The clampdown on illegal mining cut off food and water to hundreds of miners underground. At least 78 bodies were pulled from ...

With hundreds of thousands dead, a shortage of body bags and 1.7 million people displaced, the overwhelming devastation caused by the 2004 Boxing Day tsunami remains forever imprinted on the minds of ...

"The tsunami was the catalyst for me finding my purpose, that second chance I got," she said. The 53-year-old has now written ...

Areas on it include the east coast of Asia and the west coasts of America, South America and Africa. All the five ... It generated a local tsunami with waves of up to 50 feet and killed an ...

Each year since then, the Ocean Queen has stopped on the tsunami anniversary at the spot in Peraliya, a sleepy village some 90 kilometers south of the capital Colombo, to commemorate those killed.