Speaker Pantaleon Alvarez said the House of Representatives will push for the postponement of the barangay elections, scheduled in October this year, and appoint officers-in-charge for the more than 40,000 villages in the country.

An earthquake with a magnitude of 6.4 struck off the coast of Peru on Monday, the U.S. Geological Survey said, though Peru’s Civil defense institute Indeci said there was no risk of a tsunami.

Emergency leak repairs in Rodriguez, Rizal will lead to a temporary supply disruption to some 51,000 households in the town and in San Mateo and Marikina City from 8 p.m. Wednesday to 6 a.m. Thursday, Manila Water said. Read for the list of affected areas.

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(UPDATE - 12:35 p.m.) President Rodrigo Duterte has asked Congress to extend martial law in Mindanao up to December 31 this year, or 162 days more from July 22, Malacañang said Tuesday.

The article claimed that the singer was keeping a household of young women in a 'cult' atmosphere.

U.S. President Donald Trump threatened on Monday to take "strong and swift economic actions" if Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro goes ahead with plans to create a super-legislature known as a Constituent Assembly in a July 30 vote.

A fire that struck a warehouse in Pasig City Monday night was finally brought under control Tuesday morning, almost 14 hours after it broke out.

A barangay chairman of Teresa town in Rizal was shot dead from pointblank range outside his office Monday morning in a murder captured close-up by a closed circuit television camera.

Police in the town of Marcos, Ilocos Norte have been reinforced after the July 14 arrest of newly-installed Mayor Jessie Ermitanio for the June 3 murder of his predecessor, Arsenio Agustin.

President Rodrigo Duterte angrily told Ombudsman Conchita Carpio-Morales to “shut up” after she criticized him for “goading people to kill” but said he welcomed criticism from one of his predecessors, Fidel V. Ramos.

Origami robot devices combined in modular systems at Switzerland's EPFL could vastly increase the number of tasks undertaken by robots.

Netflix Inc crushed Wall Street forecasts by adding 5.2 million new streaming customers in the second quarter and predicted continued momentum as it expands around the world, lifting its stock nearly 11 percent.

Somalia has restored its internet connection after repairing a severed undersea cable after an outage that the government said had cost the economy millions of dollars a day.

A tricycle driver who reportedly refused to become an asset of his village and the police was gunned down while in a separate incident a four-year old boy was wounded by shrapnel when a grenade exploded near his home, both in Makati City, overnight.