Grieving parents return to sea's edge
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NAVALADY BEACH, Sri Lanka -- As dawn breaks over Sri Lanka's coast, dozens of parents come to the beach where huge waves seized their children a week ago.
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Four decades after it was abandoned, King Island holds an almost mystical pull for former inhabitants and their descendants, its crumbling homes still perched on stilts, clinging to the steep, rocky terrain.
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As the people of Beslan struggle with their grief, the schoolhouse where their children died has become a place of echoes and memories.
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Tourists from Switzerland have begun returning home from Thailand as the death toll from Sunday's tidal waves in southeast Asia continues to rise.
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Families across the world anxiously  sought news of loved ones on Monday after a tsunami crashed  into the beaches and bars of some of Asia's most popular  resorts, killing thousands of people and leaving hundreds of  thousands stranded.
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A Swedish toddler who was feared orphaned after giant waves struck southern Thailand was reunited with some of his relatives on Tuesday.
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Efforts to find two children who went missing with other family members during storms are to resume at first light.
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Volunteers will gather to help search for a boy whose sister, parents and grandfather died trying to escape flooding.
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Boat fishermen who survived last weekend sitting ashore may find a very different picture after the remnants of Hurricane Ivan. Some managed to get out on Boston Harbor and Nantucket Sound.
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Distraught relatives and friends of those missing after the most catastrophic tsunami on record are increasingly turning to the Internet to search for loved ones.
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Dozens of desperate parents came to the Thai hospital to see the unidentified two-year-old boy with red marks streaking his pale face, hoping to find their own child missing after massive tidal waves struck Thailand's coast. They all left disappointed.
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Pictures of the harrowing search for news of loved ones after the Indian Ocean sea surge disaster.
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Madeleine McCann's father says the return of his family to Britain without his missing daughter is heartbreaking but it does not mean they are abandoning the search for her.
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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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Twice a day, the tourists come. They smile -- striking poses on the severed porch just yards from where Robert Green says Ditty died with his two kids. Two years after Green lost everything -- family and possessions -- the gawkers are another reminder of just how far from normal his life is after Katrina.
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The parents of the sole survivor of a plane crash in Panama have been reunited with their daughter at the hospital where she is receiving treatment, a nurse said early Thursday.
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BALIK PULAU: Memories of the tsunami disaster returned to haunt residents of Pantai Pasir Panjang following the appearance of thousands of the jelly-like sea cucumbers on the beach here.