A measure allowing the legitimation of children born to parents below marrying age moved closer to becoming a law after both houses of Congress ratified it. The Senate and House of Representatives ...
At least 12 people were reported dead due to tropical cyclone Santi (international name: Mirinae), which has weakened into a tropical storm as it moves farther away from the country on Saturday aftern...
SAN FRANCISCO - San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom ended his bid Friday to become California's governor, less than a month after former President Bill Clinton came to the state to endorse his candidacy....
SYDNEY - An Australian woman who spent a record-breaking 60 years confined to an iron lung after contracting polio died Saturday in a Melbourne nursing home, aged 83. June Middleton was paralysed whe...
WASHINGTON - Witches, beware. Mummies, be gone. Halloween may be a celebration of all things creepy and macabre, but a growing number of US communities are shunning traditional ghoulish festivities, s...
The Manila Electric Co. (Meralco) and the National Grid Corporation of the Philippines (NGCP) on Saturday began restoring power transmission lines in Metro Manila and southern Luzon damaged by Typhoon...
President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo ordered disaster management teams Saturday to undertake immediate relief and rehabilitation work in areas affected by Typhoon Santi (Mirinae). Speaking on governme...
No thanks to Typhoon Santi, the Commission on Elections (Comelec) was forced to extend its registration for the 2010 elections by a day, at least for areas affected by power outages. Comelec Chairm...
EVERGREEN, CO, October 31, 2009 /24-7PressRelease/ -- For the fourth time in little over a month, Luzon, Philippines is threatened by a tropical cyclone that is threatening to pummel the region with h...
MANILA — When the three largest oil companies in the Philippines increased the pump prices of diesel, gasoline and kerosene on Oct. 20, they set off more than the usual grumbling from consumers ...