Five people on yacht missing amid storm

A yacht carrying two Britons, an American, a Canadian and a Filipino disappeared while sailing in waters that were lashed by a storm last week, the Philippine coast guard has said.

A coast guard search team on a plane have spotted what appeared to be a floating body, orange objects and an oil slick in the high seas about 400 km west of the north-western Philippine city of Laoag on Tuesday, but it has yet to confirm if they were from the yacht Europa, coast guard spokesman Cmdr Armand Balilo said.