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Friday, November 15, 2013

Wonderful Images

Terror of a typhoon

Survivors stand among debris and ruins of houses destroyed after Typhoon Haiyan battered Tacloban in the Philippines on Nov. 10. Haiyan, one of the most powerful storms to have ever made landfall, killed thousands of people and left survivors without food and shelter.

Image: School children walk on a road between fields covered with volcanic ash from the eruption of Sumatra's Mount Sinabung (© Binsar Bakkara/AP)


Two lives saved

A relative holds newly born baby Bea Joy as her mother, Emily Ortega, recuperates in a makeshift birthing clinic at the airport in typhoon-devastated Tacloban on Nov. 11. Ortega was in an evacuation center when the storm hit and had to swim and cling to a post to survive.

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