This is the dramatic moment a villager was rescued from a flood spawned by Typhoon Toraji in the Philippines. The man had reportedly been walking on the banks of the swollen Cagayan River when the ground beneath him gave way in Amulung town,

The Philippines has scrambled to deal with multiple calamities wreaked by four back-to-back typhoons and storms in less than a month.

AccuWeather meteorologists say the Western Pacific Ocean is experiencing a surge in tropical activity this week, with four storms stretching from Vietnam to the Mariana Islands. As one typhoon makes its exit from the Philippines Monday,

The Philippines ordered evacuations ahead of Typhoon Usagi on Wednesday, as the UN disaster office sought $32.9 million in aid for the country after storms that killed more than 150 people. About 20 big storms and typhoons hit the archipelago nation or its surrounding waters each year,

This is the dramatic moment a concrete home collapsed into a river during Typhoon Toraji in the Philippines. The single-storey concrete house crumbled as the nearby river eroded its foundations in Baggao town in storm-battered Cagayan province on the evening of November 11.