Baby girl brings cheer in tsunami-hit Andaman islands
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Indian officials celebrated a rare piece of good news in the tsunami-hit Andaman and Nicobar islands on Saturday -- the birth of a baby girl to a teenage mother from a threatened Stone Age tribe.
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New Delhi, Dec 29 (UNI) At least three moderate intensity quakes were recorded off the Andaman and Nicobar islands this morning, three days after the massive undersea earthquake near Indonesia released the killer tsunami.
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MOUNTAIN LAKES, N.J. -- The day after the tsunami barreled across Indian Ocean shores, Anushka Nadarajah felt a wave of emotion wash over her. "I saw a video of a young girl who had lost her parents," the 15-year-old said. "She was asking them to come back and find her. But they were probably never coming back."
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Description: NPR&#39;s Robert Siegel talks with Geeta Pandey of the BBC about the devastation caused by the tsunami in the remote Andaman and Nicobar Islands.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - Survivors in tsunami-hit  Aceh crowded battered mosques to pray during an Islamic  festival on Friday as aid workers found many toddlers in  Indonesia were likely among the 225,000 killed by the Indian  Ocean wave.
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A five-year-old girl from Derbyshire is thought to be the youngest British victim of the Sri Lanka tsunami disaster.
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MADRAS, India  - Wailing relatives gathered around  dozens of bodies on beaches in southern India Sunday after a  tsunami triggered by an earthquake in distant Indonesia killed  about 2,000 people.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - A lone tsunami survivor  has been rescued from a remote Indian island, officials said on  Saturday, a rare moment of hope in the Indian Ocean as nations  pledged to try to stop such a disaster happening again.
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Jenita Jeyarajah says she will kill a rooster, smash coconuts and shave her child's head to fulfill her vows to the gods if the infant dubbed "Baby 81" &#151; found amid bodies and rubble after the Indian Ocean Tsunami &#151; is proven to be hers.
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As dawn breaks over Sri Lanka's coast, dozens of parents come to the beach where huge waves seized their children a week ago. "They believe their kids are alive and the sea will return them &#151; one day," UNICEF chief Carol Bellamy said on Sunday, after touring this island country's tsunami-devastated shore.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - The new year began for  millions of tsunami survivors with grieving and trauma, but a  few of the luckier ones saw a ray of hope as the outside world  finally came to their rescue.
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A Sri Lankan baby found in the debris left by the tsunami is returned to his parents, after DNA tests confirmed he was their child.
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Authorities say every assistance will be offered to the Perth-based family whose baby daughter perished in a tsunami that devastated the Thai resort of Phuket.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - Signs grew on Thursday  that towns and villages on the battered shores of the Indian  Ocean were beginning to recover from the tsunami which all but  swept them off the map.
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Indian officials said on Tuesday at least 7,000 people were feared dead in the remote Andaman and Nicobar islands after a tsunami hit at the weekend.
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Wailing relatives gathered around dozens of bodies on beaches in southern India on Sunday after a tsunami triggered by an earthquake in distant Indonesia killed up to 3,000 people.
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PHUKET, Thailand -- A Swedish toddler was reunited with his weeping father in a Thai hospital yesterday, days after the 18-month-old was found sitting alone on a roadside in the aftermath of the tsunami disaster. The boy's mother is among some 5,000 people still missing in Thailand.