1.   Words like this touch fundamental insecurities in a nation founded two centuries ago by British convict exiles and reshaped since then by successive waves of immigration.

2.   A British convict who claims he accidentally killed a South African tourist testified Wednesday that he fled the scene in the mistaken belief that Singapore hanged all killers.

3.   A British convict who fled Singapore after killing a South African tourist testified Thursday that a troubled conscience brought him back a few days later.

4.   A British convict accused of dismembering three people in two countries told a court Tuesday he lacked the butcher skills.

5.   An escaped British convict who killed and dismembered a South African tourist was hanged Friday, becoming the first Westerner executed in Singapore for murder.

6.   But two centuries ago when Sydney was an outpost for exiled British convicts, governors had unlimited powers of life or death.

7.   Dick Melville said police have determined Sheila and Darin Damude traveled to Phuket with escaped British convict John Martin Scripps.

8.   Governors were all powerful two centuries ago when New South Wales was a colonial place of exile for thousands of British convicts.

9.   No plea was entered Tuesday by an escaped British convict who is accused of dismembering a South African tourist.

10.   Six more charges were filed Monday against an escaped British convict who was accused earlier of dismembering a South African tourist.