Tacloban

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  Painfully Slow Rebuild After Philippine Super Typhoon

  Two years after a super typhoon devastated the Philippines and sounded a global alarm on climate change, a massive rebuilding programme has had big successes but at least one million survivors are still without safe homes.

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  Philippine Plane Following Pope Francis' Overshoots Runway

  A plane carrying top aides of Philippine President Benigno Aquino overshot a runway in stormy weather today, authorities said, shortly after Pope Francis's plane took off from the same airport.

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  Pope Heads to Philippines to Comfort Typhoon Haiyan Survivors

  Storms greeted Pope Francis when he arrived in the central Philippines city of Tacloban on Saturday to pray for the dead and comfort survivors of Typhoon Haiyan, the country's worst natural disaster that killed 6,300 people barely a year ago.

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  Fear As Typhoon Bears Down On Philippines

  Thousands of people in the Philippines sought shelter in churches, schools and other makeshift evacuation centres on Friday as monster Typhoon Hagupit bore down on the disaster-weary nation.

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  Thousands Stranded as Filipinos Brace for Super Typhoon Hagupit

  Ports were shut across the Philippines, leaving thousands of travellers stranded, and some local governments ordered forced evacuations on Friday as super-typhoon Hagupit swept towards eastern coasts of the island nation.

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  Philippines Disaster City Braces For Strong Typhoon

  Authorities in a Philippine city ravaged by super typhoon Haiyan were today faced with how to keep residents still living in tents after the 2013 disaster safe as a new, powerful cyclone threatened to bring giant waves ashore.

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  Pope to Bring Message of Hope to Typhoon-Hit Philippines

  Pope Francis will bring a message of hope when he visits the Philippines in January, Church officials said on Friday, on a trip that will see him tour areas devastated by last year's super typhoon.

• Typhoon-Shattered Philippines Slowly on Mend

  Philippine communities shattered by Super Typhoon Haiyan a year ago are starting to bustle again as a mega-reconstruction effort takes root, but millions of survivors still endure brutal poverty and are dangerously exposed to the next big storm.

• Students Suffer in Philippine Typhoon Zone as Schools Open

  Tens of thousands of students in the central Philippines began the school year on Monday in steamy tents and other makeshift classrooms, seven months after Super Typhoon Haiyan devastated the region.

• With billboards, tweets, Philippines thanks world for typhoon aid

  The Philippines said "Thank you" on billboards around the world on Saturday in gratitude for the massive outpouring of international help after a typhoon that killed about 8,000 people three months ago.

• Classes reopen in Philippine typhoon zone

  Schools reopened on Monday in badly damaged central Philippine towns for the first time since one of the world's strongest storms ever to hit land killed thousands two months ago.

• New Year in Philippines kills two, injures 599

  At least two people were killed and nearly 600 others were injured by fireworks and gunfire in New Year celebrations in the Philippines, officials said on Wednesday.

• Hundreds of corpses unburied after Philippine typhoon

  More than a thousand dead victims of Super Typhoon Haiyan lay unburied on Saturday, seven weeks after the region was battered by the Philippines' deadliest storm.

• Remittances throw lifeline to Philippines' typhoon survivors

  A sister living on the other side of the world gave Roberto Retanal what he needed most to piece his humble home back together.

• Christmas in mud as rain pelts Philippine disaster zone

  Survivors of the Philippines' deadliest typhoon spent a gloomy Christmas Day surrounded by mud on Wednesday as heavy rain drove many inside their flimsy shelters, dampening efforts to retain some holiday cheer in the deeply devout nation.