• A typhoon and a hurricane. After ripping through the Philippines and Hong Kong, pictured above, Typhoon Mangkhut is pelting its way through southern China. In the Philippines, where a landslide buried people in a church and a bunkhouse for miners, officials fear the death toll could surpass 100. It has weakened to a tropical depression, and rains should cease sometime Monday, but rivers could rise for days. Today’s word: eyewall.

Source: New York Times September 17, 2018 03:56 UTC