The 14-year-old girl was separated from her family during the 2004 Indian ocean tsunami.

Ireland is doubling its financial aid to the disaster-struck Philippines.

Ireland is doubling its financial aid to the disaster-struck Philippines.

The UK will deploy a Royal Navy warship and donate a total of £10m (€11.9m) to help the millions of people affected by the devastating typhoon in the Philippines, David Cameron has said.

HE’S right, the Bishop of Meath, for wanting to rescue the Catholic funeral from modern misconceptions of what it is meant to be.

A family’s survival of the 2004 tsunami has inspired Spain’s highest grossing film, says Pádraic Killeen

In nations around the Indian Ocean, thousands scrambled for higher ground after powerful quakes triggered fears of a disaster in a region all too familiar with the power of a tsunami.

Two massive earthquakes triggered back-to-back tsunami warnings for Indonesia today sending frightened people to high ground .

A GIRL who was swept away in the Indian Ocean tsunami seven years ago said that she broke down in tears this week after tracking down her parents, who had long lost hope of finding her alive.

DOZENS of young punk rock concert-goers had their heads shaved and body piercings confiscated after police in Indonesia said they were a threat to Islamic values.

Like the Kauai Coast, which provides Sean McNamara’s film with its stunning backdrop, life ebbs and flows, transforming from dead calm to raging storm at frightening speed.

IT took just minutes for the earthquake and tsunami to devastate Japan’s northeast. Rebuilding will take years — if it can be afforded.

Hawaii and other parts of the Pacific were braced for a destructive tsunami today caused by the massive Japanese earthquake.

A strong earthquake struck deep under the sea in eastern Indonesia today, but there were no immediate reports of damage or injuries, officials said.

Sirens have blared, parents grabbed their children and hundreds ran to emergency shelters in Indonesia as countries bordering the Indian Ocean conducted a test today of a warning system set up after the devastating 2004 tsunami.

A POWERFUL earthquake rocked western Indonesia yesterday, trapping thousands under collapsed buildings – including two hospitals – and triggering landslides.

A member of the Government’s Rapid Response Corps is being despatched to Georgia to help victims of the conflict with Russia.

TENS of thousands of people killed in last month’s Burmese cyclone may never be identified because their bodies have decomposed so badly and many ended up far from home, an aid organisation said yesterday.

US ACTOR-DIRECTOR Sean Penn, who this year is head of the Cannes festival jury, comes to the film extravaganza bringing his own romantic plot.

Rocker and activist Bono has been given a US honorary award for his humanitarian work in Africa.

Thai authorities today said they are being pressured by some foreign officials to release the remaining bodies of victims from a plane crash on the resort island of Phuket.

A plane carrying foreign tourists to one of Thailand's most popular resort islands crashed while landing in torrential rains today, killing at least 87 people and injuring 43, officials said.

Powerful earthquakes struck Indonesia for a third day today, terrorising thousands of people who were refusing to return to their homes in fear of tsunami and falling debris.

An Indonesian girl kisses her cat near her collapsed house in Lais, Bengkulu, Sumatra island, Indonesia, yesterday.

A series of powerful earthquakes jolted Indonesia in less than 24 hours, sending a 10-foot tsunami crashing to shore and damaging hundreds of houses as panicked residents fled to the hills.

A new crack team of humanitarian experts will be ready to be deployed to a disaster zone by the Autumn, the Government said today.

International aid trickled to survivors today after the earthquake and tsunami that devastated parts of the Solomon Islands.

Soldiers and police dug through piles of mud today, searching for an eight-year-old boy who was buried when a powerful earthquake killed 52 people in western Indonesia.

DARMI ALI lost his three daughters and wife to the 2004 tsunami, but the 44-year-old remarried and last week became a father again…of female triplets.

While Jade Goody lives it up in a five-star hotel during her trip to India, Hollywood actress Scarlett Johansson has been touring Indian slums to meet the country’s poor.

The death toll from the Indonesian tsunami rose to 659 after emergency workers reached a previously inaccessible area along Java island’s southern coast, the government said today.

Tearful parents searched today for missing children and soldiers dug through the debris of homes flattened by the second tsunami to hit Indonesia in as many years.

Tearful parents searched today for missing children and soldiers dug through the debris of homes flattened by the second tsunami to hit Indonesia in as many years.

A two-metre-high tsunami crashed into beach resorts and fishing villages on Indonesia’s Java island today, killing at least 86 people, leaving scores more missing and sending thousands fleeing to higher ground, witnesses, officials, and media reports said.

A two-metre-high tsunami crashed into beach resorts and fishing villages along Indonesia’s Java island today, killing at least 47 people, leaving scores missing and sending thousands fleeing to higher ground in terror, witnesses and officials said.

A powerful earthquake sent a two-metre tsunami crashing into beach resorts along Indonesia’s Java island today, killing about 20 people and causing extensive damage to hotels, restaurants and homes.

Legislation to pave the way for Irish troops to join EU battle groups is expected to be approved by the Cabinet tomorrow, it emerged tonight.

International relief poured into Indonesia’s earthquake disaster zone today, but for many of the estimated 647,000 displaced people, aid was not arriving quickly enough and healthcare remained patchy.

UN agencies, governments and aid organisations rushed emergency supplies to Indonesia today to lay the groundwork for a coordinated humanitarian response to this weekend’s deadly earthquake as the death toll hit 5,000.

The death toll in a powerful earthquake which hit central Indonesia rose to more than 4,000 today as exhausted and grieving survivors dug through their crumpled homes searching for clothes, food and valuables.

Thousands of exhausted and grieving survivors dug through their crumpled homes today searching for clothes, food and valuables after a powerful earthquake hit central Indonesia, killing more than 3,700.

A powerful earthquake flattened buildings in central Indonesia early today, killing at least 2,900 people and injuring thousands more in the country’s worst disaster since the 2004 tsunami.

A powerful earthquake flattened buildings in central Indonesia early today, killing at least 2,500 people and injuring thousands more in the country’s worst disaster since the 2004 tsunami.

PROGRESSIVE Democrat chief whip Liz O’Donnell has labelled as “a joke” the Government’s failure to introduce legislation to regulate the charity sector.