Han Kang wins South Korea’s first literature Nobel

Agence France Presse 10/11/2024

Stockholm, Sweden – Author Han Kang on Thursday became the first South Korean to win the Nobel Prize in Literature for her work exploring the correspondence between mental and physical torment as well as historical events. A…

Google’s AI search revamp puts publishers in a quandary

05/17/2024

San Francisco, USA—Google’s use of artificial intelligence to summarize answers to search queries has publishers wondering if website traffic will wither. The internet titan announced Tuesday that it is introducing AI-generated answers to online queries in the…

Woman shot dead while doing laundry inside home in Cebu City

Emmariel Ares and Paul Lauro 10/12/2023

CEBU CITY, Philippines – A 38-year-old woman was shot to death while washing clothes inside her own house in Sitio Bahaw, Barangay T. Padilla in Cebu City past midnight on Thursday, October 12, 2023. The victim was…

Will Smith smacks Chris Rock on stage at Oscars, drops F-bomb

Reuters 03/28/2022

Best actor nominee Will Smith smacked presenter Chris Rock in the face with an open hand and shouted a vulgarity at the comedian for making a joke about his wife’s appearance at the Oscars ceremony on Sunday,…

NBI-7’s message to woman wanted for parricide: ‘You can run, but you can’t hide’

Pegeen Maisie M. Sararana and Paul Lauro 11/02/2021

CEBU CITY, Philippines — “You can run, but you can’t hide” This is the message of the National Bureau of Investigation in Central Visayas (NBI-7) to Geraldine Potot, who has a pending warrant of arrest for parricide…

Heart Evangelista slams netizen in underarm skin comment

Doris Mondragon - Content Specialist 11/01/2021

CEBU, Philippines—Heart Evangelista slammed a netizen who commented about her underarm skin in a photo she posted on Instagram. On Sunday, October 31, 2021, Evangelista uploaded a photo of her with husband Chiz Escudero.  She was wearing…

Central America braces as Hurricane Eta builds to Category 4

11/03/2020

Managua, Nicaragua—Eta rapidly intensified to a Category 4 hurricane on Monday, November 2, 2020, as it bore down on the Caribbean coast of Nicaragua and Honduras, threatening the Central American countries with catastrophic winds and floods. The…

Doctor bought ‘magical’ lamp but no genie

11/03/2020

Two fraudsters who allegedly duped a doctor into buying an Aladdin-style wish-granting lamp for £71,842 ($92,374.80) and even conjured up a fake genie have been arrested in India. Laeek Khan approached police in the northern state of…

More ‘Storm Troopers’ to join hunt for rebels in Eastern Samar

Florence Baesa 12/15/2019

DUMAGUETE CITY, Philippines — A hunt for the rebels in Eastern Samar is on as more Storm Troopers are set to be redeployed in the area following the suspected New People’s Army’s deadly December 13 ambush of…

Cordova’s ‘little pastor’ is 2019 Region-7 Exemplary Pantawid Child

Rosalie Abatayo 09/04/2019

CEBU CITY, Philippines — The “little pastor” from Cordova town has topped the Central Visayas regional search for the 2019 Exemplary Pantawid Pamilya Children of the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD). Jhon Rhod Amodia, a…

Cosby gets 3-10 years for sexual assault

AFP 09/27/2018

Disgraced television icon Bill Cosby was handcuffed and taken into custody Tuesday to begin a minimum three-year prison sentence for sexually assaulting a woman at his Philadelphia mansion 14 years ago. The 81-year-old, once beloved by millions…

Bali volcano spews smoke for second time this week

AFP 11/26/2017

A rumbling volcano on the Indonesian resort island of Bali spewed smoke hundreds of meters into the air Saturday, officials said, just days after thousands were forced to flee over fears it would erupt. Mount Agung belched…

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