Saturday, 9 August 2014

Girl presumed dead in tsunami 10 years ago reunites with family

August 9

When the Indian Ocean tsunami hit a decade ago, an Indonesian family sifted through bodies believing one might have been their 4-year-old daughter, a search that finally ended this week. Raudhatul...

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China earthquake prompts debate on role of volunteers

August 9

Five days after an earthquake killed hundreds in southwestern China, a debate is swirling around the mob of volunteers who flooded into the disaster zone, demonstrating how the world's most-populous...

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21 more MH17 crash victims identified,

August 9

Dutch forensics experts have identified 21 more victims of flight MH17, the government said on Friday, while their colleagues at the crash site began arriving home from east Ukraine where fighting...

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