Facebook Inc is trying to seize on the technology known as augmented reality, a mix of the real and digital worlds best known from the hit smartphone game Pokemon Go, Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg said.

Government forces foiled an attempt to hijack a cargo vessel in the seas off Siocon, Zamboanga del Norte Tuesday morning, the military’s Western Mindanao Command said.

(UPDATE 2 - 12:54 p.m.) Although their numbers have dipped, almost three-fourths of Filipinos remain afraid they or persons they know could become victims of extrajudicial killings amid a slide in satisfaction with the government’s war on drugs, the results of a new survey showed.

Turkey's main opposition began a battle on Tuesday to annul a referendum handing President Tayyip Erdogan sweeping new powers, while the bar association and an international monitor said an illegal move by electoral authorities may have swung the vote.

Former US President George H.W. Bush has been admitted to a hospital in Houston for a mild case of pneumonia but 'is going to be fine,' his spokesman said on Tuesday.

Police have received cash payments for executing drug suspects, planted evidence at crime scenes and carried out most of the killings they have long blamed on vigilantes, said two senior officers who are critical of President Rodrigo Duterte's 'war on drugs.'

(UPDATE - 10:06 a.m.) Indonesians lined up on Wednesday to vote in an election to choose between a Muslim and a Christian candidate to govern Jakarta, after a bruising campaign marred by religious tensions in the capital of the world's third-largest democracy.

Erwin M. Mascariñas, News5-InterAksyon Butuan City – The 26th Infantry Battalion of the Philippine Army 4th Infantry Division is intensifying its operation in the hinterlands...

News5-InterAksyon Businessmen, bigwigs in politics and long-time allies of former senator Ferdinand R. "Bongbong" Marcos, numbering 40 in all, came together to raise the PhP36...

Gerard de la Peña, News5 The Duterte Administration's economic managers were out in full force pitching what they described in one word as "Dutertenomics", which...

Shyla Francisco, News5 President Rodrigo Duterte has renewed the ad-interim appointment of conservation advocate Regina Lopez as Secretary of the Department of Environment and Natural...

MaeAnn Los Baños, News5 At a legislative hearing, senators and members of the House of Representatives asked leaders and members of Kalipunan ng Damayang Mahihirap,...

Jeff Caparas, News5 Closed Circuit Television surveillance footage showed the arrested South Korean national, Jun No, being conveyed to Ward 1 of East Avenue Medical...

News5-InterAksyon Remember the audacious April 2000 kidnapping by the Abu Sayyaf of at least 10 foreigner tourists, 11 Malaysian resort workers and many others from...

A six-foot player who is currently playing in Denmark, has expressed her desire to play for the Philippine national women's basketball team as the its naturalized player.