The latest football tragedy follows three similar disasters in South Africa, DR Congo and the Ivory Coast, in the last month.

BBC: News Online

Hundreds of people have attended the unveiling of a memorial to 13 RNLI crewmen who lost their lives in three lifeboat capsize disasters.

BBC: Lifeboat crewmen memorial unveiled in Fraserburgh

Excessive attention has been directed to hypothetical radiation dangers relative to the enormous scale of broader havoc wrought by those incredible once-in-three-century natural disasters.

FORBES: Media Hype Over Nuclear Energy Increases Anxiety And Confusion

After the Bali bomb police liaison officers were sent but Tobias says the first three he met had no experience of disasters.

BBC: Expert Disaster Team

BAE's Simon Shrouder estimates that pilotless aircraft could be used within three to five years to investigate weather systems or natural disasters, such as volcanic ash clouds.

BBC: The Jetstream unmanned aircraft

Benoit also talks about how he became a reluctant political activist three years before Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, and how those two disasters compelled him to help create Voice of the Wetlands in response to FEMA policies on the Gulf Coast.

NPR: Tab Benoit: One Foot in the Bayou

The Disasters Emergency Committee (DEC) said more than five million people need urgent humanitarian aid, with three million of those now homeless.

BBC: Syria crisis: UK's DEC appeal raises ?3.4m