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.

Turkey's state prosecutor on Monday asked a court to remand the local Amnesty International director and nine other human rights activists in custody pending trial for membership in a "terrorist organization," an opposition lawmaker said.

Admission includes watching former Israeli commandos take down an "attacker" and other means to thwart assaults, including the use of an attack dog....

President Rodrigo Duterte scored high in the recent Pulse Asia Performance Approval Rating survey, carried out in June 2017. Below are the scores of...

The number of signatures to an online petition lodged at the internet site of Change.Org swelled to more than 60,000 by Monday evening, calling...

In an interview with The Philippine Star, former President Benigno Aquino III said he was surprised by the resolution approved Friday last week by...

Not Martial Law but genuine autonomy for Muslim Mindanao. That is only viable solution to the Mindanao Problem, according to the Bangsamoro Transition Commission (BTC)...

(UPDATE - 7:29 a.m., July 18, 2017) President Rodrigo Duterte has called Congress to a special session on Saturday, July 22, “necessitated by the exigency to deliberate on the possible extension of the period of effectivity of Proclamation 216, which will end next week,” his spokesman confirmed Monday night after legislators first broke the news.

Oil firms cut pump prices of gasoline by 20 centavos a liter and diesel by 60 centavos per liter effective Tuesday morning.

The refinancing of a $1 billion loan by Doha Festival City, a retail and hospitality complex in Qatar, has been indefinitely postponed as a diplomatic crisis deters regional banks from doing new Qatari business, bankers said.