(UPDATE - 1:11 p.m.) Nine persons were killed and at least five more injured when a passenger van collided with a truck in Davao City early Wednesday morning.

The Supreme Court has ordered Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana and Armed Forces chief General Eduardo Año to appear before it on Thursday, the third day of oral arguments on three petitions seeking to nullify Proclamation No. 216 placing the whole of Mindanao under martial law.

(UPDATED - 12:16 p.m.) The constitutional safeguards against the recurrence of the abuse of martial law powers committed during the Marcos dictatorship “will only be good in the hands of a President who respects the law and respects the Constitution.”

(UPDATE - 12:52 p.m.) A huge fire engulfed a 27-storey block of flats in central London on Wednesday injuring a number of people and possibly trapping some residents inside the towering inferno.

An official of the Bureau of Internal Revenue was gunned down just outside his office in Quezon City Wednesday morning, a crime captured by a closed circuit television camera.

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan on Tuesday denounced the isolation of Qatar by neighboring states as a violation of Islamic values and akin to a "death penalty" imposed in a crisis that has reverberated across the Middle East and beyond.

DOT stands by ad agency's claim that video was not plagiarized.

It turns out the Philippines' self-styled Queen of All Media wasn't just dreaming about being in 'Crazy Rich Asians.'

Apple Inc is concentrating on technology for self-driving cars, Chief Executive Tim Cook said for the first time in an interview with Bloomberg.

Police in Georgia mounted an intense search on Tuesday for two escaped inmates who overpowered and shot to death a pair of armed guards aboard a prison bus then fled with both officers' guns into the surrounding countryside, authorities said.

Verizon Communications Inc said it closed its $4.48 billion acquisition of Yahoo Inc's core business and that Marissa Mayer, chief executive of the internet company, had resigned.

U.S. President Donald Trump has given Defense Secretary Jim Mattis the authority to set troop levels in Afghanistan, a U.S. official told Reuters on Tuesday, opening the door for future troop increases requested by the U.S. commander.

The U.S. government on Tuesday issued a rare alert squarely blaming the North Korean government for a raft of cyberattacks stretching back to 2009 and warning that more were likely.

One of the lawyers for petitioners challenging martial law in Mindanao said Solicitor General Jose Calida was apparently “inventing” reasons to justify the proclamation of President Rodrigo Duterte.

U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Tuesday denounced as a "detestable lie" the idea he colluded with Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election, and he clashed with Democratic lawmakers over his refusal to detail his conversations with President Donald Trump.