BEIJING (Reuters) – At least 35 people, most of them students, were killed when a car collided with a coach on a highway in northern China, state media reported on Saturday.

The car, from the central province of Shandong, hit the coach on Friday afternoon in Tianjin city, near Beijing, the official Xinhua News Agency said.

Another 19 were injured, it added.

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MANILA, Philippines – The second typhoon in a week battered the rain-soaked northern Philippines on Saturday, adding misery to thousands of people, some of whom still perched on rooftops while several other Asian nations also reeled from flooding.

Typhoon Nalgae slammed ashore midmorning Saturday south of northeastern Palanan Bay in Isabela province with winds of 100 miles (160 kilometers) per hour and dangerous gusts of 121 mph (195 kph).

It was making a similar path across the saturated Luzon Island as Typhoon Nesat, which earlier in the week killed at least 50 people, left 31 missing and thousands stranded and sent huge waves that breached a seawall in Manila Bay. Nesat also pummeled southern China and was downgraded to a tropical storm just before churning into northern Vietnam on Friday afternoon, where flood warnings were issued and 20,000 people evacuated.

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The arrest of more than three dozen people on drug charges at a Boeing military aircraft plant highlights the growing problem of prescription drug abuse by U.S. workers, experts said on Friday.

Federal authorities on Thursday charged 37 people, all but one of them current or former Boeing employees, with selling or trying to buy painkillers and anti-anxiety drugs at the company's suburban Philadelphia plant.

The federal drug raid on the plant that makes key U.S. military aircraft followed four years of stealth operations as agents infiltrated the factory and found workers to cooperate in undercover deals, authorities said.

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CHESAPEAKE, Va (Reuters) – Virginia prosecutors on Friday dropped a misdemeanor reckless driving charge against the driver of a bus that crashed on I-95 when he fell asleep at the wheel, killing four people, a court clerk said.

That crash, along with several other East Coast bus accidents this year including one in March that killed 15 people returning to New York from a Connecticut casino, sparked calls for tighter regulation of discount bus operators.

Driver Kin Yiu Cheung, 37, of New York, still faces four felony involuntary manslaughter charges linked to the I-95 crash and is scheduled to go to trial in January. He has pleaded not guilty to those charges.

Cheung admitted to falling asleep at the wheel of a Sky Express passenger bus traveling from Greensboro, North Carolina, to New York City, according to court filings.

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MANILA (Reuters) – Typhoon Nesat pounded the Philippines' main island on Tuesday, lashing crop-growing provinces and bringing the capital to a near standstill as it flooded roads, cut power supplies and closed financial markets, government offices, transport and schools.

At least seven people, including a 22-month-old boy, died in the storm, with four missing, the disaster agency said.

Nesat was a category 3 typhoon with winds of around 200 km per hour (125 mph) when it hit the northern provinces of Luzon island just before dawn on Tuesday, Tropical Storm Risk said.

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