Ecstatic crowds greeted Pope Francis as he arrived in the Philippines, Asia’s most populous Catholic nation, for the first papal visit in 20 years.

A Philippine town mayor, his wife and two other people have been killed by a gunman on a motorcycle in an attack at Manila main airport.

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 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.

The world’s strongest typhoon of the year has slammed into the Philippines.

Thousands of villagers are being evacuated as one of Asia’s most powerful typhoons this year approaches the Philippines.

The Philippines remains committed to deploying troops in UN peacekeeping hotspots despite the brief hostage-taking of 21 of its soldiers, military officials have said.

A man with domestic problems has shot dead eight people, including a pregnant woman and two children, after taking alcohol and drugs in a rampage near the Philippine capital Manila.

Rescuers are digging through mud and debris to retrieve more bodies strewn across a farming valley in the southern Philippines by a powerful typhoon, as the death toll from the storm passed 500.

The body of Philippine Interior Secretary Jesse Robredo was found and retrieved early today from the sea off a central province where his small plane had crashed three days earlier, officials said.

A grenade explosion has killed two people and wounded at least 30 others outside a crowded bar in the southern Philippines.

The cast and crew of the Hollywood action thriller 'The Bourne Legacy' have arrived in the Philippines, officials said today.

THE Philippine president has warned of a possible terrorist attack during an annual Catholic procession in Manila that may draw more than a million devotees.

The Philippine president has warned of a possible terrorist attack during an annual Catholic procession in Manila that may draw more than a million devotees.

The Philippines government shipped more than 400 coffins today to two flood-stricken cities in the south where the death toll neared 1,000 as President Benigno Aquino III declared a state of national calamity and relief agencies rushed to help.

Residents in Manila waded through waist-deep floodwater, dodging branches and flying debris today as a powerful typhoon sent surging waves as tall as palm trees crashing over seawalls and submerging entire areas of the Philippines capital.

Commemorations marking the 10th anniversary of the September 11 terrorist attacks got underway today as officials and families of the lost gathered in solidarity.

At least four people were killed and more than a dozen injured when an explosion ripped through a passenger bus in the Philippines capital, Manila, officials said today.

China demanded answers from the Philippines today after a 12-hour hostage drama in the heart of the capital Manila ended with eight Hong Kong tourists dead along with their Filipino hostage-taker after a day of botched negotiations.

More than 20 people died and another 40 were missing today after the Philippines was lashed by the first typhoon of the season.

The first typhoon to lash the Philippines this year killed at least nine people and left 10 others missing after flooding streets in the capital and toppling power lines.