Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A massive fire tore through a coastal shanty town in the Philippine capital on Sunday, leaving at least 2,000 families homeless as ...

MANILA, Philippines (AP) — The ghetto called Aroma reeks of putrefying trash collected by its residents for recycling. Half-naked children with grimy faces play on muddy dirt roads lined by crumbling ...

MANILA, Philippines Fire raced through a slum near the main port in the Philippine capital, leaving 4,000 people homeless and killing a 5-year-old girl, an official said Sunday. The Saturday night ...

Firemen tackled a huge fire that ripped through hundreds of slum homes in the Philippine capital Manila on Sunday. Footage shows a Philippine Air Force helicopter dumping water over the raging inferno ...

The inferno started in a sprawling slum near the port late Tuesday and raged for about 10 hours. The inferno started in a sprawling slum near the port late Tuesday and raged for about 10 hours, as ...

Two hundred meters from my home is a community of informal settlers. Their houses, mostly made of flimsy materials, stand in stark contrast to those of people who live in posh subdivisions. The ...

Terrified residents fled as a fire ripped through a crowded slum in the Philippines. Hundreds of locals evacuated their homes in the early hours of Friday to escape the blaze rapidly engulfing ...

(CNN) — A massive fire tore through a coastal shanty town in the Philippine capital on Sunday, leaving at least 2,000 families homeless as flames billowed for nearly eight hours. (CNN) — A massive ...

MANILA — As many as 15,000 people are homeless after a huge fire engulfed an overcrowded slum in Manila, destroying thousands of homes and sending residents fleeing with their few possessions. The ...