The dangers that fire fighters face came close to home Sunday when several of them were trapped at the roofdeck of the burning Waterfront Manila Pavilion Hotel and Casino in Ermita, requiring their rescue by their colleagues.

The video in this story tells about the 50 or so children in Bagong Silang who have lost loved ones to the drug war. To protect their identities, we did not reveal their names nor show their faces. Many of them are eyewitnesses to the killings.

The Fil-Aussie beauty was the odds-on favorite to win the pageant's top prize.

The House committee on Justice has approved the report and the accompanying articles of impeachment against Chief Justice Maria Lourdes Sereno.

The Vatican “Lettergate” scandal came to a head on Saturday when the Holy See, under pressure from the media and conservatives, released a full text by former Pope Benedict that before was cited only selectively.

The Association of Southeast Asian Nations and Australia said on Sunday they held “grave concerns” about escalating tensions caused by North Korea’s nuclear and missile programs.

Fire of unknown origin broke out midmorning Sunday at the Waterfront Manila Pavilion Hotel & Casino in the tourist belt in Ermita district, with initial reports putting the death toll at four people, and over a dozen others reportedly trapped.

The grand coronation night of the 55th edition of the Binibining Pilipinas beauty pageant will take place this Sunday night at the Smart Araneta Coliseum.

Chief Justice Maria Lourdes Sereno is done crafting her comments, as directed by the Supreme Court en banc, to the quo warranto petition filed by the Office of the Solicitor General, seeking to declare void her 2012 appointment as chief magistrate for allegedly failing to meet basic qualifications for the post.

Many people said Pio knew what they were about to confess. He is said to have told then-bishop Karol Wojytla of Poland in the mid-1960s that he would become pope. Wojtyla became Pope John Paul in 1978 and in 2002 declared Pio a saint. Padre Pio’s biographers say he wrestled with the Devil regularly in his cell in a small monastery that is now the centerpiece of a sprawling complex visited by a million pilgrims a year.

Makati, the country's premier business district, collected total revenues of over P8 billion in January from local sources, a sum that already represents 56 percent of the full-year target, the Office of the City Treasurer reported.

Kuwait and the Philippines have signed an agreement regulating some working conditions for domestic workers in the Gulf State, Kuwait’s state news agency KUNA reported on Saturday.

Data analytics firm Cambridge Analytica harvested private information from more than 50 million Facebook users in developing techniques to support President Donald Trump’s 2016 election campaign, the New York Times and London’s Observer reported on Saturday.

A six-seater light airplane crash-landed on a house in Purok 3, Barangay Lumang Bayan, Plaridel town, in Bulacan province before noon on Saturday after taking off from an airstrip nearby.

The countdown for the one-year withdrawal period of the Philippines from the International Criminal Court (ICC) started Friday, March 15, as the country formally transmitted its notice to the international body that it has decided to opt out of the Rome Statute.