Weather stalls Philippines rescue
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Blocked roads and rushing water are hampering efforts to save survivors of floods in the Philippines which have killed almost 350 people.
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The death toll from Typhoon Xangsane in the Philippines has neared 200,  as rescue workers reached remote areas where last week's massive storm sparked flash floods and landslides.
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Rescue workers are rushing relief aid to tens of thousands of wet and hungry survivors, as heavy equipment moves in to clear debris from two storms that are feared to have claimed 1,100 lives in the northern Philippines.
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REAL, Philippines  - The Philippines put the toll  at more than 1,000 dead or missing in four storms in two weeks  but, even with a break in the weather on Saturday, relief  supplies were running short and fears of disease were  spreading.
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Rescuers pull survivors from the rubble of a building which collapsed in floods that hit the Philippines 10 days ago.
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Flood waters receded in the northern Philippines on Friday in the wake of a typhoon, but thousands of people remained cut off from help, hungry and at risk of disease after a week of severe flooding.
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Weather forecasters have raised flood and landslide alerts as tropical storm Durian threatened the northern Philippines with winds of up to 105 kilometers (65 miles) an hour.
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Bad weather is hampering efforts to salvage a lifeboat stranded on rocks at Rathlin Island, off the Antrim coast.
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REAL, Philippines  - Philippine rescuers were frantically digging for more survivors after four people, including a toddler, were pulled alive from a building crushed by a landslide 11 days ago.
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Typhoon Xangsane weakened over the   Philippines on Thursday but fierce winds and driving rains   killed at least eight people, displaced nearly 5,500 and   devastated parts of the central islands and Manila.
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Rescuers on Thursday pulled at least four survivors from a building that collapsed 10 days ago during storms that killed more than 700 people in the Philippines, and soldiers were working frantically to free at least 20 other
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Relief crews battling walls of mud and lashing rain to reach villages still isolated days after back-to-back storms devastated the northeastern Philippines have found 51 more bodies, taking the death toll to at least 740 people
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A powerful rainstorm triggered landslides and flash floods that killed nearly 340 people in the eastern Philippines, officials said Tuesday, and rescuers raced to save those stranded in three coastal towns before a typhoon strikes the hard-hit region.
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REAL, Philippines : Philippine rescuers are digging through the rubble of a collapsed building for more survivors, as the number of dead and missing from two storms which lashed the country rose to nearly 1,600.
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Officials could only apologize Monday when asked about the prospects of finding survivors in the towns and villages swamped by mudslides from devastating Typhoon Durian, which has killed an estimated 1,000 people in the Philippines.
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DARAGA, Philippines -- The Red Cross estimated yesterday that up to 1,000 people may have died in the typhoon that unleashed walls of black mud on entire villages in the Philippines. The country's president declared a state of national calamity.
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Food and supplies arrive in the Philippines, hit hard by back-to-back storms. More than 600 are dead, and nearly 400 are missing. BY OLIVER TEVES.