Miami, Jan 23 (IANS/EFE) A group of 80 Haitian orphans waiting to be adopted landed Friday at Miami International Airport, where they where handed over by the authorities to their American adoptive parents.
WASHINGTON - The hundreds of thousands of people sleeping in the streets in the wake of a magnitude-7 earthquake could find homes in tent cities being planned by the Haitian government.
LOS ANGELES - The world's stars of studio and screen appeared Friday in the "Hope for Haiti" telethon to raise money to aid victims of last week's earthquake.
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