SANT'ANGELO, Italy, Aug 26 (Reuters) - The earthquake that brought disaster to a cluster of mountain communities in central Italy this week did not even spare the dead.

NEW DELHI, Aug 26 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Women and children in India's flood-hit eastern region are at risk of being preyed upon by human traffickers and sold into slavery in middle class homes, restaurants and shops, and even brothels, aid workers warned on Friday.

PESCARA DEL TRONTO, Italy, Aug 26 (Reuters) - African migrants hoping to start a new life in Italy after risking their lives crossing the Mediterranean have headed to the area of Wednesday's earthquake, helping local people who lost everything in the disaster.

(Reuters) - A Czech woman who spent nearly a month alone in a warden's hut on a remote New Zealand hiking track after her male partner was killed in a fall spoke of her harrowing ordeal on Friday.

MISSOULA, Montana, Aug 26 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - M issoula welcomed a migrant family from the Democratic Republic of Congo this month, part of an effort to resettle refugees in the small western U.S. city where hundreds of Hmong people from Laos began arriving in the 1970s.

(Reuters) - Tropical Storm Gaston is expected to become a hurricane again over the weekend, the U.S. National Hurricane Center (NHC) said in its advisory late Thursday.

Aug 25 (Reuters) - A broad area of low pressure moving westward through the southeastern Bahamas has a 40 percent chance of developing into a tropical cyclone in the next 48 hours, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said on Thursday.

OSLO (Reuters) - The Earth has gained coastal land equivalent to the size of Jamaica in the past 30 years with man-made construction outpacing erosion caused by rising sea levels, mapping data showed on Thursday.

Aug 25 (Reuters) - Hurricane Gaston has weakened into a tropical storm over the central Atlantic, the U.S. National Hurricane Center (NHC) said in its latest advisory on Thursday.