"It was a catastrophe waiting to happen," Raymond Alcide Joseph told CNN from Washington shortly after a 7.0 earthquake leveled parts of his home country, cutting power and phone lines in the capital ...

A devastating 7.7 magnitude earthquake struck Southeast Asian country of Myanmar, leaving over 2,000 people dead, 3900 ...

Can anyone argue that the same country, which wastes no time sending emergency relief assistance to save the lives of people ...

Some survivors filmed their ordeal as they waited to be rescued, trapped in tiny pockets of air between slabs of broken ...

CNW/ - Today, Veterans Affairs Canada and the Department of National Defence, issued the following statement: "The earthquake left more than 200,000 people dead and destroyed or damaged most of the ...

Victims have been found to survive for more than two weeks trapped under rubble if they have access to water. However, search ...

Moving, tragic, surprising, inspiring, terrifying, shocking... This is a selection of images from our planet, over the past ...

In a country where justice is often elusive, Mario Joseph was a fearless crusader who didn’t care whether his opponent was ...

His high-profile cases included championing the rights of 5,000 victims of waterborne-cholera who blamed the United Nations for its introduction into Haiti after the 2010 earthquake, and winning ...