Based on initial reports, the acclaimed filmmaker suffered a heart attack while attending a party Saturday in Dipolog City.

The insurance sector saw another banner year in premiums in 2017 supported by double-digit growth among life and non-life insurers, latest data showed.

A study found that out of 1,223 directors of Hollywood films in the past decade, women accounted for only 4 percent of honorees.

Government scientists tracked overnight Mayon Volcano's activity amid fears that day-long rains on Saturday could trigger lava flows, even as they continued to monitor two other active volcanoes: Kanlaon in Negros and Bulusan in Sorsogon.

A confidential US Secret Service alert sent to banks said the hackers targeted stand-alone ATMs typically located in pharmacies, big box retailers and drive-thru ATMs, Krebs on Security reported. Diebold Nixdorf’s alert described steps that criminals had used to compromise ATMs. They include gaining physical access, replacing the hard drive and using an industrial endoscope to depress an internal button required to reset the device.

Saudi Arabian billionaire Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, one of the kingdom’s top international businessmen, was released from detention on Saturday, more than two months after he was taken into custody in a sweeping crackdown on corruption.

Fitch Ratings on Friday revised upwards the long-term issuer default ratings (IDRs) of state-owned Land Bank of the Philippines (Landbank) and Development Bank of the Philippines (DBP) to ‘BBB’ from ‘BBB-“ with Stable outlook following the same upgrade of the domestic economy’s rating last December.

KABUL - The casualty toll in Saturday’s ambulance bomb attack in the Afghan capital Kabul has, so far, risen to at least 63 dead...

The Department of Social Welfare and Development issued a warning on Saturday for the public in general to be watchful in dealing with possible...

Police in Cabanatuan City killed three burglary suspects who allegedly shot it out with law enforcers during an entrapment operation early Saturday morning, January 27.

With martial law in Mindanao and the scrapping of peace talks with the National Democratic Front of the Philippines, President Rodrigo Duterte has provided the perfect excuse “for the reentry of U.S. troops and their permanent basing in the country without a signed treaty,” communist rebels claimed.

South Korean officials rushed to identify 37 victims of a hospital fire and pinpoint the cause of the worst blaze in years on Saturday as opposition politicians blamed the president for failing to avoid the latest in a series of tragedies.

It is not proper for the Office of the President to use government agencies to harass or silence any media outfit or institution that do not subservient to the administration's wishes.

President Tayyip Erdogan said on Friday Turkish forces would sweep Kurdish fighters from the Syrian border and could push all the way east to the frontier with Iraq -- a move which risks a possible confrontation with U.S. forces allied to the Kurds.

Chinese scientists have cloned monkeys using the same technique that produced Dolly the sheep two decades ago, breaking a technical barrier that could open the door to copying humans.