Hundreds of residents of suburban Manila take shelter in a basketball court due to severe flooding in Manila on August 6, 2012. Schools, financial markets and most government offices were shut as key ... more 

Hundreds of residents of suburban Manila take shelter in a basketball court due to severe flooding in Manila on August 6, 2012. Schools, financial markets and most government offices were shut as key roadways in Manila -- a metropolis of some 15 million people -- were made impassable by waters that in some areas reached neck-deep less