(UPDATE - 1:27 p.m.) At least 16 people were killed when a U.S. military plane crashed in rural Mississippi on Monday evening, a regional emergency management official said.

After some 500,000 kilos of meat from Brazil tested positive for salmonella, the Bureau of Animal Industry is considering a blanket ban on imports from the South American country even if this inflates market prices in the short run.

With Islamic State all but ejected from one if its former capitals and surrounded in the other, members of a 72-nation coalition meet in Washington this week to try to ensure the battlefield victories do not, once again, evaporate amid new sectarian strife.

United States Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley aims to put to a vote within weeks a U.N. Security Council resolution to impose stronger sanctions on North Korea over its long-range ballistic missile test, said several senior U.N. diplomats.

A U.S. Army sergeant who served in Iraq and Afghanistan and is now stationed in Hawaii has been arrested on charges of providing material support to Islamic State extremists, the Federal Bureau of Investigation said on Monday.

An American woman wanted for kidnapping her own children and fleeing to the Philippines was arrested by Immigration agents late last week in Subic, Zambales.

Four suspects were killed while a barangay tanod was arrested in the course of an anti-drug operation in Malolos City, Bulacan early Tuesday morning, police said.

The actress acted as tour guide to her ex-boyfriend and his pals on the sixth and final episod of 'Lakbai.'

He will be honored for his work in films like 'Saving Private Ryan,' 'Apollo 13' and 'Bridge of Spies.'

Sealed behind the steel doors of two bunkers in a Beijing suburb, university students are trying to find out how it feels to live in a space station on another planet, recycling everything from plant cuttings to urine.

A U.S. aircraft carrier strike group began naval exercises with India and Japan on Monday that the U.S. navy said would help the three countries tackle maritime threats in the Asia-Pacific region.

Iraq's prime minister declared victory over Islamic State in Mosul on Monday, three years after the militants seized the city and made it the stronghold of a "caliphate" they said would take over the world.

Four Arab states sought on Monday to pile pressure on Qatar over charges it backs terrorism, saying the publication of a previously secret accord between Riyadh and Doha showed Qatar broke a promise not to meddle in the affairs of Gulf countries.

(UPDATE - 10:04 a.m.) Donald Trump Jr. has hired a lawyer to represent him in Russia-related investigations, his office and the lawyer said on Monday, as Republicans voiced concern about a meeting between the U.S. president's son and a Russian.

Two jail inmates died of illness this month in Cavite and Rizal provinces, bringing the total of deaths from sickness in detention facilities in the Calabarzon region since January to 54.