Residents in cyclone-ravaged Vanuatu hunkered in emergency shelters for a second straight night Saturday after venturing out to find their homes damaged or blown away by the powerful storm, aid workers said. Packing winds of 270k/ph, Cyclone Pam tore through the tiny South Pacific archipelago early Saturday, leaving a trail of destruction and unconfirmed reports of dozens of deaths.
This Raw video from Isso Nihmei/YouTube briefly showns the aftermath of Cyclone Pam.
Cyclone Pam has been upgraded to the strongest storm category possible as it batters New Zealand's neighbours and heads south. Alice Clements from Unicef said conditions in the capital Port Vila were "getting wilder by the minute", as the storm begins to bear down on the island.
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Mustafa was standing outside his home in Aleppo when the jet flew over. He has no memory of what happened next but he regained consciousness many days later in Turkey.
Video capturing the tragic helicopter crash in Argentina has emerged. Footage: YouTube/El Sol Online
Owen Pomana and Bali Nine ringleader Andrew Chan perform an impromptu haka at the end of a Christmas Eve service.
Sara lives in a refugee camp in Lebanon. Her father was killed in Damascus in 2012. A photo album and a watch he gave her are all she now has to remember him by. Here she shares her memories of the dad she lost and loved:
Hussein was at home when the bombing started. It was a day he will never forget. Busy doing his schoolwork, he was waiting for his cousin to return home so that they could play. When he heard noises outside his window, he was curious but scared. By the time his cousin finally returned home from school, he was told that there were tanks in the playground. That's when he realised that he couldn't go back. Hussein now lives in a refugee camp in Lebanon. He goes to a school set up by World Vision. Watch his story here:
Zeinab is in the throes of puberty. She is 14 years old, Syrian, and a wife. Her childhood came to an abrupt end on New Year’s Eve when she married a distant relative who is ten years her senior.
Broadcaster Rachel Smalley finds she has a lot in common with struggling mothers who are caring for children in a conflict zone, but she worries about the future for little boys like Ali and Salah.
The New Zealand Herald and World Vision have launched The Forgotten Millions campaign to raise funds to meet an immense and urgent humanitarian need. With your help we can make a difference for the children and their families in desperate need throughout this region
The Herald and World Vision have launched a campaign to help the millions of children left homeless by war in Syria. Here are some of their stories.
Ahmed came to Lebanon with his parents two years ago. Last year, when relatives were killed in Syria, his parents returned for the funerals. They were unable to get back. He is desperate to see them. "The other boys tease me because I take my phone everywhere in case my mother calls. I just want to talk to her."
Since fleeing Syria, Adel and his family have lived at a refugee camp, His Dad was killed by a bomb. Adel is now the man of the house and looks after his sisters and earns money to care for his family. Because of this, he misses out on getting an education.
In the latest propaganda video from Islamic State, hostages are paraded in cages through the packed streets of Iraq to cheers and jeers. Footage: EllieNews
Tropical Cyclone Marcia slammed into the Queensland coast having been upgraded to a category five, the most severe. Hundreds of people were cowering in cyclone shelters although there were no immediate reports of significant damage. The tempest made landfall on the Capricorn coast near Shoalwater Bay, north of Yeppoon, a town of 16,000 people some 670 kilometres north of Brisbane.It is moving south towards Rockhampton, with the impact being felt over a wide area, and officials saying it could impact some 170,000 people in the region.
A University of Canterbury robot predicts Afghanistan will win the 2015 Cricket World Cup which opens in Christchurch on Saturday.
Footage from an in-car camera provided by a witness showed that a plane turned sideways and then grazed an elevated expressway before crashing in Taipei, Taiwan.
Human Rights Watch has released a report titled "Stop Reporting or We'll Kill Your Family" that says perpetrators of violence against journalists in Afghanistan are rarely punished, adding that the country's media freedom is under attack.
Palestinian radical islamists took part on Monday in a protest against a satirical cartoon of the Prophet Mohammed by French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo outside the French Cultural Centre in Gaza City.
New video has emerged of the Paris gunmen on the streets of the city as they carried out their attack on the Charlie Hebdo offices.
Nine-year-old boy scout appearing before the UK Parliament has accused the managers of a controversial high-speed rail project of being "really really bad" at maths. Here’s the video that got him to Parliament. Courtesy: YouTube/StopHS2
More than 100 people have turned out to a vigil at Aotea Square in downtown Auckland paying tribute to those killed in the French shooting this week.
Australia fire victim David Miller vows to rebuild his destroyed home and get on with life as bushfires continue to rage around the southern city of Adelaide.
A compilation of some of the best viral videos to hit the web in 2014. Courtesy: YouTube/Luc Bergeron
Footage has emerged of the hostages in the Sydney siege who were forced to film an Isis-style propaganda video in a plea for the gunman's demands to be meet.
Dozens of people are being held hostage by terrorists who stormed into a central Sydney cafe with a gun and forced crying women to hold a black Islamic flag up to the window.Video was supplied to the nzherald.co.nz by Holly Dove.
A little girl warmed up the usually drab Subway platform on the L train at Bedford in Williamsburg last month as she danced to music by Subway buskers and started a hoedown in the process.
A video showing two sisters in northern India hitting back at men who allegedly harassed them on a crowded bus has drawn huge attention in a country where hundreds of thousands of women silently endure sexual harassment daily.
A 12-year old boy died early Sunday morning after Cleveland police fire two shots as the boy pulled a fake weapon from his waistband.
A right-to-die advocacy group has issued new video footage of Brittany Maynard to mark what would have been her 30th birthday, three weeks after her death. In the video, recorded in August, Maynard calls on more states to enact legislation allowing terminally ill people to end life on their own terms. Maynard, terminally ill with brain cancer, grabbed the national spotlight for about a month after publicising that she and her husband moved to Portland so she could use Oregon's law to end her life on her own terms. Maynard ended her life on November 1. Footage:YouTube/CompassionChoices
A European probe has begun drilling into a comet to collect scientific data, but mission controllers said Friday that battery issues may make it impossible - at least for now - to access that information.