America is shooting itself in the foot by withdrawing from global leadership on trade, EU Trade Commissioner Cecilia Malmstrom said.

(UPDATE - 11:10 a.m.) Almost 22,000 persons have been displaced in Albay amid Mayon Volcano's intense restiveness, the Department of Social Welfare and Development said Tuesday morning, January 16.

Law enforcement agents arrested of total 75,008 persons in 38,830 anti-narcotics operations last year, the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency said Tuesday, January 16.

Thirteen malnourished siblings, ranging in age from 2 to 29, were rescued by police in California from a house where some of them had been chained to beds, and their parents have been charged with torture, officials said on Monday.

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A spokesman said police were continuing inquiries into her death, which was being treated as 'unexplained'.

At least nine construction workers were killed and five injured when a partially-constructed bridge collapsed in central Colombia on Monday, an official from the disaster response agency said.

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Turkey’s Tayyip Erdogan threatened on Monday to “strangle” a planned 30,000-strong U.S.-backed force in Syria “before it’s even born,” as Washington’s backing for Kurdish fighters drove a wedge into relations with one of its main Middle East allies.

Pope Francis said on Monday he was really afraid about the danger of nuclear war and that the world now stood at “the very limit.”

President Rodrigo Duterte personally made the decision to let China conduct scientific research off the country’s Pacific coast, his spokesman Harry Roque said on Monday amid concerns among critics about threats to maritime sovereignty.

(UPDATE 3 - 12:54 p.m.) Outrage continues to grow over the Securities and Exchange Commission’s revocation of the registration of media outfit Rappler.com, a decision that will, in effect, shut it down with an international human rights watchdog calling the move a “vendetta” against a critical news site.

The Detroit auto show has been about flashy cars and big pick up trucks, but now the floor is giving space to startups as well.

The world’s top automakers are poised to introduce dozens of new battery electric and hybrid gasoline-electric models over the next five years.

Senators on Monday had different reactions to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) order to revoke the license to operate of online news site Rappler.