The feel of poverty was everywhere, on the naked land picked free of plants and trees by a starving population, in the water used for both drinking water and sewage, and in the soil people ate for food. ...more

February 7, 2009

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti - The 5-year-old teetered on broomstick legs - he weighed less than 20 pounds even after days of drinking enriched milk. Nearby, a 4-year-old girl hung from a strap attached to a scale, her wide eyes lifeless, her emaciated arms dangling weakly. ...more

November 21, 2008

Rescuers pulled four children alive Saturday from the rubble of a three-story Haitian school that collapsed on classrooms filled with students and teachers, killing at least 84 people. ...more

November 9, 2008

A hillside school where roughly 500 students crowded into several floors collapsed during classes on Friday, killing at least 30 people and injuring many more. Rescuers used bare hands to pull bleeding students from the wreckage. ...more

November 8, 2008

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti - Four tropical storms have wiped out most of Haiti's food crops and damaged irrigation systems and pumping stations, raising the specter of acute hunger for millions in the impoverished country. ...more

September 20, 2008

Hurricane Ike's deadly rampage through the Caribbean added to the mudslides and misery in Haiti before slamming into Cuba on Monday. ...more

September 9, 2008

Oil companies intensified preparations to evacuate some facilities as Hurricane Gustav made its way toward the U.S. Gulf of Mexico, becoming a potential threat to the region's extensive oil and natural gas production. ...more

August 27, 2008

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti - Haitians were told to prepare for evacuations as Tropical Storm Gustav formed quickly Monday in the Caribbean on a path to hit - as a hurricane - the country's denuded southern coast before moving on to Cuba, the Bahamas and possibly Florida. ...more

August 26, 2008

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti - Two babies were killed when a river surging with rain from Tropical Storm Fay toppled their crowded bus, a U.N. official said Monday, raising the storm's Caribbean death toll to at least 14. ...more

August 19, 2008

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti - Parliament on Thursday rejected the nomination of one of President Rene Preval's advisers as the next prime minister of Haiti, which has now gone two months with its No. 2 political post empty. ...more

June 13, 2008