Indonesia’s Health Ministry said today that more than 220,000 are dead or missing from the St Stephen's Day tsunami - much higher than its previous estimate of about 182,000 dead and missing.

Truck driver Mustafa Kamal had dreams that his five-year-old daughter survived the tsunami waves that smashed into Indonesia, and he spent the past four weeks searching for her in refugee camps.

Another earthquake and tsunami can be expected to strike the area of south Asia devastated on St Stephen's Day within the next 50 years, a British Government minister warned today.

A CARTOON in an Indonesian newspaper summed up what words and pictures struggled to convey.

The team appointed by the Government to visit the areas of south Asia affected by the St Stephen's Day tsunami is due to depart for the region later today.

Millions of people throughout Ireland and the rest of the European Union are due to observe a three-minute silence at 11am for the victims of the St Stephen's Day tsunami in the Indian Ocean.

LEADERS from countries devastated by the St Stephen's Day tsunami and major donor nations are gearing up for a major conference tomorrow to iron out problems in coordinating an unprecedented €1.5 billion global relief operation.