Asia Up to five million people have been displaced by tsunamis that killed more than 81,000 people in Asia, the World Health Organisation said, as an international coalition took the lead in global relief efforts. Asia The international effort to bring vital aid to Indonesia's tsunami-ravaged Aceh province cranked slowly into gear but the program remained severely hampered by transport problems as the death toll continued to rise. Asia Sri Lanka appealed for more aid as it plowed on with the sickening task of burying bloated corpses in the struggle to prevent outbreaks of disease piling more misery on its shattered population. Asia Health experts warned of disease exploding in tsunami-hit areas with millions of people desperate for water while fighting off threats of diarrhoea, malaria and respiratory infections. Asia Indian authorities speeded up the search for thousands missing from giant waves that lashed the remote Andaman islands as aid workers across the country struggled to bring relief to survivors and fears of a new tsunami sent people fleeing in panic. Asia The Indian navy is hunting for a tribe of aborigines on the tsunami-savaged Nicobar islands amid fears that any harm to one of nature's most enigmatic communities could push them into extinction. Asia Cancellations are swelling on flights from Europe and Asia as tourists scramble to avoid tsunami-devastated southern Thailand, executives said. Asia Aid agencies said the Australian public had inundated Asian disaster funds with the most generous appeal response in the country's history as Prime Minister John Howard urged people to give more to help devastated regional neighbours. Iraq Pitched battles between US troops and Iraqi insurgents in strife-torn Mosul left at least 26 dead including one US soldier as two Lebanese businessmen were kidnapped in Baghdad overnight. Uganda The Ugandan government and the rebel Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) are to sign a ceasefire on Friday to end 18 years of conflict in the north of the country, Ugandan Interior Minister Ruhakana Rugunda announced. US The United States said it will resume conditional imports of live Canadian cattle early next year, following a year-and-a-half hiatus caused by a case of mad cow disease discovered in Canada.