Dozens of dogs on their way to a slaughterhouse have been rescued by police in the northern Philippines.

Dozens of landslides in the rain-soaked mountains of the northern Philippines killed up to 200 people today.

A disaster-relief official said dozens of landslides in the rain-soaked mountains of the northern Philippines killed an estimated 100 people.

Big waves set off by a storm battered provinces along the Philippines’ western coast overnight, sending more than 5,000 people fleeing, some falsely thinking there was a tsunami, officials said today.