as police chief leading the investigation in Pakistan confirms the search is ongoing... more

Kidnap boy’s father returns from Pakistan without him

10.03.10
Father of a five-year-old British boy kidnapped in Pakistan defies police wishes and returns to Britain... more

Mother of British boy, 5, kidnapped by armed gang begs for his release

04.03.10
British boy kidnapped at gunpoint in Pakistan by an armed gang who tortured his family... more

Home Office worker ‘married his daughter so she could stay in UK’

18.11.09
Former Home Office worker under investigation for 'marrying' his daughter so she would be allowed to live in Britain... more

Search for 16 Britons missing on islands hit by tsunami

02.10.09
Search for as many as 16 missing Britons on South Pacific islands hit by a massive tsunami is underway... more

Two-year-old British boy killed in South Pacific tsunami

30.09.09
British boy of two swept from his parents' arms when a series of 20ft tsunamis battered South Pacific islands, killing around 120 people... more

Hostage Briton 'free today'

01.06.09
British hostage Matthew Maguire, seized in Nigeria's southern oil region nine months ago, may be freed within hours, his captors said... more

Andy Powell boost for the lacklustre Lions

01.06.09
Rugby union: Andy Powell is expected to be named in the Lions squad to take on the Golden Lions, just days after fearing his tour was over before it had started.... more

Kidnap doctor was forced into marriage

17.12.08
The London doctor held captive by her family in Bangladesh said she was forced into marrying a man against her wishes... more

Kidnapped doctor arrives back at Heathrow

16.12.08
The NHS doctor freed by the courts after being held captive by her family in Bangladesh, said she was "happy to be home" after arriving in the UK... more

He looked at me and showered the bar with bullets, says Briton

28.11.08
A British survivor of the Mumbai massacre described how he escaped almost certain death when heavily armed terrorists stormed a crowded café, firing randomly at cowering customers... more

£300m Briton shot dead in Mumbai siege

27.11.08
A British shipping tycoon has died after being gunned down by terrorists in a Mumbai hotel ... more

Life-support groom carried onto flight to UK

01.08.08
The British bridegroom shot on his Caribbean honeymoon is being flown home... more

More related topics: British High Commission and


Don't Miss