Should Rappler lose, then this will no doubt form a precedent for future government action. This means that ABS-CBN, already being targeted by the President and his supporters, as well as GMA, may be the next to be hit. Similar actions might be contemplated against any other media company.

Adriann Delmo of General Trias, Cavite is one of the five winners from participants all over the world.

U.S. lawmakers are urging AT&T Inc, the No. 2 wireless carrier, to cut all commercial ties to Chinese phone maker Huawei Technologies Co Ltd and oppose plans by telecom operator China Mobile Ltd to enter the U.S. market because of national security concerns.

Notwithstanding his acknowledged dislike for Rappler, President Rodrigo Duterte had nothing to do with the Securities and Exchange Commission ruling to revoke the news outfit's registration, and found it "unfair" to be accused of instigating the decision, his spokesman Harry Roque said Tuesday, January 16.

Japan is examining how to evacuate its roughly 60,000 citizens from South Korea in the event of a crisis that closes airports, with military ships being used as shuttles, a Japanese newspaper reported on Tuesday.

America is shooting itself in the foot by withdrawing from global leadership on trade, EU Trade Commissioner Cecilia Malmstrom said.

(UPDATE - 11:10 a.m.) Almost 22,000 persons have been displaced in Albay amid Mayon Volcano's intense restiveness, the Department of Social Welfare and Development said Tuesday morning, January 16.

Law enforcement agents arrested of total 75,008 persons in 38,830 anti-narcotics operations last year, the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency said Tuesday, January 16.

Thirteen malnourished siblings, ranging in age from 2 to 29, were rescued by police in California from a house where some of them had been chained to beds, and their parents have been charged with torture, officials said on Monday.

Headliners are Blue, Vertical Horizon, Stephen Speaks, Leigh Nash of Sixpence None The Richer, Rivermaya, Moonstar88, and MYMP.

A spokesman said police were continuing inquiries into her death, which was being treated as 'unexplained'.

At least nine construction workers were killed and five injured when a partially-constructed bridge collapsed in central Colombia on Monday, an official from the disaster response agency said.

Farewell to the Master of Terno

Turkey’s Tayyip Erdogan threatened on Monday to “strangle” a planned 30,000-strong U.S.-backed force in Syria “before it’s even born,” as Washington’s backing for Kurdish fighters drove a wedge into relations with one of its main Middle East allies.

Pope Francis said on Monday he was really afraid about the danger of nuclear war and that the world now stood at “the very limit.”