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Quake rescue bid threatened by rain

05.10.09
HEAVY rain threatens to trigger more landslides, hamper evacuations and block aid to earthquake survivors on Sumatra. Remote areas were warned to expect two days of storms, worsening the plight of people made homeless by last week's disaster, which left thousands dead or homeless.... more

Tsunami bodies wash on to beaches of devastated islands

01.10.09
Latest: 'Truckloads of bodies' were washing up on beaches in Samoa and Tonga as islanders began recovering the tsunami's victims... more

Second powerful earthquake hampers rescue efforts

01.10.09
Second earthquake hits Indonesia hampering rescue efforts as it emerged thousands may have died in yesterday's quake... more

Tsunami: Fact File

30.09.09
On 29th September a powerful Pacific Ocean earthquake triggered giant tsunami waves that devastated areas of the Samoan Islands. Here is a more in depth look at tsunamis and their formation.... more

75 die and thousands trapped as huge quake hits Indonesia

30.09.09
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Two-year-old British boy killed in South Pacific tsunami

30.09.09
British boy of two swept from his parents' arms when a series of 20ft tsunamis battered South Pacific islands, killing around 120 people... more

Indonesians rush to glimpse boy who tops 19lb at birth

25.09.09
Crowds flock to an Indonesian hospital to glimpse the country's largest recorded baby - a 19.2lb boy born by Caesarean section to a diabetic mother... more

Morgan Stanley backing Barclays after its Houdini act impresses

11.08.09
Some City brokers still have issues about Barclays and the apparent ease with which it has escaped the fallout from the banking meltdown which engulfed its rivals... more

Orang-utan haven to be destroyed in forest clearance

19.05.09
Hundreds of acres of Indonesian forest used as a sanctuary for endangered orang-utans are to be cleared, environmental groups claimed... more

Warden tickets car pushed into disabled bay by hit-run driver

20.08.08
A motorist has been ordered to pay a £120 fine after a hit-and-run driver shunted his legally parked car into a disabled bay... more

My stomach is full but my mind is still empty

23.05.08
Things have to be just so if I am to write. It must be early morning and I must be in my dressing-gown - a dowdy, soft old thing of greenish-black or blackish green to which ten thousand dog hairs cling... more

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