Thousands of people were feared dead today after a powerful earthquake struck Haiti’s capital, leaving tens of thousands homeless and buried beneath rubble.

The cholera crisis in Zimbabwe has infected around 18,000 people and could get worse as heavy rains threaten to spread the deadly disease, aid workers said today.

THE UN said yesterday more than 100,000 Pakistani survivors of the region’s huge October 8 earthquake still have not received any form of aid, and a leading British charity warned of a health crisis from poor sanitation at squalid tent camps for victims.