North Korea said on Wednesday its newly developed intercontinental ballistic missile can carry a large nuclear warhead, triggering a call by Washington for global action to hold Pyongyang accountable for its pursuit of nuclear weapons.

The news should come as a big surprise to their fans because they had denied rumors that they were dating.

A robot wheels across a rocky, windswept landscape that looks like the surface of some distant planet from a science fiction film. But it is not in outer space, it's on the slopes of Europe's most active volcano.

Qatar announced plans for a steep rise in Liquefied Natural Gas production capacity on Tuesday that suggested it was ready for a protracted dispute with Gulf neighbors, but Doha said it was doing all it could to reach agreement.

The 2016 MMFF Best Director winner is no longer interested in joining this year's festival.

Western-backed forces edged into the final redoubts of the two capitals of Islamic State's self-declared caliphate in Iraq and Syria on Tuesday, hampered by fierce resistance from the militants and the presence of human shields.

A high school principal in Batangas province was in critical condition after motorcycle-riding gunmen ambushed her Tuesday morning in Lipa City.

The Commission on Human Rights and the National Youth Commission blasted the local government of Tanauan City for making a teenager do the “walk of shame,” which parades alleged petty criminals and drug suspects in public with signs proclaiming their supposed offenses.

A House panel probing alleged misuse of P66 million in tobacco excise taxes has deferred issuance of a show-cause order to two Court of Appeals justices it had locked horns with for their grant of legal relief to six Ilocos Norte employees detained by Congress for failing to testify.

BCDA is set to bid out the construction of the new terminal building of Clark International Airport in the next few weeks, its president and chief executive officer Vivencio Dizon said Tuesday on the sidelines of a Department of Transportation event at the PICC.

Justice Secretary Vitaliano Aguirre II on Tuesday directed the National Bureau of Investigation to probe and conduct case build-up on the reported resurgence of the illegal drug trade at the New Bilibid Prisons, which Aguirre said earlier now involved a handful of members of the police Special Action Forces (SAF) assigned there months ago to ensure strict security.

Manila Archbishop Luis Antonio Cardinal Tagle has some theories on why it seems some Catholics accept the thousands of killings associated with the war on drugs, despite the strict biblical injunction "thou shalt not kill.' He shared these in a press conference on the upcoming Philippine Conference on New Evangelization (PCNE).

Recovered from the abandoned stronghold within ground zero of the war zone were an assortment of high powered firearms and related fighting equipment, including a caliber .50 machine gun, communications items and even a drone suspected to have been used for surveillance purposes.

Edna, 25, cries like a child as she recalls how her husband Fred, who works on dump trucks, was repeatedly shot at, for unknown reasons, outside a neighbor's house. She and their 5-year-old child are deeply traumatized.

The PBA is urged to change its schedule next season to avoid conflicts with the Philippine national men's basketball team which will compete in...