Wrapped in a bundle of warm blankets and lucky to be alive, four-month-old Thomas Bekele still faces a precarious future. Orphaned three weeks ago when his mother died from tuberculosis, he is one of the almost five million orphans in Ethiopia — a mushrooming crisis that the government warned was "tearing apart the social fabric" of the country. The rising number of orphans has, however, raised the demand for adoptions to a record high.

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Defending Dakar Rally champion Stephane Peterhansel of France won the 483km 10th stage of the Dakar Rally in Atar, Mauritania, on Monday. Driving a Mitsubishi, he completed the stage in five hours, 22 minutes and 58 seconds to finish one minute and 27 seconds clear of teammate Luc Alphand.

Rescuers and volunteers in the tsunami-wrecked countries face the prospect of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), impairing their daily lives once they return to their homes, experts warn. The immediate focus of counsellors at the disaster sites is the wave of despair enveloping the surviving victims — those who lost family, homes and livelihood. Thwarting potential suicides is a priority, but the threat of PTSD looms next.

Six-time Tour de France champion Lance Armstrong will make up his mind in April about whether he competes in this year’s event. However, 33-year-old Armstrong added that under the terms of his contract with new sponsors the Discovery Channel, he would have to take part in either this year’s race or the one in 2006.