Thousands of US Marines were expected off the shore of Port-au-Prince today to help relief organisations get supplies to Haitian earthquake survivors.

Prayers of thanksgiving and cries for help rose from Haiti's huddled homeless, the sixth day of an epic humanitarian crisis that was straining the world's ability to respond and igniting flare-ups of violence amid the rubble of Port-au-Prince.

DRUMBEATS called the faithful to a Sunday Mass praising God amid a scene resembling the Apocalypse – a collapsed cathedral in a city cloaked with the smell of death, where aid is slow to reach survivors and rescue crews battle to pry anever-smaller number of the living from the ruins.

Drumbeats called the faithful to a Sunday Mass behind mounds of rubble and amid the few remaining walls of Port-au-Prince’s destroyed Roman Catholic cathedral to listen to a sermon in a scene resembling the Apocalypse.

Rescuers pulled a dehydrated but otherwise uninjured woman from the ruins of a luxury hotel in the Haitian capital early today, an event greeted with applause from onlookers witnessing rare good news in a city otherwise filled with corpses, rubble and desperation.

MEXICO’S chief epidemiologist accused the World Health Organisation of being slow to respond to the country’s warning about a health crisis that turned into a global swine flu scare and called for an investigation.

World health experts were today accused of initially ignoring the dangers of swine flu.

The first case of human-to-human transmission of swine flu was confirmed in Germany today.

Dead bodies could not cause outbreaks of disease, the Pan American Health Organisation said, in a bid to avert mass burials of tens of thousands of unidentified victims from the quake disaster in Asia and Africa.

RED BULL does not give you wings in the way that many people believe, scientists revealed yesterday.