Shelter, fuel, food, medicine, power, news, workers — Nepal’s earthquake-hit capital was short on everything as its people searched for lost loved ones, sorted through rubble for their belongings and struggled to provide for their families’ needs.

Shell-shocked and sleeping in the streets, tens of thousands of Nepalese braced against terrifying aftershocks yesterday while digging for survivors in the devastation wrought a day earlier by a massive earthquake that ripped across this Himalayan nation and killed more than 2,500 people.

A powerful earthquake which struck Nepal today has killed at least 876 people across four countries.

Aid workers have described deserted streets and scenes of destruction in the Philippines as a typhoon started to work its way across the country.

IT BEGAN as a school project — but Molly Parmeter’s celebrity ‘style bible’ is a media sensation.

A strong aftershock has rattled the Solomon Islands, hampering relief efforts to tsunami-ravaged villages.

Tropical Storm Isaac swept across Haiti’s southern peninsula today, bringing flooding and at least three deaths while adding to the misery of a poor nation still trying to recover from the 2010 earthquake.

SOMALIA, already blighted by drought and famine, is at a “turning point” as conditions decline with hundreds of thousands more people likely to die in coming months, 20 aid agencies warned yesterday.

Irish people have donated €12m to help those hit by famine in the Horn of Africa.

VICTIMS of the Japanese earthquake, tsunami and snow blizzard are still being found by humanitarian groups and are receiving food, water and medical attention.

A SPREADING cholera outbreak in rural Haiti threatened to outpace aid groups as they stepped up efforts at the weekend hoping to keep the disease from reaching the squalid camps of earthquake survivors in Port-au-Prince.

A spreading cholera outbreak in rural Haiti threatened to outpace aid groups as they stepped up efforts hoping to keep the disease from reaching the squalid camps of earthquake survivors in Port-au-Prince.

NEXT week, world leaders will gather in New York for the 10th anniversary of the UN millennium development goals.

Pakistan is bracing itself for countrywide outbreaks of disease after the weeks of flooding damaged hospitals and clinics and turned tens of thousands of medical workers into refugees.

The death toll from massive floods in Pakistan has risen to 1,100 people, officials said today.

Rescue workers struggled today to save more than 27,000 people still trapped by massive flooding in Pakistan’s north-west that has killed over 900 people and destroyed thousands of homes, officials said.

MORE than €4 million of the €13m in funding promised to Haiti over the next three years has been distributed to aid organisations to help rebuild the devastated country.

Overseas development minister Peter Power will this week get first-hand accounts of Irish efforts to rebuild earthquake-hit Haiti, the Government said today.

A CORK mother-of-four who sponsors several African children has urged parents to support a special charity appeal to recruit 500 child sponsors and help transform an African community.

Two suicide bombers targeting army vehicles detonated explosives within seconds of each other in the Pakistani city of Lahore today, killing at least 39 people.

DIGICEL boss Denis O’Brien has been named as a goodwill ambassador for the earthquake-hit city of Port-au-Prince in Haiti.

More than €800,000 has been allocated to three Irish aid agencies working in Haiti.

UN officials said they are still far short of reaching all of the Haiti earthquake victims estimated to need food.

A second earthquake hit Haiti today shaking buildings and sending frightened people running into the streets.

Pushed to the far edge of desperation, earthquake-ravaged Haitians dumped decaying bodies into mass graves and begged for water and food amid fears that time is running out to avoid chaos and to rescue anyone still alive in the wreckage.

One of the most destructive storms in years extended its deadly path across Southeast Asia today crushing homes in Cambodia and Vietnam after submerging much of the Philippine capital Manila.

THOUSANDS of fearful civilians, many on foot or using donkey-pulled carts, streamed out of a conflict-ridden Pakistani valley yesterday as authorities briefly lifted a curfew. The army said it had killed scores of militants in the latest fighting.

Irish aid agencies today joined forces to appeal to the Government not to cut overseas aid in the upcoming mini budget.

Burma’s ruling junta has agreed to allow “all aid workers” into the country to help cyclone survivors, UN secretary-general Ban Ki-moon said today.

A senior UN envoy headed for Burma today to plead with its military junta to accept more international aid for cyclone survivors, amid mounting fears of starvation, especially among children.

Ordinary Burmese are increasingly stepping in to help the country’s cyclone victims in the face of the chaotic efforts of their government.

International aid agencies mustered everything from anti-snake venom kits to plastic roofing today, warning that a second wave of deaths would follow the Burma cyclone disaster unless the military regime let in more aid quickly.

The horror of the Burmese cyclone was brought home today by a harrowing account of the disaster seen through the eyes of a teenager.

The UN pleaded with Burma’s secretive government today to open its doors to foreign experts who could help up to two million cyclone victims facing disease and starvation.

A BURMA state radio station yesterday said close to 4,000 people were killed and nearly 3,000 others are unaccounted for in a single town after the devastating Tropical Cyclone Nargis swept through.

A Congolese airliner trying to take off with about 80 people aboard careened off a runway, bursting into flames and killing at least 21 people in a busy market neighbourhood.

A Congolese jetliner carrying around 85 people failed to take off from an airport today, crashing at high speed into a busy market neighbourhood at the end of the runway, officials said.

Almost a third of Irish adults would be uncomfortable working with someone who is HIV positive or has Aids, new research revealed today.

The rights of children all over the world will be marked later today in European Union House.

The death toll from cyclone Sidr which hit Bangladesh’s coast with winds of 150 mph has risen to at least 1,100.

Jamaicans headed inland and tourists fled the country as the powerful Hurricane Dean appeared poised to make a direct hit on the island after a deadly and destructive march across the eastern Caribbean.

INTERNATIONAL aid agencies warned yesterday that the humanitarian situation in war-torn Darfur was deteriorating as attacks on aid workers increased.

YESTERDAY’S other developments: The US and France were close to agreement on a UN Security Council resolution aimed at ending fighting between Israel and Hezbollah, the American ambassador said.

The Government and aid agencies called on the public today to give more generously to appeals for the humanitarian crisis in Lebanon.