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Spotify users are clearly listening to Drake. The rapper was the most streamed artist of the year globally.

An explosion on a highway overpass near a subway station in Istanbul wounded five people and was caused by a bomb, the local mayor said.

Social Media has long functioned as our online life chronicles. Online, most of us post our life milestones (moving jobs, new homes, changes in relationships) to the mundane (what we ate, where we are, what we watched). For better or worse, our social network accounts detail our lives – as we want the public to perceive it. But even that is changing. Facebook, the social media service where relationships become ‘official’, recently rolled out a ‘break-up’ feature. Now, we can limit our online presence in another person’s account. Читать дальше...

At dinner time today, the best topic to talk about is the coronation of the new UAAP champion. Will it be the crowning of University of Santo Tomas (UST)? Or will Far Eastern University (FEU) finally get redemption from last year’s disaster?

Olongapo City, Zambales — The Olongapo City Regional Trial Court (RTC) has found United States (S) Marine Lance Corporal Joseph Scott Pemberton guilty of homicide and sentenced him to a maximum prison term of 12 years for the death of transgender Jeffrey “Jennifer” Laude in October last year.

Olongapo City, Zambales — The Olongapo City Regional Trial Court (RTC) has found United States (S) Marine Lance Corporal Joseph Scott Pemberton guilty of homicide and sentenced him to a maximum prison term of 12 years for the death of transgender Jeffrey “Jennifer” Laude in October last year.

The archipelagic principle as it is now stated in the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) has a Philippine nationality, according to the only living member of the Philippine team tapped by then President Ferdinand Marcos to negotiate the landmark UNCLOS. “Why do I say that the archipelagic principle, as you now find it in the convention, has a Philippine nationality?” said former Solicitor General Estelito Mendoza during a lecture he recently delivered at the University of the... Читать дальше...

The Philippines is home to a number of talented thespians who have made their mark abroad, including Lea Salonga, Jon Jon Briones,Monique Wilson and Rachelle Ann Go.

Actor Dingdong Dantes is in the City of Lights for the 2015 Paris Climate Conference (2015 COP21).

Games Today (Smart Araneta Coliseum) 4:15 p.m. – Globalport vs NLEX 7 p.m. – Mahindra vs San Miguel It’s a small window, a tiny bit of opening, but the Mahindra Enforcers will have to squeeze through. The Enforcers can secure the separation it needs from three teams at the bottom of the standings when they go for their third win in eight games today in the Smart Bro-PBA Philippine Cup at the Smart Araneta Coliseum. One big, 6-foot-10 of a problem though: They will be up against June Mar Fajardo and defending champion San Miguel Beer. Читать дальше...

With the recent news on terrorism in Paris and other cities and countries around the world, people are becoming more and more cautious.  There is nothing wrong with being mindful of your surroundings.  In times of crisis, people will always find ways to protect, help, inform and update their community of what is really happening. As long as a user has a cellphone signal or an internet connection, he/she will be able to inform and update their loved ones of  their location and present condition. Here... Читать дальше...

Former Metro Rail Transit 3 (MRT) General Manager Al Vitangcol III and five others were charged before the Sandiganbayan over the alleged irregularities in the MRT-3 maintenance contract.

The Commission on Elections (Comelec) Second Division has disqualified Senator Grace Poe from running for president in the May 2016 polls.

With the phenomenal popularity of the segment KalyeSerye on the noontime show Eat Bulaga, the artists who are collectively known as ALDub (Alden Richards and Yaya Dub, played by Maine Mendoza) have received their very own stars on the Philippine Walk of Fame located in Eastwood City. In addition to Alden and Maine, Wally bayola (Lola Nidora), Paolo Ballesteros (Lola Tidora) and Jose Manalo (Lola Tinidora) were also part of the Philippine Walk of Fame. Event photo courtesy of Eat Bulaga’s twitter... Читать дальше...

A young FBI agent infiltrates an extraordinary team of extreme sports athletes he suspects of masterminding a string of unprecedented, sophisticated corporate heists. “Point Break” is inspired by the classic 1991 hit that starred Keanu Reeves and the late Patrick Swayze. Official movie poster courtesy of imdb.com

Beijing ordered hundreds of factories to shut down and allowed children to skip school as choking smog reached over 25 times safe levels today, casting a cloud over China's participation in Paris climate talks.

Dingdong Dantes represented the National Youth Commission (NYC) during the Paris assembly tasked to seal a post-2020 international agreement to curb greenhouse gas emissions and hopefully avert the worst effects of climate change.

US President Barack Obama called on Russia and Turkey to move beyond a furious row over the downing of a fighter jet and focus on the Islamic State jihadist group, after meeting his Turkish counterpart in Paris on Tuesday.

SEOUL, South Korea — The Samsung conglomerate appointed a new mobile president at its flagship Samsung Electronics for the first time in six years after growth stalled at the world's largest smartphone maker.

These ducks serve as natural pest busters and sources of organic fertilizer as they are herded through a rice field by this farmer in Carmen, North Cotabato. (Keith Bacongco)

Daycare children dressed as the ‘Three Wise Men’ bearing gifts and Saint Joseph are among the 2,000 kids and parents who took part in yesterday’s Christmas parade in Baguio City. (Zaldy C. Comanda)

THORNABY, ENGLAND - Vintage toys linked to the "Star Wars" film franchise are moving faster than a swirling lightsaber, sending prices of many of them soaring into hyperspace.

The IMF will add the yuan to its basket of reserve currencies, an international stamp of approval of the strides China has made integrating into a global economic system dominated for decades by the U.S., Europe and Japan.

The Supreme Court (SC) issued a temporary restraining order (TRO) that stopped the Commission on Elections (Comelec) from implementing its “No Bio, No Boto” policy until the constitutional issue against it raised by several groups is settled on its merits.

SEOUL - South Korean rapper Psy, who catapulted to fame in 2012 with hit song "Gangnam Style", released his latest album on Monday, which includes a song featuring American rapper will.i.am.