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Living up to its name, Typhoon Lupit — meaning cruel in Filipino — zigzagged around the rain-soaked northern Philippines on Friday, keeping weary residents on edge and forecasters guessing about its next move.
Black Eyed Peas singer apl.de.ap has flown to his native Philippines following devastating back-to-back storms to perform a benefit concert and deliver much-needed aid.
When a powerful storm inundated the Philippines last month, most people rushed to save their homes or their lives. Employees of one museum, however, grabbed the shoes.
The Filipino inmates who shot to global fame with a YouTube video of their "Thriller" dance swayed and stomped again Saturday in a behind-bars tribute to their idol, Michael Jackson.
Asia's share of global greenhouse gas emissions could rise to more than 40 percent by 2030, making it the world's main driver of climate change, experts warned Tuesday.
A U.S. Marine whose rape conviction was overturned by the Philippine appeals court has left the country, the U.S. Embassy said Friday.
Relatives of assassinated Philippine opposition leader Benigno "Ninoy" Aquino Jr. accused the president Thursday of denying them justice by pardoning 10 soldiers convicted of the 1983 murder.
The Philippine Supreme Court on Wednesday ordered a U.S. Marine convicted of rape to be moved from the American Embassy into Philippine custody, reopening an emotional case that has become a rallying point for anti-American protests.
Abu Sayyaf militants holding three Red Cross workers tried to break a military cordon that has boxed them in for days, setting off a clash Monday that wounded five marines and sparked concerns over the hostages' safety.
Asia should tap its $4 trillion in currency reserves to avoid a significant economic downturn through public spending to bolster consumer demand, a U.N. economic adviser said Wednesday.
Ernesto Igama quit his job as a ship's engineer after a pirate attack seven years ago. His love for the sea has brought him back, but now the global financial crisis could keep him stranded on land.
Any move by countries to cut their migrant worker numbers in response to the global financial crisis will not work, a senior U.N. official said Tuesday.
Investigators and animal welfare activists have rescued 18 dogs from the butcher's knife in the northern Philippines, using a new law against the illegal meat trade, an official said Thursday.
Kidnappers have freed unharmed a retired U.S. Marine's 19-year-old daughter a day after snatching her, police said Thursday.
Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo's public support rating plunged last month to a record low, making her the country's most unpopular president since democracy was restored in 1986, a survey showed Friday.
Suspected communist guerrillas launched a series of attacks Thursday in the southern Philippines, lobbing a grenade that killed three people and raiding a police station and a gold mining company, officials said.
A Philippine mayor and his son who negotiated with al-Qaida-linked rebels for the release of an abducted TV news anchor and three other people have been arrested as suspects in the kidnappings, officials said Thursday.
Al-Qaida-linked militants freed a popular TV news anchor, her cameraman and a university professor late Tuesday, more than a week after snatching them in the volatile southern Philippines, police said.
An international media watchdog said Tuesday it was deeply concerned about a Manila television crew that was feared kidnapped by al-Qaida-linked militants in the southern Philippines.
More than 200 million children worldwide under age 5 do not get basic health care, leading to nearly 10 million deaths annually from treatable ailments like diarrhea and pneumonia, a U.S.-based charity said Wednesday.
The president of the Pacific nation of Palau was briefly stranded in the Philippine capital when a U.S. airline refused to allow him aboard a flight without being frisked, officials said Thursday.
Students in a Philippine gold mining village strike gold every time they graduate at the top of their class — literally.
A human rights group urged the United Nations on Thursday to take the Philippines to task for failing to prosecute soldiers suspected of involvement in a string of extrajudicial killings.
An Indonesian terror suspect and two Filipinos were arrested during a raid on their hide-out in the southern Philippines, military officials said Tuesday.
Two al-Qaida-linked Muslim militants, including one wanted for the 2001 kidnapping of three Americans and 17 other people from a resort island, were captured in separate raids in the southern Philippines, officials said Friday.
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