Holiday turns to tragedy as parents drown
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Â· Three Britons and German swept to deaths at beachÂ· Families were on half-term break at Portuguese resort
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Thousands of Europeans were holidaying in the tourist draws of southern Asia when the huge tidal waves slammed popular beaches and hotels, and early reports indicated some were dead and scores were missing in a ...
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AS each hour passes, anguish and despair mounts for relatives of a beloved Victorian family of four, missing in the ravaged Asian region hit by the tsunami.
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PINELLAS PARK, Fla.  - With their legal options  almost gone, the parents of a brain-damaged Florida woman began  a campaign of public protests and political pressure on  Wednesday to keep their daughter alive.
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Every parent must feel a tug of pained empathy for the agony of families who lost children in the catastrophic denouement of the school hostage crisis in the Russian town of Beslan last week.
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Sunday's tragedy in the Indian Ocean devastated local populations, but it also hit tourists hard.
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Family members Thursday mourned three children and the woman they say gave her own life in a failed attempt to save them as her minivan rolled down a hill and sank in a park pond.
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NEW BEDFORD, Mass., Dec. 21 -- Even by the hard-bitten standard of the livelihood they chose, it was a cruel time and place to be lost at sea, tossed in the heaving, frigid swells, a few days before Christmas.
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By Sian Powell  URGENT calls have been made to teach children water safety skills after a young boy drowned in a Nuneaton lake.
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Families across the world anxiously  sought news of loved ones on Monday after a tsunami crashed  into beaches and bars in some of Asia's most popular resorts,  killing thousands of people and stranding many more.
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Pyres of victims who were killed by tidal waves burn on the beach at Alappad, in the southern Indian state of Kerala, Wednesday, Dec. 29, 2004.
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A young widow and two family members were shot to death as they celebrated Thanksgiving, and two of her late husband's brothers were arrested, authorities said.
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Families throughout Europe are spending anxious hours desperate for news of loved ones after giant waves slammed into some of the world's most popular south Asian resorts at peak season, killing thousands of ...
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Europe is reeling from the waves, not just because of the ever-rising death toll but because of the growing realization that among the dead could likely be several thousand tourists who had traveled to southern Asia for the holidays.
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Families holidaying in Asia describe the effect of the worst earthquake in the region for 40 years.
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The tragedy of the tsunami's child victims
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Three British tourists and a German who drowned off the coast of Portugal's Algarve tourist region on Monday were trying to rescue their children from the sea, a police official said on Tuesday.