Haiti earthquake: Thousands feared dead
Haitian President Rene Preval has said thousands of people are feared dead following a huge quake which has devastated the country's capital.
UN chief Ban Ki-moon said the head of the UN mission in Haiti and his deputy were among more than 100 staff missing.
The 7.0-magnitude quake, Haiti's worst in two centuries, struck south of Port-au-Prince, on Tuesday.
Prime Minister Jean-Max Bellerive told US network CNN he believed more than 100,000 people had died.
The Red Cross says up to three million people are affected.
The capital's Catholic archbishop, Monsignor Joseph Serge Miot, is among those reported killed.
In his first interview since the earthquake, President Preval told the Miami Herald newspaper in the US he feared thousands of his people had died.
Describing the scene in the capital as "unimaginable", he said: "Parliament has collapsed. The tax office has collapsed. Schools have collapsed. Hospitals have collapsed."
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