Caribbean Island Revelers Mourn Victims
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Thousands of partygoers showed up for this sleepy island's annual New Year's Eve bash that is the talk of the Caribbean, swelling the population twentyfold. But this year the merriment came under the shadow of the Asian tsunami.
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Rescue teams converged on beaches and remote islands in search of the missing today as authorities reported that more than 430 people, including a number of foreign tourists, were killed and 4,100 injured when earthquake-spawned tidal waves devastated
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Authorities around the Asian region battered by the tragedy that killed more than 100,000 people scaled back or cancelled celebrations today.
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HAMBANTOTA, Sri Lanka -- For generations, this southern port town has heralded the year's passing with firecrackers and all-night celebrations. But as the sun set yesterday, the air was heavy with despair: Sri Lanka was mourning its tsunami victims.
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Hundreds of mourners attend the funerals of three Christian militants executed by the Indonesian authorities.
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Residents on a group of tiny British islands were tonight counting the cost of the ferocious hurricane roaring across the Caribbean.
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Caribbean leaders described the devastation that recent hurricanes had wrought on their countries in speeches to the U.N. General Assembly on Thursday, and asked for more help to clean up.
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The family of a mother and her two children who were murdered pay tribute to "the heart of their family."
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More than half a million Jamaicans fled their homes today as Hurricane Ivan bore down on the island with 150 mph winds. It left a trail of destruction across the Caribbean and the death toll of 23 was expected to rise.
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An island community is to gather to say goodbye to backpacker Karen Aim who was murdered in New Zealand.
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A century after the first New Year's Eve celebration in Times Square, thousands of revelers crowded the streets and sidewalks Friday to welcome 2005, even as the world mourned the devastation of the South Asian tsunami.
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Relatives of many of the 202 people killed when terrorist bombs ripped through nightclubs on Indonesia&#39;s Bali island two years ago have gathered at the attack site to remember the dead.
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Memorial services are being held to remember the 193 people who lost their lives in the Zeebrugge ferry disaster.
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Hundreds of mourners pay their last respects to three members of a family killed in a Perthshire car crash.
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On a cold, sunlit morning, mourners gathered to remember the murdered British hostage Ken Bigley. Among them were members of his family, a few friends and the two senior politicians who played
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Thousands of fans of South Africa's internationally acclaimed reggae star Lucky Dube paid their final respects at a funeral service Sunday and mourned his murder.
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PROVIDENCIALES, Turks &amp; Caicos Islands -- Hurricane Ivan dealt a mercifully glancing blow to Jamaica yesterday but immediately rebounded to a potent Category 5 storm and raged through open waters toward the Cayman Islands and Cuba. The death toll rose to 56.