Rescuers fight to reach remote areas; death toll could top 100,000
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The death toll from Sunday&#39;s Indian Ocean tsunami could top 100,000, and relief workers from around the world feared Wednesday
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Firefighters, volunteers and aircraft tackle forest blazes that have caused widespread death and destruction.
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Devastated coastal areas across Asia struggled Monday to prevent hunger and outbreaks of disease as dazed survivors searched desperately for the missing, one
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CARACAS, Venezuela  - Rescue workers struggled on  Saturday to reach remote villages in Venezuela's Andean  mountains cut off by torrential rains and landslides that have  killed more than 40 people in nearly a week.
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Doctors risk treacherous landing conditions to reach sick people in some of the most remote parts of the world's largest rainforest
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The Red Cross says the death toll from one of the worst tsunamis in history could top 100,000, as more bodies are found from India to Indonesia.
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As the world scrambled to the rescue, survivors fought over packs of noodles in quake-stricken Indonesian streets Wednesday while relief supplies piled up at the airport for lack of cars, gas or passable roads to move them. The official death toll across 12 countries soared to near 77,000 and the Red Cross predicted it could pass 100,000.
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More than 100 men are trapped and feared dead after a gas explosion at a coal mine in central China on Sunday. Dangerous carbon monoxide levels are hampering rescue efforts, but one official said it was impossible for anyone to have survived.
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Hunger and grief stalked Indonesia&#39;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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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - Tsunami survivors were  trying to rebuild their shattered lives on Friday as aid  agencies scrambled to reach some 5 million people affected by  the most wide-reaching natural disaster in living memory.
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Â·  Chaos as rescue teams rush to save villagers Â·  More than sixty now dead despite mass evacuation
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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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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - Asia's tsunami death toll  soared above 125,000 on Friday as millions struggled to find  food and clean water and the world mobilized for what is  shaping up to be the biggest relief effort in history.
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Two climbers still missing on Mount Hood may have been swept to their deaths over a treacherous cliff by howling winds of more than 100 mph after they left their injured companion behind in a snow cave to get help.
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At least 120 people are reported dead or missing in Indonesia, as rescuers try to reach victims of  landslides.
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Rescuers were battling to reach thousands of people trapped by floods and mudslides in southwest China as the death toll from some of the worst storms in years rose to 105 with another 83 missing.
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Tsunami survivors were trying to rebuild their shattered lives on Friday as aid agencies scrambled to reach some 5 million people affected by the most wide-reaching natural disaster in living memory.