Bianca Jones and her pal Holly Bowles, both 19, fell ill after a night out in Vang Vieng, a Laos town popular with tourists.

A 35-year-old man who was shot after allegedly assaulting a police officer outside a Western Australian home yesterday has been charged.

The mass poisoning in Vang Vieng in northern Laos has killed at least six tourists and potentially injured scores of others.

A British backpacker who drank at the same Laos hostel as Australian victims Holly Bowles and Bianca Jones has revealed she ...