JAN 20: IMAGES_SEARCH AND RESCUE HEROES

Oscar Oliva, a member of a Mexican search and rescue team, cries with joy as he embraces a fellow rescuer after the group pulled Anna Zizi from the rubble, one week after the city was reduced to ruins Picture: PA

Pierre Louis Ronny is rescued by Russian rescue workers after having spent a week trapped under the Teleco Haitian telecom building. Ronny had his hand trapped between cement blocks, without food or water and was found by looters Picture: AFP/GETTY

Belgian emergency workers look for extra gear as they work together to free a Haitian woman who had been trapped in the rubble of her house for days Picture: GETTY

Members of the Los Angeles County Fire Department Search and Rescue Team rescue a Haitian woman from a collapsed building. The woman had been trapped in the building for five days without food or water Picture: GETTY

A police officer from the Basque autonomous region searches for survivors amid rubble in Port-au-Prince Picture: EPA

They came from Argentina, the UK, Belgium, Russia, Taiwan, Mexico, Peru, Spain, Portugal, Germany, the Netherlands, Canada, Iceland, France, Colombia, Brazil, Israel, the USA, DR, China, Venezuela and Japan to save lives.
Full photo gallery by the Telegraph UK: search and rescue workers and medical teams from around the world help Haiti