MIA, TWO-YEAR-OLD HAITIAN GIRL
UK firefighters pulled two-year-old Haitian girl Mia from the rubble where she had been trapped for three days. Officers from the city of Manchester said the operation was "lengthy and difficult", in Haiti's searing heat.
She was trapped beneath piles of rubble when her kindergarten school totally collapsed.
Chief Officer Mike Thomas said: "This is what we do the job for. The conditions we are working in are pretty dire. This is a real bonus to us all."
Mia's rescue came a few hours after Spanish rescuers pulled another two-year-old child, Redjeson Hausteen Claude, from the rubble. Covered with dust, he seemed to smile as he was reunited with his mother.
SARLA CHAND, US NATIONAL
The 65-year-old physician from New Jersey was pulled alive on Thursday - after spending more than 50 hours buried under the rubble of the collapsed Montana Hotel in Port-au-Prince.
She was rescued by French, Spanish and US teams and later given a biscuit to eat.
Sarla Chand says she had been communicating with another five people trapped with her until the moment she was dug out.
The rescuers were desperately searching for several other apparent survivors under the Montana Hotel.
TARMO JOVEER, ESTONIAN UN PROTECTION OFFICER
Many of the thousands of UN peacekeepers, diplomats and development experts who live and work in Haiti were among those affected by the earthquake. At least 100 are still missing.
US Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Thursday told the tale of one UN staff member found beneath the rubble of the international body's collapsed headquarters in Port-au-Prince.
Estonian protection officer Tarmo Joveer, Mr Ban said, was only found after "scratching sounds" were heard and was kept alive by being "given water through a rubber pipe". He was eventually rescued from where he was trapped, beneath some 4m of rubble.
"It was a small, small miracle during a night which brought few other miracles," he said, adding that Mr Joveer had been transported to a hospital in Argentina for treatment.
JILLIAN THORP, US AID WORKER, AND HER HUSBAND, FRANK
Frank Thorp, a US citizen in Haiti, says he drove about 100 miles (161km) to Port-au-Prince immediately after Tuesday's earthquake to rescue his 23-year-old wife Jillian, an aid worker.
"We had a six-hour drive... And by the time that I got here my wife Jillian was still trapped underneath the rubble of our house," Mr Thorp told CBS's Early Show.
"It's hard to describe how I was feeling. I wasn't really sure whether she was OK or not. I'd spoken to her on Skype for about 10 seconds, she said that she was trapped. And that's all that I knew. It was absolutely terrifying."
Frank says that when he arrived there he found out that the entire house - a three-storey concrete building - had collapsed.
"She [Jillian] and one other person... were completely trapped underneath about a foot (30cm) of concrete.
"I jumped into the hole and I was able to see her waive her hand; I couldn't see her whole body... I could hear her voice..."
He said his wife was saying: "Just get me out of here!"
"We had to plough bricks and bricks and bricks... and doors and metal away for at least an hour before we were able to get her and her co-worker out," he said.
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