Facebook is stepping up its efforts to fight ebola by adding a button designed to make it easier for its users to donate to charities battling the disease.

Public donations to Irish aid agency Goal slumped 43% last year as its income tumbled by €12m.

President Barack Obama honoured the legacy of September 11 victims by personally tracing the trail of the terrorist attacks, proudly declaring that the decade since has proven “America does not give in to fear”.

TODAY we remember the 222,570 people who died as a result of the Haiti earthquake.

THE ballot was as crowded as the earthquake-ravaged capital itself, and a collapsed presidential palace the prize.

Foreign ministers and aid groups leading the Haiti earthquake effort held their first conference today on how to channel aid into a country that has lost much of its already poor infrastructure.

More than 1,100 EU citizens are among the missing in the Haiti earthquake, the European Commission said today.

Rescuers began a race against time to save the Haiti earthquake survivors today as a trickle of aid began arriving in the country.