SANTO DOMINGO (Reuters) - Two Americans were killed when their helicopter, which was participating in aid and recovery operations in earthquake-hit Haiti, crashed in the Dominican Republic, aviation authorities said on Friday. The U.S.-registered helicopter hit a mountain and burst into flames on Thursday evening at Restauracion, close to the Haitian border, some 175 miles northwest of Santo Domingo ...

In hospitals in the Dominican Republic, which borders Haiti, survivors of last week's earthquake are spilling over in wards and operating theaters. Aguena Mondesi is just one young Haitian looking for relatives she believes made it to a facility in Santo Domingo looking for help. "I've lost trace of 14 relatives, including my mother Dasina. I have no ...