Rescuers in helicopters and boats were Saturday desperately searching for nearly 300 people missing after a ferry sank in the Philippines, with at least 24 already confirmed killed.

Philippine officials say divers have recovered the bodies of two pilots from a plane that crashed in the sea over the weekend and killed the country's popular interior secretary, ending a massive sear

At least five people were killed and seven were missing on Tuesday as torrential rains triggered a landslide and widespread flooding in the Philippine capital and nearby areas, officials said.

A man

The death toll in the Philippines from Typhoon Saola has risen to 37 and is expected to go even higher as new rains worsened flooding, the government said on Friday.

Monsoon rains continued to batter

Rescuers were fanning out across the central Philippines on Tuesday after a powerful earthquake triggered landslides, collapsed homes and killed dozens of people.

The 6.8-magnitude quake hit a narrow

The toll of dead and missing from a cyclone that swept the southern Philippines has exceeded 1,000, a government agency said Tuesday as cities prepared mass burials for the victims.

The government di

Hundreds of residents fled a remote Philippine village after 11 men including relatives of a powerful politician died in a clash with Muslim rebels, officials said on Monday.

A 500-strong armoured ar

Manila: Philippine environmentalists have set a world record for the most trees planted simultaneously, kickstarting an enormous reforesteration programme, organisers said on Thursday.

Nearly 7,000 p

Clan wars are complicating the security situation in insurgency-ridden parts of the Philippines, distracting the government from peace-building efforts, the Red Cross warned on Thursday.

Sixteen inmates broke out of an overcrowded Philippine jail by sawing off their cell's iron bars and climbing down a wall using blankets, authorities said Thursday.