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.

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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.

Internationally renowned Fil-Am artist Jefre Manuel creates an enchanting presentation on the magic of life and nature.

Bangladesh’s central bank has asked the Federal Reserve Bank of New York to join a lawsuit it plans to file against a Philippines bank for its role in one of the world’s biggest cyberheists, several sources said.

The Armed Forces of the Philippines has recommended the extension of martial law in Mindanao, saying it is needed to decisively resolve the various armed threats in the south.

Alphabet Inc’s YouTube plans to introduce a paid music streaming service in March 2018, Bloomberg reported.

A sudden outburst of jets from a black hole 8,000 light years from Earth has offered astronomers a rare opportunity to measure the surrounding magnetic field, only to find it weaker than expected.

A human rights organization has written the United Nations special rapporteur on the rights of indigenous people to report the latest atrocities against lumad in Mindanao, particularly the alleged massacre of eight T’boli and Dulangan Manobo in Lake Sebu, South Cotabato and evacuations in Surigao del Sur, Sarangani and Agusan del Sur.

The director of the Technical Education and Skills Development Authority in Negros Occidental was seriously wounded by still unidentified gunmen who ambushed him in Talisay City early Thursday evening, December 7.

The oldest and most distant black hole ever observed -- a celestial brute 800 million times more massive than the sun -- is providing scientists some surprises about the nature of the universe when, on a cosmic scale, it was a mere toddler.