At 07.59am local time on Boxing Day ... early tsunami alert issued by the authorities and the Red Cross helped minimise loss of life. In the hours, days and weeks afterwards, an unprecedented local ...

Two decades after the 2004 tsunami devastated coastal regions around Asia, Tamara Davison travels to one of the areas that ...

A survivor of the 2004 Boxing Day tsunami has recalled the moment he was awoken by “screaming and shouting” – two decades on from one of the deadliest disasters ever recorded. Daniel Poole ...

The most horrific of the numbers: 275,000 people killed by that extraordinary tsunami, unleashed by the third most powerful earthquake ever measured. It was Boxing Day, 2004. Andrew Gissing was ...

National Geographic explains: “Though Northern Ireland celebrates Boxing Day, the Republic of Ireland to the south celebrates St. Stephen’s Day instead. And on December 26, pockets of people ...

She was on a diving holiday with her partner in the Sri Lankan coastal town of Hikkaduwa on Boxing Day 2004 when the country was devastated by a huge tsunami. Ms Mills-Porter, from Cofton Hackett ...

Tearful mourners across Asia have commemorated the 220,000 people who died two decades ago when a tsunami hit coastlines ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Twenty years on from the devastation of the Asian tsunami, I know first-hand that the resilience of the human spirit is something to ...

An elephant removes debris in the days after the devastating Boxing Day tsunami hit Banda Aceh, Indonesia.Credit: AP That shoved parts of the seafloor up by several metres along a 1200-kilometre ...