On 26 December 2004, Amber Owen, 28, from Milton Keynes, was on holiday in Phuket when a magnitude-9.1 earthquake struck ...

An inmate facing 11 felony charges at the Robert Presley Detention Center was pronounced dead in his cell, the Riverside ...

She was on a diving holiday with her partner in the Sri Lankan coastal town of Hikkaduwa on Boxing Day 2004 when the country ...

On Boxing Day 2004, an earthquake in the Indian Ocean near Indonesia set off a tsunami which killed almost 250,000 people. It ...

The 2004 disaster hit the Indian Ocean coastline leaving thousands of children without parents. Here, former travel agent ...

Boxing Day Tsunami caught much of Asia by surprise, but 14,000 kilometres away these scientists watched on in horror.

Elisabeth Zana thought her life was over after her daughter died in the 2004 tsunami. Instead she began helping a Thai school ...

A two-minute silence was observed across Sri Lanka today (December 26) from 9:25 a.m. to 9:27 a.m. to honor the memory ...

Dr Mahesh Gunasekara was working as director of the 200-bed Kanthale Hospital and looking forward to starting a new job with ...

Even though two decades have passed, survivors are still grieving the loved ones they lost to the giant wave that caused one of modern history's worst natural disasters.

John Metcalfe had been living in Thailand for two-and-a-half years when the devastating natural disaster hit 20 years ago ...

He said all he could see was "white water and chaos". "I leapt out of bed to the window to see a great wall of white water, ...