A passenger ferry sank in the northern Philippines in a second sea disaster in three days. Six bodies, including three children, were recovered and at least 22 people...

A passenger ferry collided with a fishing boat in the Philippines, killing three people and leaving search and rescue crews combing the water for dozens more who...

President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo has added her voice to the chorus calling on world leaders to reach a substantive and politically binding deal at the UN climate...

Philippine President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo lifted martial law in the country’s south, which she declared after the massacre of 57 people last month, Philippine...

The private army accused of a civilian massacre in the southern Philippines has killed at least 200 other people, the country’s human rights commissioner said...

The son of a Philippines clan boss, suspected of the massacre of at least 57 journalists and political activists, turned himself in today, as investigators announced...

The suspected mastermind of Monday’s massacre in the southern Philippines is the son of a powerful local politician who is also a key local supporter of the...

The Philippines placed two southern provinces and a city under emergency rule on Tuesday after gunmen killed 46 people in a brutal election-related massacre that has...

The wife of a candidate for governor and about 30 others were abducted Monday morning in the southern Philippines — with at least 21 of them later killed, army...

At least five people have died in a shooting incident in the Northern Mariana Islands in the Pacific. The gunman killed four local people in the main island of Saipan,...

Communist rebels killed 12 security forces when they responded to an attack on a logging company in the southern Philippines, the military said Friday. At least one...

Muslim militants beheaded a school principal on a remote southern island in the Philippines after holding him for ransom for three weeks, a marine general said on...

I know I should be attending more to my car repairs and house repainting (I was a victim, too, of the recent massive flooding of Metro Manila, thanks to Cyclone...

Rescuers struggled through mud and pounding rain Friday to clear mountain roads and retrieve more than 160 dead from dozens of landslides that buried villages and cut...

A powerful typhoon Saturday battered extreme northern Philippines with forceful winds and heavy rains, but spared the capital and surrounding areas still recovering...

Victims of floods in the Philippines trudged through ankle-deep sludge to crowded relief centres in search of scarce food and clean water today, as the government...

Rescuers pulled more bodies from swollen rivers and debris-strewn streets Tuesday, pushing the toll from flooding in the northern Philippines to more than 284 dead or...

Passengers leapt into the dark sea and parents dropped children into life rafts when a ferry carrying nearly 1,000 people capsized in the middle of the night in the...

The global effects of recession have resulted to numerous setbacks worldwide. Conflicts among nations, particularly the war against terrorism, worsen the situation....

The fighting was sparked by military raids on Abu Sayyaf militant training camps in the villages of Silangkum and Baguindan on the southern island province of Basilan,...