(UPDATE - 12:57 p.m.) Two former chairs of the Commission on Human Rights - detained Senator Leila de Lima and Loretta Ann Rosales - have joined a petition asking the Supreme Court to order a joint session of Congress to review President Rodrigo Duterte’s declaration of martial law in Mindanao.

Poetry readings, a memorabilia exhibit, and film screenings are just some the activities marking the great Filipino writer's centennial celebration.

While acknowledging that the continuing crisis in Marawi City, the subsequent declaration of martial law in Mindanao, and last week’s carnage at Resorts World Manila have had an impact on tourism, government officials maintain this is “temporary in nature” and “we can still reach targets.”

Apple unveiled new plans to spice up its digital assistant Siri to work across iPhones, iPads, Macs and a new home speaker device called HomePod.

One of the opposition lawmakers who have asked the Supreme Court to revoke President Rodrigo Duterte’s declaration of martial law over Mindanao blasted Solicitor General Jose Calida for “badmouthing” them and advised him to carefully study their petition.

Apple Inc introduced the HomePod, a voice-controlled speaker that can make music suggestions and adjust home temperatures, taking aim at Amazon.com Inc's Alexa feature and Echo devices.

The husband of White House adviser Kellyanne Conway criticized President Donald Trump's tweets about the administration's temporary travel ban on Monday, saying they were undercutting the Justice Department's ability to defend his policies.

"Kissing the mucus and flesh of corals with self-lubricating lips was not what we were expecting," said marine biologist Víctor Huertas of James Cook University in Australia.

David Rank, the chargé d'affaires of the U.S. Embassy in Beijing, has left the State Department over the Trump administration's decision to quit the 2015 Paris agreement to fight climate change, a senior official said on Monday.

The Light Rail Transit Line 1 will be introducing a new timetable that will increase the number of its weekday trips, the Department of Transportation said Tuesday.

The remastered version of the 1967 album sold more than 75,000 units to take the No. 3 spot on the Billboard 200.

The U.S. Department of Justice on Monday charged a federal contractor with sending classified material to a news organization that sources identified to Reuters as The Intercept, marking one of the first concrete efforts by the Trump administration to crack down on leaks to the media.

The town of Sultan Kudarat in Maguindanao was declared in a state of calamity Monday after some 20,000 residents when overflowing rivers flooded 16 villages.

Y.O.U. competed against finalists from Hong Kong, Indonesia, Mexico, Russia, Japan, U.S., Vietnam, and South Korea.

(UPDATE - 12:49 p.m.) Marines recovered some P52.2 million in cash and P23.7 million worth of stale cheques from a house in Barangay Mapandi, Marawi City that had been a strongpoint of extremist gunmen battling government forces over the past two weeks.