12:57 pm | Lira Dalangin-Fernandez, InterAksyon.com
At least 71 countries have lined up to question the Philippine delegation when the country presents its human rights record to the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva, Switzerland on May 29, the group Philippine Universal Periodic Review Watch said.
12:13 pm | Ben Cal, Philippine News Agency
The Migrant Heritage Commission (MHC), a leading service institution for immigrants in Washington DC, has predicted that Filipino-Mexican-American Jessica Sanchez will win the prestigious American Idol singing competition title during the finals on Wednesday (May 23, Manila time).
10:24 am | Reuters
The NATO summit in Chicago endorsed an exit strategy that calls for handing control of Afghanistan to its own security forces by the middle of next year but left questions unanswered about how to prevent a slide into chaos and a Taliban resurgence after allied troops are gone.
9:59 am | Agence France-Presse
Youth joblessness is almost back at its peak following the outbreak of the global economic crisis and is unlikely to ease until at least 2016, the International Labor Organization warned Tuesday.
8:13 am | Michael Mathes, Agence France-Presse
More than a million Chinese counterfeit electronic parts are estimated to be in use in US military aircraft, according to a US Senate report released Monday saying the discovery jeopardizes safety and national security.
7:37 am | Agence France-Presse
More than a third of malaria drugs examined by scientists in Southeast Asia were fake, and a similar proportion analysed in Africa were below standard, doctors warned on Tuesday
6:57 am | Agence France-Presse
Youth joblessness is almost back at its peak following the outbreak of the global economic crisis and is unlikely to ease until at least 2016, the International Labor Organization warned Tuesday.
6:05 am | Chris Francescani, Reuters
A New Jersey woman said on Monday that she was dismissed from a temporary job at a New York lingerie warehouse because her male employers felt she was too busty and dressed too provocatively for the workplace.
6:00 am | Agence France-Presse
A ghost-hamlet in rural France that became a global media sensation for failing to find a buyer was auctioned off on Monday to South Korean artist Ahae for 520,000 euros ($663,000).
5:15 am | Agence France-Presse
A powerful solar telescope billed as the largest in Europe opened Monday on Spain's Canary Islands which scientists say will allow them to study the sun in unprecedented detail.
4:30 am | Rana Moussaoui, Agence France-Presse
Street battles between pro- and anti-Syrian groups in Beirut killed two people on Monday, a security official said, sparking concerns of a wider conflict in Lebanon.
4:23 am | Richard Carter, Agence France-Presse
Germany and France pledged Monday to do whatever was needed to keep Greece in the eurozone, as political turmoil in the debt-wracked country threatens to force it out of the club.
3:27 am | Sebastian Smith, Agence France-Presse
An Indian immigrant college student convicted of illegally filming his gay roommate on a webcam received a big break Monday when a judge sentenced him to just 30 days behind bars, not the possible 10 years.
2:23 am | Agence France-Presse
Italian doctors in March implanted the smallest ever artificial heart into a 16-month-old baby before the infant received a permanent organ donation, said the hospital that performed the operation.
1:59 am | Mohammed Ghobari and Tom Finn, Reuters
A suicide bomber with explosives strapped under his uniform killed more than 90 people at a military parade rehearsal in the Yemeni capital Sanaa on Monday, an attack which will alarm Washington as its involvement in the front-line state deepens.
11:34 pm | Mynardo Macaraig, Agence France-Presse
Lady Gaga rocked the Philippines Monday, defying critics and state censors as thousands of fans, many of them dressed as outrageously as she was, roared their approval.
11:07 pm | Agence France-Presse
China on Monday criticized a vote by the US House of Representatives last week requiring the United States to sell 66 new fighter jets to Taiwan, describing the measure as interference by Washington.
9:47 pm | Agence France Presse
Facebook shares plunged more than eight percent below the IPO price of $38 in opening trade Monday, after fizzling in their debut Friday.
9:34 pm | Agence France Presse
Aung San Suu Kyi will make a speech in Oslo next month to accept the Nobel Peace Prize she was awarded in 1991, as part of her first trip outside Myanmar in 24 years, the Nobel Committee said Monday.
8:58 pm | Pots de Leon, InterAksyon.com
The Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) has ordered its regional offices to monitor the status of some plantation workers who could have been affected by China's decision to defer the importation of at least 1,500 containers of bananas from the Philippines.
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