A Mindanao lawmaker is urging the Department of Foreign Affairs to begin preparing to issue Philippine passports valid for up to 10 years, or double the current five.

Salvador Sobral clinched Portugal's first ever Eurovision victory since it first entered the annual contest in 1964.

Pope Francis said on Saturday he would be "sincere" with US President Donald Trump over their sharp differences on subjects such as immigration and climate change when the two hold their first meeting at the Vatican later this month.

Troops of the 401st Infantry Battalion are tracking down New People's Army guerrillas who allegedly abducted a small mine operator in Bayugan City, Agusan Del Sur Saturday.

Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana said there are plans to construct a naval base in Casiguran town, Aurora as part of the government's efforts to secure Benham Rise.

The events of the last ten months have given a whole dimension to my understanding of the burdens of motherhood.

(UPDATE - 11:16 a.m.) Police shot and killed a county jail inmate receiving treatment at a hospital near Chicago after he grabbed his guard's gun and took a female hospital employee hostage on Saturday, the sheriff's office said.

The Syrian army and its allies are on the verge of completely seizing the rebel-held district of Qaboun on the edge of the capital following over two months of relentless aerial strikes and artillery shelling, rebels and state media said on Sunday.

At least four people died and five more were injured when a passenger train derailed in northern Greece on Saturday night, railway company TRAINOSE said.

The United States said Saturday the world's other rich economies were getting used to the policy plans of President Donald Trump, but Europe and Japan showed they remained worried about Washington's shift.

(UPDATE 2 - 12:03 p.m.) North Korea fired on Sunday a missile from a region near its west coast that flew 700 kilometers, with the US and Japan hinting it could be a new type of projectile.

President Rodrigo Duterte attributed the increase in his 2016 income to excess contributions to his campaign in last year's elections.

(UPDATE 2 - 12:24 p.m.) President Rodrigo Duterte arrived in Beijing Saturday to attend the Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation but was a no-show at the opening ceremony Sunday morning.

Leading hospital "superbugs," known as enterococci, originated well before the age of dinosaurs, a new study said Thursday.

BEIJING - Ambassador to China Jose Santiago Sta. Romana told journalists at the weekend that the bilateral consultative mechanism for addressing the issues in...