Typhoon Hagupit knocked out power in coastal provinces, mowed down trees and sent more than 650,000 people into shelters as it roared through the Philippines, but lessons from last year’s disaster seem to have avoided mass deaths.

Aid workers have described deserted streets and scenes of destruction in the Philippines as a typhoon started to work its way across the country.

Exploding fireworks sprayed from the sails of the Sydney Opera House and the Australian city’s harbour bridge at midnight as the world ushered in a new year.

The death toll from Typhoon Haiyan in the central Philippines has breached 6,000, with nearly 1,800 people still missing, officials said.

The United Nations is investigating reports that aid has yet to reach remote parts of the Philippines, a month after a devastating typhoon.

FILIPINOS are used to a seemingly never-ending pattern of storms, earthquakes, and volcano eruptions, but typhoon Haiyan is now officially one of the deadliest disasters to strike the country.

The death toll from one of the strongest typhoons on record has risen above 5,000 in the Philippines and is likely to climb further.

Manny Pacquiao might be fighting to save his future but his thoughts are with typhoon victims in his native Philippines as he prepares to face Brandon Rios in Macau tonight.

Rural communities hit by the super typhoon in the Philippines are refusing to eat fish for fear it may contain human remains, while their livelihoods were also destroyed during the coastal destruction.

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

Children pick their way through rubble searching desperately for their parent’s bodies while begging passers-by for water and food.

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.”

Churches in parts of the Philippines destroyed by Typhoon Haiyan are holding Sunday services.

The Philippine government has defended its efforts to deliver assistance to victims of Typhoon Haiyan.

Workers in the typhoon-shattered city of Tacloban buried scores of unidentified bodies in a hillside mass burial as desperately needed aid began to reach some of the half-million people displaced by the disaster.

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.

Desperation gripped Philippine islands devastated by Typhoon Haiyan as looting turned deadly and survivors panicked over shortages of food, water and medicine, some digging up underground water pipes and smashing them open.

Eight people were crushed to death when thousands of typhoon survivors stormed a government rice warehouse in the typhoon-ravaged Philippines, an official said.

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.

The United Nations is to launch an urgent aid appeal to help the Philippines recover from the ravages of Typhoon Haiyan.

The Philippines government has raised the official death toll from the typhoon disaster to 1,744 people, but the final number is expected to be much higher.

Emily Sagalis cried tears of joy after giving birth to a “miracle” girl in a typhoon-ravaged Philippine city, then named the baby after her mother who went missing in the storm.

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

Cheers broke out in Tacloban’s typhoon-devastated airport as 21-year old Emily Ortega gave birth to a baby girl.

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.

Some images of the destruction wreaked by Typhoon Haiyan on the people of the Philippines.

As many as 10,000 people are believed to have died in one Philippine city alone when one of the worst storms on record sent giant sea waves, washing away homes, schools and airport buildings.

Rescuers in the central Philippines counted at least 100 people dead and many more injured today, a day after one of the most powerful typhoons on record ripped through the region, wiping away buildings and levelling seaside homes with massive storm surges.

One of the strongest storms on record killied more than 100 people whose bodies lay in the streets of one of the Philippines’ hardest-hit cities.

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.

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.