Japan is to acquire medium-range, air-launched cruise missiles, capable of striking North Korea, a controversial purchase of what will become the longest-range munitions of a country that has renounced the right to wage war.

At least two people were killed in clashes with Israeli troops on Friday when thousands of Palestinians demonstrated against U.S. President Donald Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital and the Palestinian president said Washington could no longer be a peace broker.

In ground zero, every corner, every home bears the scars of war. From the fringes, the Marawi people watch with hopeful eyes that they would soon see their city return to life.

CLARK FREEPORT - Police operatives on Friday confiscated a cache of firearms and ammunition at a raid conducted in one of the exclusive villas...

Experts have located quite a few shipwrecks from the Battle of Leyte Gulf as well as war vessels that sank at the Surigao Strait. The...

Cagayan de Oro City - An estimated 2,000 people, together with family, relatives and friends, gathered here to pay their last respect to the...

Department of Health Secretary Francisco Duque on Friday confirmed that a 12-year-old student from Tarlac had suffered from severe dengue after she was injected with Dengvaxia, supposedly the world's only vaccine to protect people from the dreaded mosquito-borne disease.

Senate Minority Leader Franklin M. Drilon on Friday "strongly opposed" a prospective second extension of martial law in all of Mindanao, arguing that the...

GENEVA - The UN special rapporteur on torture urged US authorities to investigate and weigh criminal charges against jail officials in Ohio, Tennessee, Oklahoma...

The Philippines’ largest bank, BDO Unibank Inc. (BDO), has issued its first green bond, raising $150 million to expand financing for private sector investments that help to address climate change. It is the first green bond issued by a commercial bank in the Philippines.

She may have snubbed hearings thus far conducted by the House Justice committee on the impeachment complaint against her, but on Friday, Chief Justice Maria Lourdes Sereno found herself in the same room as the panel chair, Rep. Reynaldo Umali. He gave her a quick buss; she smiled but didn't look at or talk to him.

Enjoy the metro's many holiday activities—check our merry round-up of things to do for the next two days.

Listed sugar and ethanol producer Roxas Holdings, Inc. (RHI) posted a consolidated net income of PHP120 million for the year ending Sept. 30, up 18 percent from PHP102 million in the same period last year.

The Department of Health has created a task force that will address concerns related to the government's controversial school-based dengue vaccine program.

Lawyers of detained Senator Leila de Lima accused government prosecutors of seeking to cover up “fatal defects” in the drug charges they filed against the lawmaker by seeking to file an amended information against her.