Jana vows to rise from the rubble
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ATHENS was hit by an earthquake named Fani Halkia yesterday and Jana Pittman was left crying in the rubble of her shattered dreams.
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TOKYO - Rescuers grappled through mud and rocks for a second day Thursday in the hope of finding a three-year-old girl trapped in a crushed car since Japanâs killer earthquake last weekend.
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A mother holds her child as she looks at the destruction caused by Sunday&#39;s tidal wave to her home in the coastal town of Kosgada in southern Sri Lanka, Tuesday, Dec. 28, 2004.
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KAMPUNG JIAS, Malaysia  - Deep in the heart of a Malaysian jungle, a preacher holds a meeting under the scorching midday sun, urging followers not to lose faith after their church was demolished by the government.
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Prime Minister Gordon Brown pledges that he will do everything in his power to help those hit by flooding.
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World leaders vowed on Thursday to work  more closely to help victims of the worst natural disaster in  living memory and experts warned more carnage from the Indian  Ocean tsunami may be uncovered and the death toll will climb.
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World leaders vowed on Thursday to work  together to help victims of the most wide-reaching natural  disaster in living memory as U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan  declared they were in a "race against time."
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From bricks to wood and plastic sheets, anything goes in the reconstruction of earthquake-hit Balakot, despite official plans to move the entire city 30 kilometres (19 miles) to the south.
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An Indian religious leader known as "the hugging saint" &#151; because she uses hugs as a gesture of blessing &#151; pledged &#36;22 million Monday to help survivors of last month's devastating tsunami.
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Dana Lakshmi just wants her life back the way it was. But all she has to rebuild it with are a couple of tin pots, a dog-eared Tamil history book and a single pink plastic rose.
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MANILA -- Maria Tamares constantly feared that the tiny, pitch-black crevice under tons of mud and logs would be her grave -- and that of her 3-year-old granddaughter and three others trapped for 10 days under storm-loosened rubble.
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Witness accounts after huge waves triggered by an earthquake devastated Asia.
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Zariefa Begum and her family have been living in a tin shack since a giant earthquake swallowed their home a year ago.
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Up to 20 people have been found still alive after being buried under the rubble of a building that collapsed 10 days ago in the devastated town of Real in the northern Philippines.
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Prime Minister Gordon Brown pledges he will do everything in his power to help those hit by flooding.
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Nepali Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba vowed on Friday to crush a deadly Maoist revolt in his poor Himalayan nation as giant neighbor India promised more military help to fight the leftist guerrillas.
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TRINCOMALEE, Sri Lanka, Dec. 28 -- For J.D. Vaz and M.Vasantna, the earthquake-driven waves that roared ashore without warning Sunday were a great leveler.