'Noble work' of Buddhist cremations after Myanmar quake

The child's pregnant mother was knocked over by the force of the quake while working in a paddy field, said grandmother Khin Myo Swe, and gave birth the following day. The baby was brought to a hospital in Mandalay to be incubated, but died on Monday. "We are all living in hardship," wept Khin Myo Swe as an ambulance worker gently cradled the little body before a Buddha statue decorated with flowers, then took it away to be cremated. Three days after a 7.7-magnitude earthquake struck central Myanmar the death toll has hit 2,056...