Outside Bethlehem's Church of the Nativity in the Palestinian West Bank, there are no festive lights strung overhead and no sign of the huge tree normally erected to celebrate the event that Christians believe took place on this spot 2,000 years ago: t...

Pope Francis turned 87 on Sunday feted by children who helped him blow out a single candle on a white cake.

"The team described the emergency department as a 'bloodbath,' with hundreds of injured patients inside, and new patients arriving every minute," WHO said, adding that "patients with trauma injuries were being sutured on the floor... [and] no pain mana...

President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. discussed boosting maritime safety and energy cooperation with Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, Malacañang reported Sunday.

Firecrackers were found to have been the cause of the fire that hit a van parked at the BFCT East Metro Transport Terminal in Calumpang, Marikina on Sunday morning.

More than 100 Philippine Offshore Gaming Operator (POGO) workers, mostly Chinese nationals, would be deported after Christmas, the Bureau of Immigration (BI) said Sunday.

The Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines (CAAP) said airports are now on heightened alert in anticipation of the expected increased volume of passengers during the holiday season. 

LONDON -- Britain on Monday condemned what it called "unsafe and escalatory tactics deployed by Chinese vessels" against the Philippines over the weekend in the South China Sea.

The Philippines on Monday described the actions of Chinese vessels against its boats carrying out South China Sea resupply missions over the weekend as a "serious escalation."

The Philippine military on Tuesday said it is not yet time to invoke the country's Mutual Defense Treaty (MDT) with the United States despite China's water cannon attacks on Philippine vessels in the West Philippine Sea.

Taiwan's new de facto ambassador to the United States, Alexander Yui, arrived in Washington on Monday, according to a tweet from a U.S. official, taking up Taipei's highest-profile diplomatic post at a sensitive time ahead of the island's election in J...

Kuwait reaffirmed its rejection for the inclusion of any call for phasing out fossil fuels consumption and production in the COP28 draft final climate deal, Oil Minister Saad Al Barrak said in statements to Kuwait's state news agency (KUNA) on Monday.

Two persons were injured when fire hit several houses in Happyland in Tondo, Manila early Tuesday morning, the Bureau of Fire Protection (BFP) said.

An earthquake of magnitude 5.5 struck Salta province, Argentina on Monday, the German Research Centre for Geosciences said.

Heavy urban battles raged Monday in the bloodiest-ever war in Gaza, with more than 18,200 Palestinians and 104 Israeli soldiers reported dead amid a spiraling humanitarian crisis.

A gunman killed two people and wounded a third in the Swiss alpine town of Sion on Monday morning, and a suspect was later arrested, police said.

Former Quezon City mayor Herbert Bautista on Monday pleaded not guilty in the graft case lodged against him over a P25 million solar project and computerization program during his tenure as city mayor in 2019.

Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny has been removed from the penal colony where he had been imprisoned since the middle of last year and his current whereabouts are not known.

Nakabalot sa plastik at halos hindi na makilala ang bangkay ng isang lalaki na ilang araw nang nawawala nang matagpuan sa isang maisan sa Batangas City.

UN Security Council envoys spoke of unimaginable suffering and urged an end to the war in the Gaza Strip on Monday as they headed across Egypt's Sinai Peninsula to the Rafah crossing, the besieged Palestinian enclave's only entry point for aid.

Isang rider ang nasawi, habang kritikal ang isa pa, matapos na magsalpukan ang minamaneho nilang motorsiklo sa Concepcion, Tarlac.

A 12-year-old protester burst on to the stage at the COP28 climate summit in Dubai on Monday, holding a sign above her head that read: "End fossil fuels. Save our planet and our future."

Pumanaw na ang 44-anyos na reggae singer na si Kokoi Baldo matapos maaksidente sa Bacolod City.

BAGHDAD -- The US Embassy in Baghdad was attacked with two salvos of rockets on Friday morning but there were no casualties, an embassy spokesperson said.

Nasawi ang isang Filipino-American state trooper o pulis sa Las Vegas, pati na ang kaniyang kasamahan matapos silang banggaan at takbuhan ng isang sasakyan na lasing ang nagmamaneho sa Interstate 15 sa Nevada, USA noong nakaraang linggo.

Pinagnakawan at pinatay sa loob ng kaniyang bahay ang isang babae sa Baguio City.

Senator Imee Marcos on Friday called on the government to file cases against smugglers of agricultural products to prevent high costs of basic commodities.

The Office of the Presidential Adviser on Peace, Reconciliation and Unity (OPAPRU) has assisted the Bangsamoro government in extending assistance to the victims of the deadly bomb attack at Mindanao State University (MSU) in Marawi City on Sunday.

The Land Transportation Office (LTO) is easing the implementation of its “no registration, no travel” policy for the rest of December “in the spirit of the Yuletide season.”

Nadakip ang isa sa mga suspek sa pagpapasabog sa Mindanao State University (MSU) sa Marawi City noong Linggo, ayon sa militar.

The government should speed up the establishment of specialized hospitals like the Philippine Heart Center (PHC) in different regions, Senator Imee Marcos said Friday.

The Quezon City Regional Trial Court has found former Ozamis City vice mayor Nova Princess Parojinog guilty of drug possession and sentenced her to life imprisonment and a fine of P500,000 to P10 million.

The Southeast Asian bloc ASEAN on Friday strongly condemned what it called a "heinous terrorist attack" in the southern Philippines during last weekend in which four people were killed in a bombing at a Catholic Mass.

The Christmas convoy to the West Philippine Sea left Manila for Palawan on Friday morning.

The gunman who killed three professors and wounded one at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, was a financially struggling academic whose job applications were rejected by several higher-education institutions in Nevada, police said on Thursday.

Filipino fishermen in San Salvador Island in the Masinloc municipality told the Thomson Reuters Foundation that China was using speedboats and water cannon to block access to an area that is inside the Philippines exclusive economic zone (EEZ) but was ...

The Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) on Friday said it has already informed China that a Chinese-flagged bulk carrier vessel allegedly hit a Filipino boat in the waters near Paluan, Occidental Mindoro.

The Israeli military said Monday that 11 hostages released in the Gaza Strip were back on Israeli territory.