Australia's most successful Olympic campaigns. It was also a successful year for John Howard, who won his fourth election.

# To live daily in perpetual fear of the deadly consequences of something that may or may not happen and, anyway, may not affect one individually, is impossible if people are to remain sufficiently ...

Across south-east Asia, people marked the 20th anniversary on Boxing Day, gathering in prayer at mass-grave sites, in which ...

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

There is a long history of research experiments to generate earthquakes, tsunamis and climate disasters. As Partick J. Kiger wrote Between 1946 and 1958 the United States detonated 23 nuclear weapons ...

On the sombre twentieth anniversary of the Indian Ocean tsunami, a disaster that claimed over 230,000 lives across 14 nations ...

Best on the Box choice for December 27th… This ITV documentary examines, twenty years on, the 2004 Indian Ocean Boxing Day ...

That’s why the countries of the British commonwealth have set aside the day after Christmas as Boxing Day, and its purpose was to bring a bit of magic to those who could use it. So what is Boxing Day ...

People gather on the beach at the Ban Nam Khem Tsunami Memorial Park in the southern Thai province of Phang Nga on December ...

The tsunami was triggered by a 9.1-magnitude earthquake that struck off the west coast of North Sumatra, Indonesia, at 7.59 ...

Boxing Day, marks the 20th year since one of the world's most significant natural disasters, the Sumatra earthquake.