An Uzbek immigrant suspected of killing eight people in New York City by plowing a truck into cyclists and pedestrians on a New York City bike path followed online plans from Islamic State and left a note extolling the militant group, police said on Wednesday.

It isn't grand, it isn't huge, it isn't lavishly ornate. So why is President Rodrigo Duterte awestruck by the Japan emperor's residence?

"Political uncertainty" in the Philippines could make investors think twice about placing bets here, in turn weighing on overall growth prospects, a London-based research group said.

SSS assured its members on Wednesday that the pension fund has institutionalized mechanisms to address administrative complaints against its employees and officials, amid revelations certain executives tapped the SSS stock brokers for their private benefit. This, as a Makati lawmaker urged the NBI, the Ombudsman and the PSE’s primary and independent regulator of stockbrokers, to conduct parallel investigations.

Fruit and vegetable producer Dole Japan, Inc. decided to remove from sale, distribution, and consumption about 9,000 bunches of bananas that it imported from the Philippines on fears that the products had been deliberately contaminated.

Japan’s Shinzo Abe was re-elected prime minister on Wednesday after his ruling bloc’s big election win last month and days ahead of a visit by U.S. President Donald Trump that is expected to be dominated by concerns over a volatile North Korea.

After surviving a five-month harrowing battle with extremists in Marawi, it's time for soldiers to de-stress via R&R -- rest and recreation, or rest and recuperation, or rock and roll -- or all three, maybe.

Two key reforms implemented by the Philippines in the past year to improve the business climate for small and medium enterprises has been cited in the the World Bank Group’s Doing Business 2018: Reforming to Create Jobs.

(UPDATE 2 - 9:14 p.m.) Heavy overnight rains triggered a landslide in San Juan, Batangas, at dawn Wednesday, causing a large boulder to fall on an improvised guest room in a resort , trapping five guests who were staying there and killing two, the local police said.

The Department of Foriegn Affairs (DFA) on Wednesday said no Filipino has been reported among the casualties when a suspect using a rented truck ran over pedestrians in downtown Manhattan.

President Rodrigo Roa Duterte returned to the country Wednesday (Nov. 1) morning from what he called a "productive, engaging" trip to Japan, confident that his talks with Tokyo's leader will advance efforts to ease regional tensions, particularly in the Korean peninsula and the South China Sea.

And what DOT thinks of it.

Elated and humbled by the Prize for Freedom award conferred by the Liberal International (LI), Senator Leila de Lima vowed on Wednesday to continue fighting the "murderous" Duterte administration.

Global banks are preparing to defend themselves against North Korea potentially intensifying a years-long hacking spree by seeking to cripple financial networks as Pyongyang weighs the threat of US military action over its nuclear program, cyber security experts said.

US senators on Tuesday pressed Facebook Inc’s chief lawyer on why the company did not catch 2016 election ads bought using Russian rubles, why its investigation of them took so long and how much it knows about its 5 million advertisers.