Disasters Emergency Committee (DEC)

The Disasters Emergency Committee (DEC) has launched an appeal for the children of Gaza. Call 0370 60 60 900 to donate.

Singer Myleene Klass launches the Disasters Emergency Committee appeal to help victims of Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines.

The UN envoy to Syria, Lakhdar Brahimi, tells Channel 4 News it is “desperately urgent” parties work together to end the war but admits he has not spoken directly to President Assad in three months.

The prime minister’s wife, Samantha Cameron expressed her shock and dismay at the stories Syrian refugees told her while she visited them in Lebanon.

The Disasters Emergency Committee has launched an appeal to help three million Syrian people who have been forced to flee their homes and are in urgent need of help. Watch the appeal here.

As the world’s newest country approaches its first anniversary as a nation, South Sudan struggles to cope with a refugee crisis that experienced aid workers say is the worst they have ever seen.

MoD tells 700 residents near Olympic site they will be safer with missiles on top of their east London building.

Alex Thomson returns to Ishinomaki’s Okawa primary school in Japan, where he finds harrowing reminders of the lives of the 74 children and teachers who died in the tsunami there eight months ago.

A 5.7 earthquake hits eastern Turkey, reportedly killing at least 3 people and causing at least 18 buildings to collapse, two weeks after a stronger quake killed over 600 people in the same province.

A group of international aid agencies is warning that relief efforts in flood-hit Pakistan, where millions of people have been affected, are under threat because of a lack of funds.

In the first interview with a western news organisation since the UN declared famine in Somalia, a spokesman for the al-Shabaab Islamist group tells Channel 4 News there is no famine, only drought.

More than one million children have been displaced by the disaster in east Africa, and one charity tells Channel 4 News the situation in Somalia is “definitely getting worse”.

The US gives $28 million in aid but says the money won’t be used in rebel-held famine regions, unless it receives assurances from militants. Channel 4 News talks to the head of the UN in Somalia.

Seven days after the DEC launched its East Africa drought appeal Britons have donated £15m but Channel 4 News asks one charity boss whether news events elsewhere have affected donations.

An aid worker in Somalia, the centre of the East Africa drought crisis which has hit 12m people, tells Channel 4 News he fears “death on an epic, unimaginable scale” if more is not done.