Acehnese stoked over a different kind of wave - for surfing
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A new generation is taking to the waters off Aceh as the province recovers from its tsunami.
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Indonesians encountered on the devastated streets of Banda Aceh have developed a new greeting since foreigners began flooding in to help them recover from the tsunami that surged into northern Sumatra 11 days ago.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - Markets reopened,  fishermen got new boats and the sea even got a cleanup as  people chipped away at the endless task of undoing the  tsunami's damage.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - The massive cleanup after  last month's killer earthquake and tsunami paused on Friday as  survivors crowded mosques in Indonesia's ravaged Aceh province  for one of the most important Islamic festivals of the year.
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SINGAPORE A giant water spout was spotted off the coast of Singapore yesterday. Television stations were inundated with calls from people thinking they were seeing a tornado.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - Angry residents in Indonesia's Aceh have disabled a tsunami warning system after a false alarm spread panic in a province still traumatized by the deadly 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, an official said on Thursday.
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The BBC's Rachel Harvey meets a fisherman in the Indonesian city of Banda Aceh who survived the tsunami.
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MINNEAPOLIS - Rina Sands spent Monday waiting to hear any news from her family living in the Aceh province on Indonesia&#39;s Sumatra island.
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Five days after an undersea earthquake 160 miles south of here triggered a huge tsunami, Banda Aceh's little airport has begun to hum with the arrivals of C-130 Hercules transport planes bringing in relief supplies. But their numbers seemed nowhere near commensurate with the sweep of the disaster in northern Sumatra.
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Water depths in parts of the Straits of Malacca, one of the world's busiest shipping channels off the coast of Sumatra, reached about 4,000 feet before last month's tsunami. Now, reports are coming in of just 100 feet &#151; too dangerous for shipping, if proved true.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - In the first festivities  in ravaged Banda Aceh since the Dec. 26 tsunami, an Acehnese  couple threw a marriage reception Sunday, finally celebrating a  wedding that was interrupted by the killer waves.
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The waves have been  nicknamed Cyclops, Jaws and Dungeons and are the new  life-and-death playground for a unique breed of surfers who  ride gargantuan ocean waves as big as a seven storey building.
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The first survivors from the coastal region of Meulaboh were airlifted yesterday to the provincial capital of Banda Aceh, where they
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Courtney Conlogue has stood out at the elite level in amateur surfing for more than her talent.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - U.S. aid helicopters  stepped up missions on Tuesday to Indonesia's tsunami-hit Aceh  province, expanding help to millions affected by the giant wave  that killed 175,000 around the Indian Ocean.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - Survivors in tsunami-hit  Aceh crowded battered mosques to pray during an Islamic  festival on Friday as aid workers found many toddlers in  Indonesia were likely among the 225,000 killed by the Indian  Ocean wave.
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Witness accounts after huge waves triggered by an earthquake devastated Asia.