A mosque is the only building surviving from tsunami on December 26, 2004. The picture is taken on January 4, 2005.

Kerry sends message marking the 10th commemoration of Indian Ocean tsunami

REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, JAKARTA -- US Secretary of State John F Kerry admitted he never forgot hearing the news of the tsunami that struck in the Indian Ocean on December 26, 10 years ago. "The images were gut-wrenching: entire towns razed from Indonesia to Somalia; raging waters sweeping away people’s homes; hundreds of thousands killed and many more separated from their families," Kerry...

A hiker is lifted by a rescue helicopter of Japan Self-Defense Force (JSDF) during a rescue operation at Mt. Ontake, central Japan September 28, 2014.

At least 31 feared dead near peak of Japanese volcano

REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, TOKYO - Thirty-one people were presumed dead on Sunday near the peak of a Japanese volcano that erupted a day earlier, catching hundreds of hikers unawares as it belched out clouds of rock and ash. The deaths on Mount Ontake, 200 km (125 miles) west of Tokyo, were the first from a Japanese volcanic eruption since 1991. Police said...