(UPDATE - 2:10 P.M.) Senator Panfilo Lacson let loose Thursday with President Rodrigo Duterte’s most used expletive to describe the order to return to active duty the police officer who was in command of the operation that led to the killing of Albuera, Leyte Mayor Rolando Espinosa Sr. late last year.

Malacañang said on Thursday the government is verifying claims by the Turkish ambassador that a supposed terror group from her country is in the Philippines.

The Department of Agriculture has made good its threat to blacklist 43 garlic importers who allegedly did not ship in enough of the product, thus causing prices to shoot up in May.

Kathryn Bernardo and Daniel Padilla are the cover stars of this year's special annual issue of Yes! Magazine.

The family of slain Albuera, Leyte Mayor Rolando Espinosa Sr. is dismayed over President Rodrigo Duterte's determination to clear the policemen who killed the local executive in jail late last year.

Dozens of other major technology companies protested online against proposed changes to US net neutrality rules that prohibit broadband providers from giving or selling access to certain internet services over others.

Russian cyber security firm Kaspersky Lab, reacting to a U.S. government move restricting its activities, said it had fallen victim to U.S.-Russia global sparring.

Even as the military promised to do all it can to end the crisis in Marawi City, Philippine National Police chief Ronald Dela Rosa said he is all for extending martial law over Mindanao.

A barangay captain in Caloocan City was gunned down along a busy street Wednesday afternoon with the crime captured by a closed circuit television camera.

First, she said they were sugar. Then she claimed they were mere markings on the marble table.

Former Brazilian leader Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, a top contender to win next year's presidential election, was convicted on corruption charges on Wednesday and sentenced to nearly 10 years in prison.

One of the biggest icebergs on record has broken away from Antarctica, scientists said on Wednesday, creating an extra hazard for ships around the continent as it breaks up.

Residents of Barangay Lake Danao in Ormoc City, Leyte were relocated Wednesday, despite their protests, from what authorities have confirmed is an “unsafe” location in the wake of last week’s 6.5 magnitude earthquake and subsequent aftershocks.

The Department of Environment and Natural Resources in Negros Occidental has reopened the Mount Kanlaon Natural Park to trekkers, two months after the active volcano’s status was declared “normal.”

Foreign affairs and maritime law experts wonder if "independent foreign policy" is the right description for President Rodrigo Duterte’s cozying up to China and his seeming aversion to the United States.