Peru quake victims battle hunger, cold
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An unforgiving wind lashes Juan Escate as he huddles around a bonfire with his three children, chilling him as he ponders how to fulfill his wife's dying plea.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - An army of aid workers  raced on Tuesday to deliver food and water to millions of  tsunami victims and the United Nations warned a death toll of  150,000 would climb as more bodies are found and disease stalks  survivors.
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Hundreds of rescuers dug frantically Thursday to reach victims of an avalanche that swept down a Mexican mountainside and buried a bus carrying up to 60 passengers. Thirty-two bodies were recovered as hope waned of finding survivors.
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Hunger and grief stalked Indonesia&#39;s devastated Aceh province yesterday as officials tried to reach remote areas where tens of thousands were thought to have died
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Hunger stalks survivors of the tsunami in outlying villages of Indonesia, the United Nations said, as the death toll from the Indian Ocean disaster soared above 226,000.
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Rescue teams in helicopters searched Sunday for dozens of people missing in floods and landslides that cut a trail of destruction through small Andean towns and killed at least 37 people over the past few days.
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MUZAFFARABAD, Pakistan -- After a powerful earthquake struck Pakistan and India a year ago, one of the biggest fears was for the more than 3 million newly homeless facing the onset of the Himalayan winter.
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For Thanksgiving, Annie Johnston, her grandson and some neighbors made green bean casserole and stuffing and ate outside by flashlight. They had the meager leftovers for the next three days. They had hoped that by Christmas &#151; three months after back-to-back hurricanes hit &#151; life would be easier. But the days have only become harder for many poor families like Johnston's.
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Relief officials are working feverishly to deliver food, water and medical supplies to parts of southern Asia hard-hit by Sunday&#39;s earthquake and tsunami.
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International relief efforts  picked up on Tuesday for survivors of the earthquake that  killed more than 5,000 people on Indonesia&#039;s Java island, but  many victims complained that vital aid was not reaching them.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - Hunger and grief stalked  Indonesia's devastated Aceh province on Wednesday as officials  tried to reach remote areas where tens of thousands were  thought to have died from a massive earthquake and tsunami.
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A government flight that linked Peru's isolated jungle communities crashed in a storm, officials said, and at least five survivors among the 20 people on board were rescued Friday after helicopters overhead spotted a fire they had set
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SOLOK, Indonesia  - Aid began to flow on Wednesday to survivors of deadly earthquakes in Indonesia's West Sumatra as rescue teams searched frantically for victims who may still be trapped beneath the rubble of collapsed buildings.
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Driven from splintered trailers, roofless condos and powerless suburban homes, Hurricane Charley's hungry victims sweated through long lines Monday to find food, showers and drinking water three days after the storm left their lives in shambles.
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While Hardin County is thousands of miles from the beaches lining the rim of the Indian Ocean devastated by Sunday&#39;s tsunami, residents here can reach out to victims through relief groups such as the American Red Cross.
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GONAIVES, Haiti -- Hunger and thirst racked survivors Wednesday as Haiti dug mass graves for some of the 1,071 confirmed dead from Hurricane Jeanne.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - Hungry and sick survivors  of the Indian Ocean tsunami are waiting for aid in growing  desperation as a multinational aid operation tries to reach  remote towns devastated by the waves.