NEW DELHI, India — India’s heatwave is the longest ever to hit the country, the government’s top weather expert said Monday as he warned people will face increasingly oppressive temperatures. Parts of northern India have been gripped by a h...

GENEVA — Switzerland will stage a conference on Ukraine this coming weekend, with world leaders set to discuss how to reach an eventual peace process — although Russia is not taking part. The gathering comes immediately after the G7 summit ...

Charlie Dizon considers her “Third World Romance” co-star and now-husband Carlo Aquino her “lucky charm” after her Best Actress win at the 47th Gawad Urian Awards. Held at De La Salle University last June 9, Dizon was named Best Actress for her perform...

MANILA, Philippines — A radio reporter was allegedly attacked by jeepney drivers protesting in front of the Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board and Land Transportation Office in Quezon City on Monday. But the strikers claimed the journ...

Payton Pritchard doesn’t care much about what his line in the stat sheet looks like, which is one of the many things that endears him to Joe Mazzulla and the Boston Celtics. He was sent into Game 2 of the NBA Finals with 3.3 seconds remaining in the th...

CEBU CITY, Philippines — The Cebu City government is looking at how they could incorporate the singing of the “Bagong Pilipinas” (“New Philippines”) hymn into their Monday morning flag ceremony at Plaza Sugbo. Acting Mayor Raymond Alvin Garcia said tha...

MANILA, Philippines — Former Sen. Gregorio “Gringo” Honasan is likely to run for the Senate in the upcoming midterm elections. “Siguro (maybe) on a scale of one to 10, [there is a probability of] eight [to] nine [for me to] go back to the Senate,...

Enjoy the comforts of a 5-star luxury hotel with the allure of old-European culture at Andaz Prague     The thing with modern luxury hotels these days—sure their service is impeccable, the food is to die for, the rooms and the architecture ar...

LIVONIA, Mich. — A tiny, low-priced electric car called the Seagull has American automakers and politicians trembling. The car, launched last year by Chinese automaker BYD, sells for around $12,000 in China, but drives well and is put together with cra...

CEBU CITY, Philippines — To address the water crisis in Cebu City, Acting Mayor Raymond Alvin Garcia is willing to “talk and sit down” with the officers in charge of the Metropolitan Cebu Water District (MCWD). Garcia, who said this in a press conferen...

MANILA, Philippines — Based on Pagasa’s latest computed heat index forecast, Dagupan City in Pangasinan is expected to once again record the highest heat index for the day at 47ºC. READ: Red Cross reminds public to stay hydrated amid high heat index Me...

Mumbai, India — Twelve people were killed and at least 60 injured after a billboard collapsed during a fierce storm in India’s financial capital Mumbai, officials said Monday. An excavator was digging through the wreckage as rescuers raced to fin...

ANKARA — Turkey announced Monday a three-year austerity plan aimed at reducing public spending to calm inflation that reached heights of nearly 70 percent year-on-year in April. The government said it will limit recruitment and transport spending for p...

MANILA, Philippines — Overcast skies and rain should be expected over parts of extreme northern Luzon on Tuesday, while generally fair weather and isolated thunderstorms are forecast in the rest of the country, the state weather bureau said. “Isang fro...

New York, United States — Donald Trump’s one-time fixer and the star prosecution witness at the former president’s criminal trial testified Monday how the then-Republican candidate directed him to pay a porn actress to bury revelations of a...

NEW YORK — A fraud trail began Monday for the founder of a hedge fund that cost leading global investment banks and brokerages billions of dollars when it collapsed. A prosecutor portrayed Bill Hwang, the founder of Archegos Capital Management, as a gr...

CEBU CITY, Philippines— Waking up in the morning and you feel something cold on your lap or hear panting on your ears. You look to your side and there you see your little or big ray of sunshine waiting for you wake up. May 14 is dubbed as the Bond With...

NEW YORK — U.S. stock indexes drifted to a mixed finish Monday, hanging near their record heights. The S&P 500 edged down by 1.26, or less than 0.1 percent, to 5,221.42 after flipping between small gains and losses throughout the day. It remains wi...

The man at the center of the pandemic meme stock craze appeared online for the first time in three years, sending the prices of the quirky and volatile shares sharply higher Monday. Keith Gill, better known as “Roaring Kitty,” posted an image Sunday on...

Los Angeles, United States — Philanthropist Melinda French Gates announced Monday she was leaving the nonprofit foundation she established with her ex-husband Bill Gates — an organization that has become one of the most influential in the world. ...

Kanhi beauty queen nga si Ana Monica Tan nicall out sa mga organizer sa Miss Philippines Earth 2024 tungod sa ilang “unprofessional treatment” kuno ngadto niya sa dihang gikuha siya isip usa sa mga judge sa coronation night niadtong Mayo 11. Tan, nga u...

MANILA, Philippines — The Philippine government on Monday cautioned China against blocking a civilian mission at Panatag (Scarborough) Shoal intended to uphold the country’s sovereignty over the West Philippine Sea (WPS). The “Atin Ito” (This Is Ours) ...

This is the Daily Gospel for today, May 14, 2024, which is the feast of Saint Matthias, apostle. READ MORE: Daily Gospel, May 13 Daily Gospel, May 10 Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint John 15, 9-17. Jesus said to his disciples: “As t...

MANILA, Philippines — The National Task Force for the West Philippine Sea (NTF-WPS) is stepping up its watch of marine features in the country’s exclusive economic zone (EEZ) following traces of ongoing reclamation activities in one of the shoals, its ...

MANILA, Philippines — While it has already distanced itself from the issue, the Commission on Elections (Comelec) said embattled Bamban, Tarlac Mayor Alice Guo may be charged with perjury if she is proven to have misrepresented herself as a Filipino ci...

MANILA, Philippines — The return to the old school calendar that begins in June may come sooner after the Department of Education (DepEd) bared plans to open school year 2024-2025 on July 29 and end it on March 31 next year. This will pave the way for ...

MANILA, Philippines — Matters regarding maritime security and law enforcement, including the inspection of foreign private yachts, fall under the jurisdiction of the Philippine Coast Guard (PCG), the Department of Justice (DOJ) said on Monday. Sen. Fra...

MANILA, Philippines — The Commission on Human Rights (CHR) on Monday said it had “no conflict” with the Special Human Rights Committee that President Marcos established last week under Administrative Order (AO) No. 22. “There is no conflict because we ...

TRUCKEE, California — A weekend spring storm that drenched the San Francisco Bay area and closed Northern California mountain highways also set a single-day snowfall record for the season on Sunday in the Sierra Nevada. The wet weather system had mostl...

LONG BEACH, California — Police on Sunday were searching for suspects in a late-night shooting that wounded seven people, four critically, in Long Beach, California. At least two gunmen were suspected of opening fire on a group of people around 11:15 p...

JAKARTA — Indonesia’s economic growth accelerated in the first quarter of 2024 on the back of election and religious holiday spending, official data showed Monday. Southeast Asia’s largest economy expanded 5.11 percent, Statistics Indonesia...

MANILA, Philippines — The UST Tigresses found themselves surrounded by doubts and uncertainties after losing their key cogs led by star spiker Eya Laure. The challenges, however, didn’t stop the young Tigresses from pulling off the biggest surpri...

Are you excited about the upcoming ‘Deadpool & Wolverine‘ movie? I am. It is an upcoming movie that has given moviegoers excitement, anticipation, and hope, all because of the official teaser and trailer, which have perfectly captured t...

MANILA, Philippines — Agriculture Secretary Francisco Tiu Laurel Jr. said his team was not consulted when Administrative Order (AO) No. 20 — which removed non-tariff barriers on the importation of farm products — was crafted. During the hearing of the ...

MANILA, Philippines — President Ferdinand “Bongbong” R. Marcos Jr.’s move to certify as urgent the amendments to Republic Act No. 11203 or the Rice Tariffication Law will be critical to improving lives, Speaker Ferdinand Martin Romualdez sa...

MANILA, Philippines — A male passenger at the Davao International Airport is facing charges after making a bomb joke at the airport’s check-in counter, said the Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines (CAAP) on Monday. According to CAAP in a statem...

CEBU CITY, Philippines — The Kartzone Cebu Racing Team will get better and better.  Kartzone’s team manager Juan Antonio Carcel and coach William John Riley Go strongly believed so after they swept the recently concluded 2024 Petron Blaze 100 Rok...

FRANKFURT, Germany  — In the latest round of their decades-long battle for dominance in commercial aircraft, Europe’s Airbus established a clear sales lead over Boeing even before the American company encountered more fallout from manufacturing problem...