North Korea is a highly secretive nation and predictions of what it will do next are often little more than conjecture. Still, Kim is likely to be carefully weighing the timing of even a new nuclear test because it will antagonize North Korea's sole major ally, China.

Senate Minority Leader Franklin Drilon requested Thursday that the chamber defer approval of the Department of Justice’s proposed 2018 budget after Secretary Vitaliano Aguirre II failed to give an accurate report on the number of drug-related deaths since last year.

North Korea would be "crossing a red line" if it put a nuclear warhead on an intercontinental ballistic missile, South Korea's president said on Thursday, but the United States had promised to seek Seoul's approval before taking any military action.

When U.S. Marine Marvin Strombo found a Japanese flag on the body of an enemy soldier during World War Two, he took and promised to one day return it to the family of his fallen foe.

The Philippine economy grew at a sizzling pace in the second quarter, topping expectations as a government-led construction boom and an extended rebound in the farm sector took some of the sting off a peso currency wallowing at 11-year lows.

Human rights groups denounced on Thursday President Rodrigo Duterte’s latest tirade against them during which he ordered security forces to shoot activists for “obstructing” justice.

When the minority in a country is ignored, then we are looking at a bully administration, whose predilection is its readiness to disregard the rights of the few and the weak

In a bid to lure more visitors and investments from the world’s most populated country, the Bureau of Immigration will issue landed visas to Chinese nationals.

'Storytelling is a job that’s important to human experience. Even in times of war and calamity, we need a frigging joke, a story, a song, and some empathy to survive.'

A U.S. congressional panel next month will hold a hearing on violent extremism, including threats from domestic militants, following a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, that turned deadly.

The top-ten list also includes Jennifer Aniston, Jennifer Lawrence, Charlize Theron, Emma Watson and Melissa McCarthy.

The British actor will serve 'on her majesty's secret service' one last time.

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said it was time to "dial down rhetoric and dial up diplomacy" on North Korea and that he had told Russia, Japan, the United States, China and North and South Korea that he was available to help broker talks.

(UPDATE 2 - 12:53 p.m.) At least 20 persons were killed, most of them supposedly when they shot it out with police, in just 11 hours overnight -- from 7 p.m. Wednesday to 6 a.m. Thursday -- a roundup of fatal incidents by News5 showed.

Thirty-seven inmates were killed during an overnight raid by government security forces on a prison in Venezuela's southern jungle state of Amazonas, the governor said on Wednesday.