UN flag flies at half mast to mourn quake victims

United Nations Under-Secretary General for Peacekeeping Alain Le Roy of France, briefs reporters on the current situation after the earthquake in Haiti at UN headquarters in New York, January 13, 2010. Thousands were feared dead in a major earthquake that destroyed the presidential palace, schools, hospitals and hillside shanties in Haiti, its leaders said on Wednesday, and the United States and other nations geared up for a big relief operation. [Agencies]