Dozens of Philippine government and police officials turned themselves in yesterday, a day after president Rodrigo Duterte linked them to the drugs trade, stepping up a war on narcotics that has killed hundreds since he took office in June.

A photo of a little Filipino boy doing his homework on the street by the light of McDonalds is going viral after being posted to Facebook.

Surviving a super typhoon is one thing, going into labour aboard a military plane during an emergency evacuation is quite another.

On a crowded and humid ward in the Vicente Sotto Memorial Hospital in the Philippines, in the city of Cebu, amid single beds packed with families, lies a young boy, his arm heavily bandaged.

“Always be ready for anything, you never know what will happen to you.”

Soldiers are distributing rice and water in the typhoon-devastated Philippines and chainsaw-wielding teams are cutting debris from blocked roads as the aid effort picks up pace.

The UK will deploy a Royal Navy warship and donate a total of £10m (€11.9m) to help the millions of people affected by the devastating typhoon in the Philippines, David Cameron has said.

Rescuers are facing blocked roads and damaged airports as they struggle to deliver desperately needed aid to the typhoon-devastated Philippines.

Haiyan has made landfall in northern Vietnam as a tropical storm today, after leaving massive destruction in the Philippines.

Corpses hung from trees, were scattered on sidewalks, or buried in flattened buildings — some of the 10,000 people believed killed in one city alone by the ferocious Typhoon Haiyan that washed away homes and buildings with powerful winds and giant waves.

As many as 10,000 people are believed to have died in one Philippine city alone after one of the worst storms ever recorded unleashed ferocious winds and giant waves that washed away homes and schools.

The strongest typhoon this year slammed into the central Philippines yesterday, setting off landslides and knocking out power and communication lines in several provinces. At least four people died.

One of the strongest storms on record slammed into the central Philippines today, killing at least four people, forcing hundreds of thousands from their homes and knocking out power and communications in several provinces.

The strongest typhoon this year has slammed into the central Philippines, setting off landslides and knocking out power and communication lines in several provinces. At least four people have died.

One of the most powerful typhoons on record has slammed into the Philippines, setting off landslides, knocking out power in one province and cutting communications in island regions.

The death toll from an earthquake that struck the central Philippines has risen to 85 as more reports trickled in about toppled buildings and historic churches near the epicentre.

A 7.2-magnitude earthquake killed at least 32 people across the central Philippines today, toppling buildings and historic churches and sending terrified residents into deadly stampedes.

Divers have plucked two more bodies from a sunken passenger ferry and scrambled to plug an oil leak in the wreckage after a collision with a cargo ship.

Divers are combing through a sunken ferry to retrieve the bodies of more than 200 people who are missing after a collision with a cargo vessel near the central Philippine port of Cebu.

A ferry with nearly 700 people aboard has sunk near the central Philippine port of Cebu after colliding with a cargo vessel, killing at least 17 people. Hundreds of others were rescued.

PHILIPPINES WITH TRAILFINDERS

A village watchman in the Philippines mistook an actor playing a masked gunman in a British film for a real assassin and shot him dead.

A packed passenger bus negotiating a downhill curve plunged off a Philippine mountain road into a 100ft ravine today, killing 40 people in one of the country’s worst recent accidents.

THE hunt is on for 47 “long-lost” species of bird in an attempt to discover if they have managed to escape extinction.

From the man in Colombia who was named after the King of Pop, to Malaysians who named a soya drink for him, to a generation of people around the world who have tried to moonwalk, the news stunned the world.

FRENCH President Nicolas Sarkozy, especially while in Dublin, should respect the decision of the Irish people and not try to impose the Lisbon Treaty by any circuitous route.

Deadly Typhoon Fengshen was heading for Taiwan and south-east China today after leaving a trail of destruction in the Philippines where hopes faded of finding more survivors from a capsized passenger ship.

DIVERS found bodies in lifevests bobbing in airpockets of a giant sunken ferry in the Philippines yesterday, and an official said it would be a miracle if any of the hundreds of missing had survived.

Divers managed to get inside an upside-down ferry today but found only bodies three days after the vessel capsized with more than 800 people aboard off the coast of the Philippines during a powerful typhoon, officials said.

Officials in the Philippines refused to give up hope of rescuing some of the 800 people missing after a ferry capsized during Typhoon Fengshen, even as high seas stalled efforts to get inside the vessel today.

Hundreds of passengers were feared trapped and may have died after their ferry capsized in the Philippines during Typhoon Fengshen, said two survivors who struggled ashore today.

The leaders of China, Japan and South Korea expressed concern over North Korea’s nuclear test and called for “effective steps” to break a stand off in talks to de-nuclearise the Korean peninsula, a joint statement said today.

A bomb explosion rocked a southern Philippine public market today, killing at least three people and wounding 20 others, police said, as officials warned that Muslim militants may try to disrupt this weekend’s Asian regional summit.

Security forces tried to disrupt plots by al Qaida-linked militants to stage attacks but failed to track them, setting off an alarm that influenced a decision to postpone a pair of Asian summits, officials said today.

Typhoon Utor lashed the central and eastern Philippines today, killing four people, including two toddlers, and forcing more than 90,000 people to flee to evacuation centres, officials said.

Typhoon Saomai, the most powerful storm to hit China in five decades, raged ashore today and churned across the crowded south-east, killing at least two people, wrecking houses and capsizing ships after 1.5 million residents were evacuated.

The alleged kingpin of an international drug syndicate suspected of operating one of the world’s biggest drug-manufacturing laboratories has been arrested, customs officials said today.

A powerful bomb hidden in a backpack killed at least 17 people today when it ripped through a crowd outside an airport in the southern Philippines.

The death toll from a tropical storm which hit the Philippines this week has risen to at least 110 as rescuers continue to recover bodies from under mud, boulders and collapsed homes on Camiguin Island.