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Paris, France — The string of coordinated attacks in and around Paris late Friday left at least 128 people dead, in the worst such violence in France’s history. The assailants struck at least six very different venues, ranging from the national sports stadium to a pizzeria. As Cable News Network (CNN) reported the fatalities rising to 153 on Saturday, the overall toll was still expected to rise. In declaring three days of national mourning, French President President Francois Hollande blamed the... Читать дальше...

A weekend for a 16-year-old consists of waking up late, going out with friends, playing basketball, lazing around, and maybe, when he’s feeling particularly “energetic,” squeezing in some homework in between. Kesz Valdez does none of that. Instead, you would find him in dump sites, cemeteries, and slum areas leading a team of volunteers and teaching street children everything from proper hygiene to children’s rights. But then again, Kesz is not your ordinary teen. In 2013, when he was just 13 years old... Читать дальше...

ANGEL THOUGHTS A man who honors his mother will give his wife a life of royalty.—Anonymous   “We had to change the attitude of the Filipino toward his own country,” Tourism secretary Ramon Jimenez, Jr. noted in a TV interview recently with columnist Ichu Villanueva. Apparently, he has succeeded with his simple, encompassing message to the world and to Filipinos: “It’s more fun in the Philippines!” More than 80,000 Pinoys have posted their own version of the tourism campaign and thousands, too, have come home to travel locally. Читать дальше...

“I wanted to do that, too,” she said. I could hear her voice in my head, but it was muffled. She was halfway around the world. It was one of the last conversations we were to have before she bid me goodbye and at the end of the day, the “net of discussion,” it was for the best. Because maybe I really did just want to forget. I’ll never know. I leave those thoughts behind as I throw myself into the water column. BOOM. …SPLASH! …BANG! (or was it?) Truth is, there’s no onomatopoeic way to describe the... Читать дальше...

The changes on TV5 have worried some of its talents, but not Ogie Alcasid. In fact, the singer-host simply deems it business as usual.

Making people laugh is never easy. Go ask Edgar “Bobot” Mortiz, director of long-running ABS-CBN comedy gag show “Banana Split.”

In a show of oneness with the indigenous Lumads who have camped at Liwasang Bonifacio, Luis Antonio Cardinal Tagle, archbishop of Manila, joined them in their protest last Wednesday. Donning a tribal headgear offered to him by the demonstrators, he stood out in his simple garb as a priest as he posed with the indigenous folk in their colorful native costumes. But there was no doubt that he was one with them in their appeal for peace and justice. As early as last September, the Catholic Bishops’ Conference... Читать дальше...

Actress Jessy Mendiola is trying to defy gravity and rise above the series of controversies that hounded her in past months.

Sofronio Española, Palawan – Everything that happened in one of the dense forest areas of this sleepy municipality that late night of February 21, 2014, remains vivid to Felipe Ilustrisimo, who thought it would be the end of his life.  “A native had called our office complaining that there were two men with chainsaws logging in their area. So, Attorney Chua called me and told me to check on the area and verify,” Ilustrisimo – known  as “Ipe” among the locals – narrated to the Manila Bulletin. Watch Story’s online videoInstructions: 1. Читать дальше...

To the lifestyle set, event master of spectacle Jun Jun Ablaza is known to be a visual icon that constantly unravels the unconventional with his trademark visual culture. The 2015 Ablazablaze, entitled “Precious Presents Artwear + Artcessories Exhibition Party and A Celebration of Life,” was held recently at the Manila Polo Club. His sophisticated birthday celebration unveiled the unbridled imagination of his art and proved that it is powerful, both culturally and aesthetically.

PARIS, France -- Multiple attacks which claimed at least 120 lives in Paris on Friday night are the latest in a string of incidents in France this year with suspected links to radical Islam.

MOSCOW -- Russian President Vladimir Putin's absence of the upcoming Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit is out of consideration for optimizing schedules, presidential aide Yuri Ushakov said Friday.

The regional chief of the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (CIDG) died on Friday the 13th due to severe internal hemorrhage after his car crashed along the North Luzon Expresway (NLEx).

PARIS -- The Paris prosecutor's office says that eight attackers are dead after a string of attacks around the French capital, seven of them in suicide bombings.

MOSCOW -- Gunmen opened fire in multiple Paris locations on Friday evening, resulting in several casualties. Explosions were also heard nearby. Over 150 people have been killed, according to French authorities.

NEW YORK, United States -- New York lit One World Trade Center, the tallest building in America, red, white and blue in solidarity with France after attackers killed at least 120 people in Paris.

LOS ANGELES — If you were going to reinvent MTV for a mobile generation, you'd probably come up with something like YouTube Music. It's a video-first music service that also plays in the background like you'd expect a music app to do. That sets it apart from other music apps out there, many of which give you a choice of videos or songs, but not interchangeably.

Certain roads in the Makati Central Business District will be closed from November 16 to November 19, 2015 in relation to the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit.

SINGAPORE -- Singapore's Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong will attend the G20 summit as well as the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Economic Leaders' Meeting starting from Nov. 15, announced the Prime Minister's Office (PMO) on Friday.

SALT LAKE CITY — The Mormon church is standing behind its new rules targeting gay members and their children that generated widespread blowback from members, while providing more explanation about them.