Body from plane wreckage identified as footballer Sala – UK police

An aircraft with 189 people on board is believed to have sunk after crashing into the sea off Indonesia's island of Java on Monday (October 29), shortly after takeoff from the capital on its way to the country's tin-mining hub, officials said.

The migrants, including two children, were picked up at around 5am just a few kilometers off the French port of Boulogne. Authorities spotted the boat sailing with its lights off, making an unusual trajectory.

The UK is withdrawing patrol ships from overseas to deal with a surge in crossings of the English Channel. Opposition politicians accuse the government of pumping up the issue for political gain.

Hundreds of people have tried to cross the English Channel from France to the United Kingdom in recent weeks. The crossings have caused a headache for the UK government.

A body retrieved from the wreckage of a crashed plane in the English Channel has been formally identified as Cardiff City's Argentina-born soccer player Emiliano Sala, British police said in a statement on Thursday.

The coastguard said the eight migrant boats were found along Britain's southeast coast. A senior British minister said the situation was "alarming" amid concerns that warming weather could fuel more crossings.

British police found the bodies of 39 people inside a truck container believed to have come from Bulgaria at an industrial estate to the east of London on Wednesday British police found the bodies of 39 people inside a truck container believed to have come from Bulgaria at an industrial estate to the east of London on Wednesday.

One man has been killed and seven people are wounded after late-night stabbings in the center of Birmingham. Police are still investigating, but have said there is no sign the attack is "terror-related."

Britain's special forces have taken control of the Liberia-registered oil tanker after stowaways, discovered aboard, turned violent. Initial reports suggested the ship, which had traveled from Nigeria, had been hijacked.

UK authorities have detained a suspect over a bombing that killed 21 people in Birmingham in the mid-1970s. The attack came during violent resistance to British rule in Northern Ireland.

Aerial view of the area where the missing passenger jet is believed to have crashed off the coast of Indonesia's capital Jakarta and comments from Air Force assistant to the chief of staff. A Sriwijaya Air Boeing 737 crashed into the Java sea shortly after take off with 62 people on board.

The location of two black boxes from a crashed Indonesian jet has been pinpointed, Indonesia's military chief says, referring to cockpit voice and flight data recorders that could help explain why the aircraft went down with 62 people aboard.