Civic workers have been ordered to kill packs of stray dogs that have been attacking tsunami survivors in some of the worst-hit areas of southern India, officials said today.

Hindus, Muslims, Buddhists and Christians make sense of great loss differently, writes Kenneth Woodward.

AS rotting bodies stack up and contaminate water supplies across Asia, fears grew that sickness will pile more misery on a region reeling two days on from its worst disaster in living memory.