The US-run aid effort for Haiti is looking chillingly similar to the criminally slow reaction to Hurricane Katrina, writes Patrick Cockburn.

As doctors tend to her injured toddler, a Kiwi mother is grappling with the loss of her husband and two eldest daughters in the Haitian quake.

An Auckland teacher who was travelling to Haiti this week has not been heard from since the island nation's devastating earthquake.

Grieving relatives of the three NZ-Haitian family members killed in the Haiti earthquake say the family had always worked to help others.

The bodies of Emmanuel Rejouis and his New Zealand-born daughters Kofie-Jade and Zenzie have been found in the rubble of a quake-hit hotel in Haiti.

Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie have donated $1 million ($NZ1.3 million) to help the earthquake victims on the Caribbean island of Haiti.

A NZ-born mother and her injured daughter, 2, were safe in the Dominican Republic last night after escaping earthquake-shattered Haiti.

An NZ woman and her daughter have been evacuated from Haiti tonight. Two other children from the family remain unaccounted for.

Latest news on the devastating quake in Haiti which has killed thousands and left about a third of the Caribbean island's residents needing aid.

A New Zealand girl has been found alive but her father has died in the rubble of a collapsed hotel in quake-hit Haiti.

How to donate to the Haiti relief appeals, facts about Haiti

Photos of the damage left after earthquakes near the Solomon Islands caused a tsunami and landslides.

Landslides and a tsunami destroyed the homes of about one-third of the population on a Solomon Island but lives were likely spared as residents with memories of previous disasters fled quickly to higher ground, officials said Tuesday.