A heavy downpour sent the throngs living beside Haiti's shattered national palace cowering under tarps early on Thursday (local time) as the rush of water made much of the camp of earthquake victims impassable - an ominous foretaste of the rainy season to some.
Dunedin will link with 130 cities around the world tomorrow in a unique international fundraising initiative for Haitian earthquake victims.
Former prime minister Helen Clark, head of the United Nations Development Programme, today said visiting Haiti just days after the massive earthquake devastated the capital was heartbreaking.
Ask any of the hundreds of thousands of earthquake victims living outdoors in Haiti's shattered capital and you're apt to get the same plea: "Give us a tent."
The Haitian judge deciding whether 10 US missionaries should face trial on charges of trying to take a busload of children out of the country said Thursday he will recommend that they be released provisionally while the investigation continues.
Angelina Jolie began two days of meetings with Haiti earthquake victims on Tuesday in her role as a goodwill ambassador for the U.N. refugee agency.
Haiti's government has declared the search and rescue phase for survivors of the earthquake over, the United Nations announced today, saying there is little hope of finding more people alive 11 days after much of the capital was reduced to rubble.
A medical team with equipment and supplies funded from Oamaru and its surrounding district could be operating in earthquake-devastated Haiti by the beginning of May, if $120,000 can be raised by then.
Workers are carving out mass graves on a hillside north of Haiti's capital, using earth-movers to bury 10,000 people in a single day even as relief workers warn that Haitians are still dying of injuries from the January 12 quake for lack of medical care.
French rescuers pulled a teenage girl - very dehydrated, with a broken left leg and moments from death - from the rubble of a home near the destroyed St. Gerard University today, a stunning recovery 15 days after an earthquake devastated the city.
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, the New Zealand Herald website reported.
More than $8000 was raised in donations for the disaster relief effort in Haiti by Queenstown residents, tourists and businesses last Friday.
American Red Cross officials in Washington say there is a waiting list of 1000 flights to land at Haiti's airport, hindering the delivery of relief supplies.
More than $3500 was raised in donations by generous Queenstown residents, businesses and visitors during the Rock 4 Haiti music festival in Queenstown yesterday.
Doctors skirted a bureaucratic logjam to save the life of three critically ill child victims of Haiti's earthquake on Sunday, flying them to US hospitals on a private jet to avoid a military suspension of medical evacuation flights.
A young British schoolboy has raised more than 100,000 ($NZ221,500) pounds Monday for Haiti's relief effort by cycling round his local park.
The Queenstown Rotary Club collected more than $10,000 during three days of fundraising for victims of the Haiti earthquake.
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said today she resents criticism of the US effort to help stricken Haiti and pledged to redouble efforts to help survivors of the January 12 earthquake.
The earthquake which has caused so much death, chaos and heartbreak in Haiti may well draw Oamaru missionary Robyn Couper back to the country she called home for 33 years. She talks to Sally Rae about her life there.
Former President Bill Clinton, now the UN special envoy to Haiti, says the country can be made into a better place than existed before the devastating earthquake struck.