Survivors face the collapse of their communities
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The first survivors from the coastal region of Meulaboh were airlifted yesterday to the provincial capital of Banda Aceh, where they
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TOKYO -- With a surfeit of the old and a shortage of the young, Japan is on course for a population collapse unlike any in human history.
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UK survivors in Phuket and nearby islands, in Thailand, realise how close they came to being killed by the tsunami .
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Their homes are in ruin, many have only the clothes they&#39;re wearing, yet those who took a direct hit from hurricane Ivan returned to their neighbourhoods Saturday determined to rebuild.
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Many displaced people got their first look last week at homes destroyed by renewed fighting.
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More than half the survivors still living in refugee camps since last year's killer South Asian earthquake can't go home because they don't have land to return to, according to a new U.N.-backed survey that underlines one of the last hurdles facing recovery efforts.
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RAMONA, California  - Sifting through the ash-covered rubble where her family's home stood one week ago, Nicole Booth combs the scorched remains of a life left behind in the wildfires that blanketed this Southern California town.
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Women in northern Sri Lanka who survived the tsunami need help to pick up the pieces, reports the BBC's Frances Harrison.
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MEDAN, Indonesia -- These are the lucky ones. Fate sent them to the crumbling wards of the Pirngadi General Hospital instead of to their graves. Here, where many victims with the most complicated injuries from the Dec. 26 tsunami were evacuated, survivors embark on daunting recoveries.
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You never know when disaster will strike.
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As evacuation orders come down, homeowners ask: What really matters? What can't be replaced?
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In Sri Lanka, lives must be restarted, houses rebuilt, families reconstituted and losses weighed against others' misfortune.
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BBC News talks to survivors of the Indian Ocean sea surges about the struggle to begin rebuilding their lives.
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Survivors are united in their desperate search for loved ones in Thailand, says the BBC's Kate McGeown.
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Bad weather, smashed infrastructure and logistical snarls have made it difficult to get food and medical supplies to survivors.
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In tsunami-ravaged Banda Aceh, Indonesia, survivors have a gritty determination to start over.
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All of the people killed, and many of the thousands left homeless, by this weekâs earthquake in Japan were older than 65, reflecting the rising vulnerability of one of the worldâs most rapidly aging societies.