MANILA, Philippines — The Philippine National Police (PNP) on Thursday said it tightened its monitoring at airports and seaports for gaming tycoon Atong Ang, who is wanted for kidnapping charges in connection with the disappearance of cockfighting…
TOKYO, Japan — Oysters in Japan are dying en masse in parts of the country’s top production area, likely due to warmer sea temperatures, officials said Monday, December 1. In some coastal areas surrounding the Seto Inland…
Vatican City, Holy See – Thick black smoke billowed Thursday from the chimney of the Sistine Chapel in a sign that cardinals again failed to elect a new head of the Catholic Church. Among the thousands of…
Madrid, Spain – A massive power outage hit Spain and Portugal on Monday, cutting telephone and internet access, halting public transport and plunging cities into darkness. Here is what we know about one of Europe’s biggest ever…
WASHINGTON, United States – Cake, gifts and a low-key family celebration may be how many senior citizens picture their 70th birthday. But NASA’s oldest serving astronaut Don Pettit became a septuagenarian while hurtling towards the Earth in…
Vatican City, Holy See — A still-convalescing Pope Francis said Thursday he was doing “as best I can” as he visited inmates at Rome’s central jail before Easter. The 88-year-old Argentine pontiff spent about a half hour…
Los Angeles, United States — “Spider-Man” co-stars Zendaya and Tom Holland are engaged, US media reported Monday, the day after she was spotted wearing a huge diamond ring. The internet caught fire when Zendaya, 28, appeared on the…
Jerusalem, Undefined – Gaza’s civil defense agency Friday reported deadly air strikes around Kamal Adwan Hospital in the territory’s north as well as “direct fire” on the health facility, which the Israeli army firmly denied. Several witnesses…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
