Authorities in Vietnam prepared to move a million people from low-lying areas along the south coast on Monday as a typhoon approached after it battered the Philippines with floods and landslides that killed more than 230 people.

Sen. Leila de Lima, among President Rodrigo Duterte's fiercest critics, spent her Christmas behind bars with her family and friends on Monday, her 304th day of detention at the national police headquarters in Camp Crame, Quezon City.

Franciscan monks have put the baby Jesus in a crib made of bullet shells in a yearly “provocation” nativity scene designed to draw attention to those suffering in the world.

Department of Justice Secretary Vitaliano Aguirre II on Sunday ordered the National Bureau of Investigation to look into the pre-Christmas fire that gutted a shopping mall in Davao City, where at least 37 people were feared to have perished.

The 96-year-old prince, also known as the Duke of Edinburgh, has been at the queen’s side throughout her 65 years on the throne, and has regularly grabbed the headlines with his off-color comments.

The latest U.N. sanctions against North Korea are an act of war and tantamount to a complete economic blockade against it, North Korea’s foreign ministry said on Sunday, threatening to punish those who supported the measure.

Several cast members of the hit musical shared some of their most memorable Christmas celebrations.

Two lawmakers have offered proposals to end the "paralysis" in the power sector -- as projected by new Energy Regulatory Commission chief Agnes Devanadera -- arising from the Ombudsman's move to suspend for one year four ERC commissioners, thus leaving in limbo numerous contracts that ERC as a collegial body must pass upon.

He's one of six magicians headlining the magic show 'Impossible' at the Smart Araneta Coliseum starting Christmas Day.

This Christmas, she returns to the big screen as part of the cast of the romantic drama 'All of You.'

Rescuers in the Philippines searched on Sunday for survivors of tropical storm Vinta (international name Tembin) that triggered floods and landslides and killed about 200 people, left scores missing and thousands homeless, most of whom apparently ignored warnings to move to safety.

Fire rescue teams recovered one charred body inside the comfort room of the fourth floor of the New City Commercial Center (NCCC) Mall in Davao City on Sunday morning. At least 36 other call center agents of the Survey Sampling International (SSI) were reportedly trapped in a fire that hit the shopping mall on Saturday, and chances for their survival were slim.

It was hard enough leaving their homes in a rush months ago, to escape the insane war spawned by the ISIS-inspired homegrown terrorists Maute Group. To have to leave anew their temporary relocation sites, as Tropical Storm ‘Vinta’ put the latter in peril, caused Marawi residents renewed anxiety days before Christmas.

The National Union of Journalists of the Philippines has taken President Duterte to task for his recent remarks tagging certain journalists as communist rebels.

The Department of Justice has ordered the Bureau of Immigration to place former President Benigno Aquino III and eight others, including two of his Cabinet members, on an immigration lookout bulletin order in case any of them attempt to leave the country while the charges arising from the Dengvaxia controversy are being heard in various forums.