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Kat De Guzman | Feb 23, 2015 04:03 AM EST
A new video was posted by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) jihadist group, showing Kurdish peshmerga soldiers being paraded on the streets of Iraq as they are locked in individual cages. read more
Arlene Lim | Feb 23, 2015 04:17 AM EST
Ukraine PM Arseniy Yatsenyuk says Ukraine is not on the brink of collapse. He also reports the EU-brokered ceasefire is really not in effect. read more
Raymond Legaspi | Feb 23, 2015 04:14 AM EST
A girl, who could be as young as 7 years old, set off a suicide bomb in northeastern Nigeria that left seven people dead on Sunday. read more
Raymond Legaspi | Feb 23, 2015 01:49 AM EST
Former New York City Mayor and Republican presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani admitted receiving death threats following his sharply criticized comment that President Obama "does not love America" because of the chief executive's "upbringing." read more
Raymond Legaspi | Feb 22, 2015 11:26 PM EST
Lee Kuan Yew, who is Singapore's most senior statesman and the founding minister seen as responsible for the city-state's economic miracle, is being treated in a hospital for a grave case of pneumonia. read more
Raymond Legaspi | Feb 22, 2015 11:22 PM EST
A ferry passenger collision with a trawler on Bangladesh's Padma river sent at least 39 people to their deaths on Sunday, police said. read more
Raymond Legaspi | Feb 22, 2015 11:18 PM EST
The U.S. is stepping up security around shopping malls, especially Minnesota's Mall of America, after Somali-based al Shabaab militants called for attacks on retail outlets in Minnesota, Canada and Britain. read more
Vittorio Hernandez | Feb 22, 2015 04:12 AM EST
Residents who live in The Torch recount that the flame was travelling by floors through burning materials that fell on balconies. An official of the building said on Saturday that the fire didn't just travel though balconies but was probably started as a carelessly thrown cigarette butt on a balcony. read more
Raymond Legaspi | Feb 21, 2015 06:54 PM EST
The World Health Organization has chosen for distribution a short 15-minute test for Ebola that significantly reduced the time it takes to find out - with enough precision - whether a person is a carrier of the fatal virus. read more
Geann Pineda | Feb 21, 2015 06:52 PM EST
Plans are in place for the 25,000-strong Iraqi army to retake the Iraqi city of Mosul from the hands of the ISIS. read more
Raymond Legaspi | Feb 21, 2015 06:18 AM EST
China announced on Friday it was formally protesting the visit of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi to the contested territory of the northeastern state of Arunachal Pradesh. read more
Vittorio Hernandez | Feb 21, 2015 03:24 AM EST
A TV documentary shown on German channel ZDF portrayed Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin as a wife beater. It claimed that Putin regularly beat wife Lyudmila, a former Aeroflot cabin crew. read more
Vittorio Hernandez | Feb 21, 2015 03:19 AM EST
North Korean leader Kim Jung Un's new hairdo and eyebrows, which he showed to the public for the first time on Wednesday at the meeting of the Workers' Party of Korea in Pyongyang, is not only the talk of the town. read more
Vittorio Hernandez | Feb 21, 2015 12:55 AM EST
The Torch, a 79-storey skyscraper in Dubai standing over 330 meters, lived its name as it caught fire on early Saturday. Hundreds of tower occupants were evacuated from one of the tallest residential buildings in the United Arab Emirates city. read more
Vittorio Hernandez | Feb 20, 2015 10:00 PM EST
For accepting, together with her husband, Rolexes, dinners and vacations worth about US$165,000 from a businessman, former Virginia First Lady Maureen McDonnell was sentenced on Friday one year and one day prison term on 9 counts of corruption. read more
Due to the coronavirus, people around the world have canceled their travel plans. Governments and health officials have warned the public to avoid boarding cruise ships and long flights. read more
