WATCH | Battery-free cell phone harvests ambient radio signals, light

Engineers at the University of Washington in Seattle unveil a battery-free cellphone prototype that harvests power from ambient radio signals or light.

2 Crame cops, 3 other suspects fall in Angeles drug stings

Two policemen assigned to separate units in Camp Crame and three civilians were arrested in a series of drugs buy busts in Barangays Cutcut, Malabanias and Pulong Cacutud Wednesday.

Conflict-induced famine threatening 20M people – U.N.

The U.N. Security Council on Wednesday called on warring parties in Yemen, Somalia, South Sudan and northeastern Nigeria to allow humanitarian aid access and urged countries to donate more money to avert famines threatening 20 million people.

50 African teenage migrants ‘deliberately drowned’ off Yemen – IOM

Roughly 50 teenage Somali and Ethiopian migrants were "deliberately drowned" early on Wednesday by a smuggler who forced 120 passengers into the sea off Yemen's coast, the International Organization for Migration said.

Politicians in the way of peaceful coexistence, say Bosnia’s Muslims, Jews, Christians

Bosnia's religious leaders say politicians are standing in the way of peaceful coexistence between Muslim, Jewish and Christian communities trying to forgive and forget after the atrocities of a devastating 1990s war.

WATCH | Have 5,000 followers, will accredit: bloggers can now cover Duterte

The government will now accredit bloggers and other social media practitioners to cover presidential activities so long as they have enough followers.

WATCH | AFP: ‘We can resolve Marawi without the U.S.’

The military said it can resolve the crisis in Marawi without American help and is, in fact, ready to mount its “final assault” on the extremists government forces have been battling for more than two months now.

WATCH | PNA gets flak – again – for reposting Chinese op-ed piece slamming...

MANILA, Philippines -- The state-run Philippine News Agency, which has been pilloried in recent months for releasing inaccurate and misleading reports, has again come...

LOOK | Six Cinemalaya performers to watch out for

It may not be a banner year for Cinemalaya, but the films are not lacking in indelible portrayals.

Magnitude 5.6 quake strikes off southern Bohol – Phivolcs

A magnitude 5.6 earthquake struck off the coast of southern Bohol Thursday morning, the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology said.

Netanyahu claims Israeli left, media want to oust him

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accused his leftist opponents and the country's media on Wednesday of trying to oust his government by pressuring investigators to indict him "at any cost."

P300K bounty raised for killers of Mindanao journalist

The governments of Sultan Kudarat province and President Quirino town are offering a P300,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of the killers of journalist Leo Diaz.

Car rams into soldiers in Paris suburb, suspect arrested

French police shot and arrested a man on Wednesday suspected of deliberately ramming his car into a group of soldiers in a Parisian suburb hours earlier, injuring six of them in what the government called a deliberate attack.

Oscar-winning Coen brothers to bring Western anthology series to Netflix

Joel and Ethan Coen will write and direct 'The Ballad of Buster Scruggs,' a six-part anthology series.

Negros Occidental officials push for continued alliance despite abolition of NIR

Officials of Negros Occidental have pushed for continued collaboration with their counterparts in Negros Oriental despite the dissolution of the Negros Island Region.