Flooding caused by some of the Philippines’ heaviest rain on record has seen more than half of its capital city, Manila, submerged in water.

At least one man was killed and 45 fishermen were missing after a powerful typhoon battered the northern Philippines, toppling power lines and dumping heavy rain across mountains, cities and the food-growing plain.

At least 13 people were killed today when a strong earthquake hit the central Philippines, destroying buildings and triggering landslides which buried dozens of houses, trapping their occupants.

Back-to-back typhoons left at least 55 people dead in the northern Philippines and rescuers scrambling to deliver food and water to hundreds of villagers stuck on rooftops for four days because of flooding.

THE strongest typhoon in years to crash into the Philippines killed at least three people yesterday, leaving a wasteland of fallen trees and power poles and sending thousands scampering to safety in near-zero visibility.

Super Typhoon Megi slammed ashore along the Philippines' north-eastern coast today with ferocious winds of 140mph – the strongest cyclone to hit the country in years.

THE first typhoon to lash the Philippines this year flooded parts of the capital, toppled power lines and killed at least 22 people yesterday, many of them trying to scramble to safety as the storm changed course.

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

An earthquake measuring 6.0 on the Richter scale struck west of the Philippines capital, Manila, today, seismology experts said.

A typhoon battered the Philippine capital Manila as surrounding provinces were still reeling from recent flooding, sending residents of one town clambering on to rooftops today to escape rising waters.

A tropical depression and heavy monsoon rains have killed 11 people and forced more than 74,000 to flee floodwaters in the northern Philippines, officials said today.

Vietnam began evacuating more than 180,000 people from its central coast as powerful Typhoon Xangsane approached from the Philippines, where it left at least 63 people dead and about 70 missing, officials said today.

The coast guard said today that 21 bodies have been recovered after a small outrigger ferry sank in rough waters in the central Philippines, raising to 23 the number of people killed by a storm.

The Philippine military has crippled a suspected coup plot by identifying and investigating 14 officers who were allegedly involved, the army chief said today.

At least 14 firefighters died while trying to control a forest blaze that destroyed about 12,000 acres of woodland and forced hundreds of people to evacuate their villages in drought-stricken Spain.

At least 14 firefighters died today while trying to control a forest blaze that destroyed about 5,000 hectares (12,000 acres) of woodland and forced hundreds of people to evacuate their villages in drought-stricken Spain, an Interior Ministry spokesman said.

Rescuers scrambled today to reach scores of people left stranded by a powerful typhoon that sliced through the Philippines on the heels of a rainstorm that killed more than 420 people with possibly hundreds more missing.

More than 160,000 people fled to high ground or crowded into schools and town halls as yet another powerful typhoon battered the eastern Philippines today, where 1,000 are dead or missing from an earlier storm.

AN earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.6 shook Manila, the Philippines capital, tonight, swaying high rise buildings, knocking out power and sending frightened residents fleeing into the streets.

An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.6 shook Manila, the Philippines capital, tonight, swaying high rise buildings swaying, knocking out power and sending frightened residents fleeing into the streets.

THE biggest statue that late Philippine dictator Ferdinand Marcos built to immortalise himself was blown up yesterday.

A fire tore through a shantytown in metropolitan Manila today, killing two people and displacing about 5,000 residents, officials said.