Civil rights groups slammed the Trump administration on Wednesday over a U.S. Justice Department plan to probe whether colleges' racial-preference admissions programs discriminate against white and Asian-American applicants.

Senator vowed to keep pushing for the enactment of a law grating free tuition in state universities and colleges despite the possibility of President Rodrigo Duterte’s vetoing the measure on the advice of his economic advisers.

Millions of bubbles floating across Victoria Harbour on Wednesday are part of the latest public art show by Japanese artist Shinji Ohmaki.

Majority Leader Rodolfo Fariñas advised individuals and groups intending to impeach officials to ensure they comply with the rules of the House of Representatives as two complaints against Chief Justice Maria Lourdes Sereno remained without endorsers.

U.S. President Donald Trump's doubts about the war in Afghanistan has led to a delay in completing a new strategy in South Asia, skepticism that included a suggestion that the U.S. military commander in the region be fired, U.S. officials said on Wednesday.

Communist rebels accused government forces of executing a leading cadre, another guerrilla, and two civilians in Sorsogon late last week and said were holding President Rodrigo Duterte “criminally responsible for the Casiguran massacre.”

Tigers and forests are replaced by homeless people and refugees struggling to survive in an urban jungle filled with drugs and knife crime.

After a crackdown on illegal immigration that has sharply reduced the number of unauthorized border crossings from Mexico, U.S. President Donald Trump is now turning his attention to reducing the number of legal immigrants in the country.

Brazil's lower house of Congress voted on Wednesday to reject a corruption charge against President Michel Temer for allegedly taking bribes, saving him from facing a possible Supreme Court trial that could have ousted him from office.

The United States, Britain, France and Germany warned the United Nations on Wednesday that Iran had taken "a threatening and provocative step" by testing a rocket capable of delivering satellites into orbit and asked the U.N. chief to investigate.

'We do not believe that our email system as a whole has been compromised, but the forensic review is ongoing.'

The United States would "certainly" raise human rights with President Rodrigo Duterte's government when Secretary of State Rex Tillerson attends regional meetings in Manila starting this week, a senior official said.

He claims Lloyds of London owes him after he was hospitalized with a 'serious, debilitating medical condition.'

U.S. President Donald Trump grudgingly signed into law new sanctions against Russia on Wednesday, a move Moscow said amounted to a full-scale trade war and an end to hopes for better ties with the Trump administration.

U.S. scientists have succeeded in altering the genes of a human embryo to correct a disease-causing mutation, making it possible to prevent the defect from being passed on to future generations.