Actress and UN goodwill ambassador Angelina Jolie has arrived in Haiti to meet with earthquake victims.

Even before the earthquake struck, Haiti had the highest rate of maternal and infant death, as well as the deaths of children under the age of five, of any country in the Western Hemisphere.

An ex-NBA star savages efforts to rebuild Haiti, blaming citizens for not doing more to protect themselves from disaster.

Marina Endicott witnessed a two-car collision that provided the starting point for Good to a Fault, winner of the Commonwealth Writers' Prize in the Canada and Caribbean region.

George Clooney's Hope for Haiti Now telethon has raised US$57 million (NZ$79 million) so far.

Lionel Richie and Quincy Jones are planning a 25th anniversary re-recording of charity single We Are The World.

TV3 correspondent Mike McRoberts wades in to his own battle about a reporter's role in a disaster zone.

If the joyous and spirited sounds on this album are anything to go by, the 60s and early 70s would have been a golden age to be partying on the Caribbean islands of Guadeloupe and Martinique.

American Black Hawk helicopters swooped down onto the grounds of the ruined presidential palace in Port-au-Prince yesterday to disgorge combat troops and humanitarian supplies.

Amid the glut of pop reggae at next weekend's Raggamuffin Festival come two veteran acts with righteous roots.

New Zealand would be open to sending police to help in Haiti if asked to, Prime Minister John Key says. UN chief Ban Ki-moon has requested 3500 extra troops and police.

Influential gang leaders who escaped from a heavily damaged prison during the Haiti's killer earthquake are starting to wreak havoc across Port-au Prince.

Musician Wyclef Jean has cancelled his performance at Raggamuffin 2010 in Rotorua on Saturday.

Amid the devastation, spirits in Haiti are lifted as remarkable stories of successful rescues continue to emerge.

The New Zealand mother who lost a husband and two daughters in the Haitian earthquake is "getting through hour by hour", say family members.

Grieving relatives of the three NZ-Haitian family members killed in the Haiti earthquake say the family had always worked to help others.

The bodies of Emmanuel Rejouis and his New Zealand-born daughters Kofie-Jade and Zenzie have been found in the rubble of a quake-hit hotel in Haiti.

Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie have donated $1 million ($NZ1.3 million) to help the earthquake victims on the Caribbean island of Haiti.

Tens of thousands of people are feared dead and millions are in need of emergency assistance after Haiti's catastrophic earthquake.

A NZ-born mother and her injured daughter, 2, were safe in the Dominican Republic last night after escaping earthquake-shattered Haiti.

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