TACLOBAN, the Philippines, November 6 (UNHCR) - The big dredger looks menacing as it towers over the houses next to it. Children run around the ship, playing and seemingly unaware of the tragedy that ...

MANILA, Philippines (AP) - The death toll from one of the strongest typhoons on record has risen above 5,000 and is likely to climb further, although recovery efforts are beginning to take hold, ...

TACLOBAN, Philippines -- The air was thick with the stench of decay as sweating workers lowered the plastic coffins one by one into a grave the size of an Olympic swimming pool. Scores of unidentified ...

TACLOBAN, Philippines -- When a newspaper for Filipino workers in New Zealand told readers how to donate to the typhoon relief effort in their homeland, it mentioned agencies such as the Red Cross but ...

American storm chaser jumped in hotel pool to escape flying debris. TACLOBAN, Philippines Nov. 11, 2013— -- Americans who witnessed and survived in the bullseye of Typhoon Haiyan-- including a ...

When Typhoon Haiyan belted the central Philippines, it left a wave of destruction in its path. According to NBC News, the death toll is around 2,000 and about 11 million survivors are in serious need ...

TACLOBAN, Philippines (Reuters) - In the chapel of the only functioning public hospital in typhoon-ravaged Tacloban, seven tiny, premature babies lie sweltering in intense heat, looked over by anxious ...

The forgotten shelter that survived Tacloban’s 1944 superstorm. Not far from today’s ruined shoreline of Tacloban once stood ...

TACLOBAN CITY Philippines (Reuters) - Candles lit up the streets of the central Philippine city worst-hit by the strongest storm to make landfall as thousands remembered more than 6,300 people who ...

For three days, Elizabeth Acerden waited for news of her husband and son in Tacloban city, one of the Philippine communities devastated by Supertyphoon Haiyan on Nov. 8. As she washed dishes in ...

In the middle of a colorless plain of wreckage that was once a barangay of Tacloban there stands a single battered but upright house. You could call the owners lucky because they have a roof over ...