Desperate New Yorkers without food and warm clothing are defecating in their apartment hallways.

Pope also prayed that Catholic university rectors would be reinforced in their 'sense of belonging to the Church."

The three priests, including one now known as a martyr, offered spiritual comfort to fellow passengers on the doomed ship. They, along with 1500 others, perished in the icy Atlantic in 1912.

Erika Soria Molina, from Peru, is heralded as a heroine in her native country.

Photographed in the company of disgraced Capt Francesco Schettino, Domnica Cemortan comes clean about their relationship and the wreck of the Costa Concordia.

Angela Castellani and her husband, faced with death, considered throwing themselves into the sea. Angela called her mother, and the two prayed together before the end.

Cruise chaplain Fr Raffaele Mallena saw crewmembers rush to aid passengers on the sinking Costa Concordia. Thousands of passengers still in shelters.

Better disaster risk preparations may have helped avert casualties when tropical storm Washi slammed into the Philippines this month, a United Nations champion for disaster risk reduction said today.

It is time of the annual migration as elephants seek water and find none. Death on the savanna.

A tremor registering 5.6 on the Richter scale struck Turkey overnight. Over 100 people are missing and 7 are dead. An earthquake on Oct. 23 claimed over 600 lives.