MANILA - Pope Francis has requested a simple meal in Leyte with special guests: survivors of super typhoon Yolanda and the Bohol earthquake. Palo, Leyte Archbishop John Du gave a sneak peek into the Philippine itinerary of the Catholic church's top ...

WASHINGTON - A leading US medical school is set to pay $190 million to patients of a gynecologist who secretly photographed and videotaped them in his office, lawyers said Monday. At least 8,500 women are party to the class action suit involving Johns ...

MANILA - Typhoon Glenda has moved to the West Philippine Sea after killing at least 13 people in the Philippines. State weather bureau PAGASA, in its latest severe weather bulletin issued 5 p.m. Wednesday, said the tropical cyclone was last spotted 160 ...

President Benigno Aquino III and US President Barack Obama faced members of the media in a joint press conference in Malacañang Palace on Monday. Both leaders were asked questions mainly about the Enhanced Defense Cooperation Agreement ...

MANILA - Can the new defense agreement between the Philippines and the US keep China at bay? When US President Barack Obama sets foot on Philippine soil on Monday, there is no question the Enhanced Defense Cooperation Agreement (EDCA), ...

SEOUL - Samsung Electronics Co Ltd's new Galaxy S5 smartphone should outsell its predecessor and defy predictions that the South Korean titan's latest model will struggle in a tough market for high-end handsets, a top executive said. The world's biggest ...

MANILA - Philippine Institute of Volcanology and seismology (Phivolcs) announced on its advisory that no destructive tsunami will result from the 7.8-magnitude earthquake that took place off Solomon Islands at the South Pacific on Sunday. From the released ...

SEOUL - The two Koreas traded live fire into the sea across their disputed maritime border on Monday, after Seoul said a North Korean military exercise dropped shells into South Korean waters. "Some of the shells fired by North Korea dropped in our area ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Facebook revealed Thursday it has a lab working on using drones, satellites and solar-powered planes to provide web access around the world. "We've been working on ways to beam Internet to people from the sky," Facebook co-founder ...

PERTH - The search for wreckage from Flight MH370 was called off Thursday for the second time this week as the weather worsened in the Indian Ocean with planes and ships ordered out of the area. "Today's search operations have been suspended due to ...