PARIS, France — The world’s leading luxury group, LVMH, saw net profit slide 13 percent in 2025 to 10.9 billion euros ($13.1 billion) as an exceptional tax on large French companies weighed on its bottom line. But sales at the company, best known...

The heart-wrenching impact of Cup of Joe’s “Multo” continues to be felt by audiences, as it brought home the Song of the Year award at the inaugural TikTok LIVE Awards.  The Cup of Joe-led smash hit, which maintains its reign on the charts and awa...

Coming in high from “I’m Perfect’s” Best Picture win at the Metro Manila Film Festival (MMFF), the family-owned Nathan Studios announced that its co-produced films “Filipiniana” and “Levitating (Para Perasuk)” are heading to the 2026 Sundance Film Fest...

LOS ANGELES, United States — Video sharing app TikTok has made an eleventh-hour deal to avoid a landmark US trial accusing it, along with Meta and YouTube, of addicting young people to social media, lawyers said on Tuesday. The deal was made as jury se...

MANILA, Philippines — Acting Philippine National Police (PNP) chief Lt. Gen. Jose Melencio Nartatez Jr. will be promoted to a full-fledged top cop with the four-star rank of police general on Wednesday, Jan. 28, according to a memorandum from the agenc...

BEIJING, China — Chinese athletic goods giant Anta Sports will buy a controlling stake in historic German sportswear brand Puma for $1.79 billion, a stock exchange filing showed Tuesday. As it expands its international presence, Anta will buy 43 millio...

CEBU CITY, Philippines — A city councilor is pushing for a long-term fix that begins not in landfills or power plants, but inside classrooms, as Cebu City struggles to contain a deepening garbage crisis. In a privilege speech delivered on Tuesday, Janu...

MANILA, Philippines – The shear line and the northeast monsoon or amihan continue to affect the country, bringing cold weather, cloudy skies, and light rains to most areas of the Philippines on Wednesday, the state weather bureau said. In its forecast,...

NEW YORK, United States — Wall Street ticked to a record on Tuesday, as stocks zigzagged following mixed profit reports from UnitedHealth, General Motors and other big companies. The S&P 500 rose 0.4% and edged past its prior all-time high set a co...

CEBU CITY, Philippines — The Metropolitan Cebu Water District (MCWD) has a new professional sector representative on its board. This was after Mayor Nestor Archival intervened to appoint lawyer-engineer Mariefel Resma Roble amid delays in the legally m...

MANILA, Philippines — A fire that reached fifth alarm gutted a Landers Supermarket branch in Barangay Pasong Putik, Quezon City before dawn on Wednesday, prompting an escalated fire response on site. The blaze was reported at the Landers Supermarket in...

As Miss World Philippines 2026 coronation night approaches, international Q&A coach and pageant communication strategist Michelle Joy Padayhag shared her views on what defines a queen worthy of the title....Keep on reading: Becoming Miss World Philippi...

LONDON, United Kingdom — Prime Minister Keir Starmer on Wednesday begins a three-day visit to China where he will defend Britain’s “pragmatic” partnership with the Asian giant after years of fraught relations. It will be the first vis...

MANDAUE CITY – The peace plan and the recently concluded elections in Myanmar are among the pressing subjects foreign ministers from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) will discuss in their first major meeting under the Philippine ...

SEOUL, South Korea — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has announced that “next-stage plans” for developing his country’s nuclear deterrent will be unveiled at the next ruling party congress, the official KCNA news agency reported Wedne...

MANILA, Philippines — The presence of the world’s largest coast guard cutter belonging to China has been seen for the first time in nearly a year at the West Philippine Sea. The China Coast Guard (CCG) vessel with hull number 5901 weighs about 12,...

WASHINGTON, United States — A deep freeze is gripping large swaths of the United States after a monster storm killed dozens of people from the Northeast to the Deep South, knocked out power to hundreds of thousands and sent air travel into chaos. Anoth...

This is the Daily Gospel for January 28, 2026, which is the Wednesday of the Third week in Ordinary Time. READ MORE: Daily Gospel, January 27, 2026 Daily Gospel, January 26, 2026 Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ, according to Saint Mark 4, 1-20. On another ...

MANILA, Philippines — The Department of Transportation (DOTr) has grounded the entire passenger fleet of Aleson Shipping Lines, owner of MV Trisha Kerstin 3 which sank off the waters of Basilan province on Monday, pending investigation of the incident....

Here are the lotto draw results of the Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office (PCSO) for Tuesday, January 27, 2026. Check these out. READ MORE: Lotto draw results, January 26, 2026 Lotto draw results, January 25, 2026 PCSO Lotto gamesThe PCSO holds five...

The proposed 2026 national budget could delay pay increases and retirement benefits for teachers, civil servants and uniformed personnel after more than P43 billion in mandatory personnel benefits were moved to the government’s unprogrammed appropriati...

Ombudsman Jesus Crispin Remulla, who is at the forefront of the current anticorruption campaign as the country’s chief graft prosecutor, dismissed rumors that he was hospitalized. “Fake news,” Remulla said in a curt reply to the Inquirer’s request for ...

CALAPAN CITY—Government troops clashed with suspected communist rebels Thursday morning in Barangay Cabacao, Abra de Ilog, Occidental Mindoro, after residents reported the presence of armed New People’s Army (NPA) members in the area, the Philippine Ar...

LOS ANGELES – An ailing 70-year-old Filipino grandmother and green card holder is facing deportation after four decades in the United States, and her family is worried she might not survive the long flight to the Philippines. Rebecca Pinyerd suffers fr...

The Electric Vehicles Association of the Philippines (EVAP) welcomed the Land Transportation Office’s (LTO) ban on electric tricycles (e-trikes) on major roads in the National Capital Region (NCR), even as it called for a “clearer implementation” of th...

More than 70 percent of road crash injuries recorded over the holidays involved motorcycles, according to the latest data released on Friday by the Department of Health (DOH). The agency also reported that five of the seven deaths recorded from Dec. 21...

From my reading of the fourth quarter statistics of Social Weather Stations (SWS), the ending of 2025 wasn’t too bad; but it wasn’t as good as before. I’ll base this on two seasonal indicators, about Christmas and the New Year, and two regular quarterl...

A fire at a bar in the Swiss ski resort of Crans-Montana in the early hours of New Year’s Day has left dozens of people presumed dead and around 100 injured, according to authorities. Here is a look at some other nightclub, bar and music venue fires th...

The last day of December is just another day to survive. The street smelled of salt and ice, mingling with the faint smoke of barbecue from nearby homes. Small waves of heat rose from the pavement. Children ran past, their laughter bouncing off the con...

SEOUL, South Korea—The teenage daughter of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un made her first known visit to a sacred family mausoleum, a step that experts say bolsters her status as her father’s potential heir. The New Year’s Day visit has even sparked sp...

A Pulse Asia survey commissioned by Stratbase Group found that Filipinos want government leaders to make food prices affordable, reduce corruption and create more jobs in their communities. Respondents to the commissioned survey conducted from Dec. 12 ...

Following the holiday festivities, another 300 cases of firework-related injuries (FWRIs) may be recorded on top of the initial 235 logged on Thursday, the Department of Health (DOH) said. “Our Department of Health Epidemiology Bureau is continuing to ...

Acting PNP chief Lt. Gen. Jose Melencio Nartatez Jr. said investigators are looking at the possibility that a single group was behind the two smuggling operations, worth some P2.6 billion, in Malabon City and Batangas City. The Highway Patrol Group (HP...

Sell-out crowds. High TV and streaming numbers. Those are enough to make one think that the Premier Volleyball League and its teams are raking it in. The PVL undoubtedly is a great marketing vehicle for its teams and their products, as owners spend mil...

COTABATO CITY—The parliament in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) is seeking another schedule to have a crack at the pending measure to create 32 parliamentary districts, a crucial requirement to ensure that its thrice-postpon...

Philippine collegiate basketball saw the rise of two young stars last year, with Jacob Cortez helping La Salle to the Season 88 men’s title in the UAAP and Jonathan Manalili taking Letran all the way to the Finals of NCAA Season 101. They came from dif...

Coach Tim Cone believes Barangay Ginebra has all the momentum it needs going into another semifinal duel with powerhouse sister team San Miguel Beer. The Gin Kings will be coming off a dramatic quarterfinal series encounter with Converge, where they be...

Just when it seemed that the Philippine women’s football team’s knack of making one history-making feat after another had ended, the Filipinas proved otherwise near the end of last year in the 33rd Southeast Asian Games, where grit under pressure-packe...