Shadia Bseiso, a Jordanian versed in jiu-jitsu, dreams of encouraging more Arab women to take up sports.

(UPDATE 9) Maute Group leader Omarkhayam Maute and senior Abu Sayyaf leader Isnilon Hapilon, the so-called "emir" of the Islamic State in Southeast Asia are already dead, Department of National Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana confirmed during a press briefing past 11 a.m., Monday.

A horror spin on 'Groundhog Day,' the film is about a woman who wakes up to her birthday every day, and is murdered every time.

Piston president George San Mateo asks: Where did LTFRB board member Aileen Lizada get her information? Is she part of the government's intelligence group?

Davao Mayor Sara Duterte-Carpio defended her father from allegations that he was threatening to set up a revolutionary government because of his insecurity and paranoia.

The Philippine embassy in Iraq has advised Filipinos in the Kurdistan region to postpone travel plans, coordinate closely with Philippine authorities and avoid going specifically to Kirkuk, as tensions are rising between the central government and the local Kurd authorities.

Individual economies should be left to decide for themselves how to improve competitiveness despite the mantra of globalization that had held sway over nations in the past two decades, Mahathir Mohamad, Malaysia’s former prime minister and honorary president of Perdana Leadership Foundation, told Philippine financial executives during their annual summit on Friday.

Iraq’s Kurdish leadership rejected on Sunday the Iraqi government demand that it cancel the outcome of an independence referendum as a precondition for talks to resolve the dispute.

A broad, multisectoral alliance that mounted the biggest protest against resurgent authoritarianism at the Sept. 21 martial law commemoration has come out swinging once more, tagging President Rodrigo Duterte’s idea of a “revolutionary government” as "nothing else but the one-man dictatorship that he has been repeatedly dreaming of since last year."

There will be no trading at the Philippine Stock Exchange on Monday (Oct. 16), and no clearing and settlement at the Securities Clearing Corp. of the Philippines, PSE president and CEO Ramon S. Monzon said in a memorandum Sunday to the investing public and trading participants.

Transport groups PISTON and the No to Jeepney Phaseout Coalition are pushing through with their 2-day nationwide transport strike to protest the government's PUV modernization program, even though classes in all levels have been suspended and work in government offices and courts halted for Monday.

The Barangay Ginebra San Miguel Kings made the big plays at just the right time as they went on a 19-3 rampage late to...

Japan's new ambassador to the Philippines, Koji Haneda, arrived in Manila on Saturday (October 14), pledging to make every effort to bolster the strategic partnership and friendly ties between the Philippines and Japan.

Bad weather is stalling efforts to clear the Iloilo International Airport of a Cebu Pacific plane that veered off the runway late Friday, even as technical experts from the Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines and the Manila International Airport Authority have joined the Cebu Pacific team onsite.

Dr. Lourdes Reynes Quisumbing, former Secretary of Education, Culture, and Sports under former president Corazon Aquino and Secretary-General of the UNESCO National Commission of the Philippines, passed away peacefully on October 14, 2017. She was 96, according to an announcement by Miriam College, where she had served as President when it was known as Maryknoll.