Gwendolyn Pang, secretary-general of the Philippine Red Cross, said that an unspecified number of residents were trapped on their roofs by floodwaters in the coastal town of Liloan in Cebu, and added that cars either were submerged in floods or floated in another Cebu community.

The Philippines was hit by two major storms in September, including Super Typhoon Ragasa, which tore the roofs off buildings on its way to killing 14 people in nearby Taiwan. More than 40 people were killed and hundreds of thousands displaced as rains driven by Typhoon Kalmaegi flooded large areas of the central Philippines on Tuesday.

A typhoon is the regional name for a tropical cyclone, an organized, rotating system of thunderstorms that forms over warm ocean waters. These storms feature a closed low-level circulation, driving powerful winds and heavy rainfall. While we call them ...

The remnants of Typhoon Halong scattered artifacts from an archaeological site along the shore of the Bering Sea.