Five persons were confirmed dead and at least 53 injured when a bunkhouse at a construction site in Cebu City collapsed early Tuesday morning.

Senator Risa Hontiveros on Tuesday blasted the quo warranto petition filed by Solicitor General Jose Calida against Chief Justice Maria Lourdes Sereno, calling it “an assault against the Senate's integrity and democratic processes.”

Aid trucks reached Syria’s eastern Ghouta region on Monday for the first time since the start of one of the war’s deadliest assaults, but the government stripped some medical supplies from the convoy and pressed on with its air and ground assault.

U.S. states with the strongest firearm laws have fewer gun-related murders and fewer suicides than states that take a more permissive approach to regulating these weapons, a new study suggests.

South Africa said on Monday producers of cold meat products were to blame for delays in tracing the cause of the world’s worst listeria outbreak, which has killed 180 people in the past year.

The competition is heating up as the March 16 grand coronation night approaches.

Government claims of communist rebels and sympathizers giving up in droves would be “ridiculous and even funny” except that “serious violations of civil and political rights are perpetrated by Duterte and the military in their intensified drive to produce fake surrenders,” Jose Ma. Sison said.

The Biblical drama stars Rooney Mara in the title role and Joaquin Phoenix as Jesus of Nazareth.

Two anti-establishment leaders made early plays to govern Italy on Monday, triggering concern in the euro zone following an inconclusive election where voters shunted mainstream parties to the sidelines.

A U.S. study showed that permafrost in the coldest northern Arctic, previously thought to be temporarily shielded from global warming, will thaw enough to become a permanent source of carbon to the atmosphere in this century.

Terry Bryant, 47, was arrested after McDormand’s trophy went missing briefly at the lavish Governor’s Ball party.

(UPDATE - 7:52 a.m.) North Korean leader Kim Jong Un told a visiting delegation from South Korea that it is his “firm will to vigorously advance” inter-Korean ties and “write a new history of national reunification,” the North’s official news agency said on Tuesday.

Former Russian spy Sergei Skripal, who was convicted by Russia of betraying agents to British intelligence, was critically ill on Monday after exposure to an unidentified substance in Britain, two sources close to the investigation told Reuters.

Philippine Airlines will begin flying between Davao and Siargao four times a week starting March 25.

Carlos the Jackal, a left-wing revolutionary who was once one of the world’s most wanted militants, appeared in a French court on Monday to fight a life-in-jail conviction for a grenade attack that killed two people in a Paris store 44 years ago.