Perry Township resident Samuel Jaquez turned 100 years old on Dec. 27. The U.S. military vet served in World War II and the Korean and Vietnam wars.

More than 200 Rohingya came ashore over the weekend in Indonesia's Aceh province, officials said on Monday (January 6), amid ...

More than 260 weak and hungry Rohingya refugees, mostly women and children, have landed in Indonesia in two boats.

The tsunami science world was small and mostly under the radar of mainstream media. There was plenty of interesting work ...

Pope Francis in his traditional Christmas message on Wednesday urged “all people of all nations” to find courage during this ...

On December 26th, 2004, a whopping 9.1 magnitude earthquake struck off the west coast of Indonesia’s island of Sumatra. In the aftermath of the quake, a massive tsunami was triggered, sending waves ...

On 26 December 2004, a magnitude 9.1 undersea earthquake struck 240km west of Sumatra, Indonesia, rupturing the greatest ...

fotoBERNAMA (2024) COPYRIGHT RESERVED When the tsunami struck Aceh, the territory was in the midst of a civil war between Gerakan Aceh Merdeka (GAM) and the Indonesian government. Security issues ...

People in Indonesia's Aceh area have been remembering the destruction wrought ... the peanut farmer who won the country's top ...

In minutes, the calm of a Boxing Day morning was ripped apart, the couple and their baby daughter swept away when their house ...

Exactly 20 years ago, a magnitude-9.1 earthquake occurred on Dec. 26 off the coast of Sumatra, Indonesia. The resulting ...

But the waves, possibly 30 metres high as they crashed into Banda Aceh, also led to peace after almost 30 years of war.