Landslides and floods after days of heavy rain in the central Philippines have killed five children.

Rescue teams abandoned the search for survivors of a Philippines landslide that buried a farming village a week ago, and will focus their efforts on helping evacuees who lost their homes in the disaster, an official said today.

High-tech equipment has detected sounds at the site of a Philippine school buried by a landslide, US and Malaysian officials said today.

Searchers burrowing with shovels at the site of a school buried in a massive landslide have no indications that anyone survived the disaster, a Philippine military official said today.

An overcrowded boat capsized during a religious sea parade in a central Philippine province today killing at least 16 people, most of them children, officials and witnesses said.