Southeast Asian nations and China should start with a "gentleman's agreement" on the busy South China Sea waterway because no mechanism exists to legally enforce any deal, Foreign Affairs Secretary Alan Peter Cayetano said on Friday.

President Rodrigo Duterte said government should improve the regulation of public ownership of high-powered firearms and ammunition to prevent these weapons from ending up in the hands of criminals and rebels.

US President Donald Trump was hit on Friday by embarrassing leaks that a senior adviser was a "person of interest" in a probe of possible collusion with Russia during last year's election campaign and that Trump had boasted to Russian officials of firing the man heading the investigation.

Bourdain will also be in town to look for food vendors from the Philippines to join his New York international food market, whch is set to open in 2019.

The US military on Friday scrambled two Air Force fighter jets to escort an American Airlines flight into Honolulu International Airport after a disturbance was reported on board, a Pacific Command spokesman said.

In a study, researchers reported that plant life on Antarctica, especially moss, is growing rapidly, in the last 50 years.

French researchers said they had found a last-chance way for technicians to save Windows files encrypted by WannaCry, racing against a deadline.

Two persons were killed and four others arrested in a police anti-drug operation in Cotabato City Friday afternoon.

Here are major global cyber-attacks in recent years.

Former FBI Director James Comey, who was fired by President Donald Trump last week amid an agency probe into alleged Russian meddling in the US election, has agreed to testify before the US Senate Intelligence Committee at a public hearing, the committee said in a statement on Friday.

As the Netflix logo hit the screen, sections of the crowd booed, and a technical glitch halted the screening.

Amid the bashing from her critics, Vice President Leni Robredo said she finds comfort and hope in the travails and triumphs of the ordinary folk she has met in the one year since assuming office.

Featuring over a dozen indie acts, the concert happens Saturday night at the Mall of Asia Arena.

'I know that he loved our children, and he would not hurt them by intentionally taking his own life.'

The business community manifested a somewhat surprised mood at the slower growth of the economy for the first three months this year, prompting Manuel...