Scandinavia mourns quake victims
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Sweden, Finland and Norway hold a day of mourning for their hundreds of victims of the Asian tsunami.
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LONDON -- The photo of a young Swedish father sobbing in his hospital bed in Thailand after he was reunited with his 2-year-old son appeared in newspapers throughout Europe yesterday, symbolizing this continent's sense of loss and horror over southeast Asia's tsunamis.
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Thousands of European tourists in Asian beach resorts were listed dead or missing in the wake of the tidal waves that engulfed the region after an earthquake.
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STOCKHOLM -- People in Scandinavia and Germany, fond of viewing Asia as a winter refuge, faced up to the possibility that a tsunami had turned a tropical paradise into hell for hundreds of friends and loved ones.
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Sweden now seems likely to be the Western country hardest hit by the tsunamis that wrecked the southern Asian coastlines the day after Christmas and killed more than 100,000 people.
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Indonesia&#39;s Sumatra island  was hit by a series of aftershocks on Thursday after a powerful  earthquake toppled hundreds of buildings, killing at least 10  people and burying many others.
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For Sweden's prime minister, celebrating New Year's after the Asian tsunami felt "completely wrong." Paris, its gay heart heavy with the tragedy, draped black cloth along a favorite haunt for romantic reveling &#151; the Champs-Elysees. Elsewhere, prayers substituted for parties in the final minutes of 2004.
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Bouquets of flowers lined the stairs and walkway leading to the Embassy of the Republic of Indonesia on Wednesday as groups of people signed a condolence book and mourned the tens of thousands of lives lost to an earthquake and flooding.
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OJIYA, Japan  - Military helicopters evacuated earthquake victims from a wrecked village and traumatized residents huddled in shelters and salvaged belongings from flattened homes Sunday in the aftermath of a string of earthquakes in northern Japan that killed at least 16 people and injured a reported 900 others.
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Governments around the world, as well as non-profit organizations, are pledging support for victims of Sunday&#39;s massive earthquake and resulting tsunamis that have affected more than a million
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Colombo - The death toll from tsunamis unleashed by a massive earthquake off Indonesia on Sunday passed 4 050 with people reported killed in six countries in southern and southeastern Asia.
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Reverberations from Sunday's earthquake in southeast Asia are being felt around the world, as relatives anxiously wait for news from the devastated region.
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Relatives of those killed in a powerful earthquake sobbed and threw rose petals on graves Wednesday, while others began clearing rubble from their crumpled homes.
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Europeans observed three minutes silence Wednesday with mass tributes at airports, railway stations, supermarkets, factories and offices in memory of the tens of thousands who died in Asia's tsunami disaster.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - Western leaders paid  tribute to the victims of Asia's tsunami as they toured  stricken areas, where villagers were starting to rebuild homes,  even right beside the feared ocean.
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Nordic countries dispatched search teams and made public appeals for help to find some 2,000 Swedes, Danes, Finns and Norwegians missing in the aftermath of earthquake-driven tsunamis in south Asia.
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Europeans observed three minutes  silence on Wednesday with mass tributes at busy railway  stations, bustling stock exchanges, homes and offices in memory  of the tens of thousands who died in Asia's tsunami disaster.