<span style="color: #222222;">Powerful Mangkhut storm moves across South China Sea, leaving trail of battered homes and landslides in northern Philippines. </span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">The most ferocious storm to hit the Philippines this year killed 14 people. </span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">The typhoon tore across northern Philippines with destructive winds and heavy rain, before heading towards Hong Kong and southern China.</span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">The victims died mostly in landslides and houses that got pummeled by the storm's fierce winds and rain on Saturday. </span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">Meanwhile, US President Donald Trump has declared a disaster in North Carolina where storm Florence has killed 11 people amid warnings the worst is far from over.</span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">Storm's sustained winds have weakened to 72 Kilometres per hour but it is projected to bring further catastrophic flash flooding.</span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">Some towns have already had over two feet of rain, and forecasters warn that totals could hit one metre.</span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">Nearly a million householders have no electricity in the Carolinas.</span><br />