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- Kidnap victim rescued in Laguna
- Jacksons' custody hearing delayed
- 2 Malaysian charged with human trafficking
- Obama picks career diplomat for IAEA post
- China raises Xinjiang death toll to 184
- US probe questions wiretapping effectiveness
- MJ’s hometown pays tribute to 'King of Pop'
- N. Korea's Kim to attend NAM summit
- Croatia leads US in Davis Cup, 2-0
- Evans gets boost in Tour; Armstrong trails
- Kerr leads US Women's Open golf
- Santoro reaches Tennis Hall of Fame semis
- Pierse breaks records in 200-m breaststroke
- Wall Street cautious over earnings report
- Foreigner slain in Indonesia
- CA affirms junking of estafa rap vs PCCI head
- Low-level community outbreak in Baguio—DoH
- Solons seek clear guidelines on terror alert
- Rosetta Stone sues Google over trademark
- Lozada pursues 8-yr-old lawsuit vs assailant
- Burying a child one bone at a time
- New words in US lexicon
- Senator wants ‘alarmist’ general sanctioned
- Wall Street waffles on murky economic outlook
- Oil prices fall below $60 in New York
- DSWD told to buy food for Mindanao evacuees
- No new cases of swine ebola
- Few options for US counterstrike in cyber war
- 3 Filipinos seized off Cameroon coast
- Where were they when MJ faced sex raps?
- Obama, pope meet on abortion, Mideast peace
- Gasoline tax hike untimely–Teves
- Tremors indicate risk of big California quake
- Phelps pulls out of 100m free at World trials
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Three suspected kidnappers were killed in an encounter with police in Cabuyao, Laguna Friday night, a police official said Saturday.
A Los Angeles court on Friday delayed the custody hearing for Michael Jackson's three children, which will now take place on July 20.
Two men were charged with the trafficking of two Myanmar refugees, it was reported Saturday, Malaysia's first such cases of people smuggling for the purposes of "forced labor".
President Barack Obama has picked a career diplomat to be US ambassador to the UN nuclear watchdog agency amid growing worries about North Korea and Iran's atomic drives the White House said Friday.
China on Saturday raised the death toll from unrest between Han Chinese and Muslim Uighurs to 184, as riot police and armed soldiers maintained a firm grip on the flashpoint city of Urumqi.
A US government probe has concluded that a secret wiretap program launched after the September 11, 2001 attacks had a "limited role" in preventing fresh strikes, it was revealed Saturday.
Thousands of fans paid tribute to Michael Jackson Friday in his hometown of Gary, Indiana, while mystery remained over the fate of his children as a custody hearing was postponed until later this month.
North Korea's titular head of state Kim Yong Nam left Pyongyang Saturday to attend the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) summit in Egypt, according to the North's official news media.
Croatia, the 2005 champions, opened up a 2-0 lead over the United States in their Davis Cup World Group quarterfinal here early on Saturday.
Cadel Evans showed the first signs of his new, attacking self on Friday's first day in the mountains as Tour de France rival Alberto Contador usurped teammate Lance Armstrong.
American Cristie Kerr vaulted into the lead at the US Women's Open Friday by shooting a one-under par 70 in the second round.
Two-time defending champion Fabrice Santoro won back-to-back matches Friday to reach the semi-finals of the rain-hit $500,000 ATP Hall of Fame Tennis Championships.
Annamay Pierse shattered the Canadian record and posted the third fastest time in history by winning the 200-meter breaststroke at the Canadian swimming world championship trials Friday.
Wall Street is wilting in the summer heat, with investors increasingly uncertain about an economic and earnings recovery anytime soon.
A foreigner was shot dead by unknown attackers Saturday in the massive Freeport mining concession in Indonesia's Papua region, police said.
The Court of Appeals has affirmed the lower court's dismissal of an estafa case against Philippine Chamber of Commerce and Industry president Donald Dee.
Two days after two big universities here suspended classes for a week due to the Influenza A (H1N1) infection, the Department of Health declared on Friday that Baguio faced a community outbreak.
Lawmakers on Friday warned against potential abuses by the Arroyo administration after a high terror alert in Metro Manila was declared by the military last Wednesday.
SAN FRANCISCO — Rosetta Stone, a language-learning software producer, on Friday filed a federal lawsuit against Google for infringing its trademark through Google's AdWords online advertising program.
Whistleblower Rodolfo "Jun" Lozada Jr. wants to take the witness stand again – but this time it's for a case that had absolutely nothing to do with the NBN-ZTE controversy.
TUZLA, BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA — How many times can you bury your child without going mad?
WASHINGTON – More than 100 new words, from acai to zip line via carbon footprint and waterboarding, have entered the mainstream in the United States after being added to the Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary.
Senator Pia Cayetano favors the imposition of sanctions against a military official, who sounded the alarm that three or four bombers linked to Islamist terror groups may have entered Metro Manila.
NEW YORK — US stocks finished mostly lower Friday with investors fretting over fears that recovery from the global recession remains distant.
Oil closed below the psychological barrier of $60 a barrel in New York Friday as the market focused on weak demand and risks of deflation amid a steep global downturn.
Social Welfare Secretary Esperanza Cabral Friday directed its Mindanao regional office to procure food supplies worth P2.5 million to feed hundreds of thousands of evacuees after the United Nations World Food Program (UN-WFP) suspended its relief operations due to the series of bombings in Mindanao.
The hog industry and the government alike assured the public that no new case of Ebola Reston Virus infection in Philippine swine had surfaced, saying a report in a journal cited on Friday was likely referring to the outbreak in December.
WASHINGTON — A lot of people are saying this is cyber war. But if the Internet attack on United States websites was an assault by North Korea or some other foreign government, what good responses are in America’s arsenal?
YAOUNDE — Three Filipinos and two Ukrainians have been seized from a trawler off the Cameroon coast, a source close to an investigation into the abductions said Thursday.
MIAMI — The outpouring of love for Michael Jackson’s legacy has been epic. But where was the support when he faced child molestation allegations?
VATICAN CITY— (UPDATE) US President Barack Obama on Friday promised to try to reduce abortions in his country during his first meeting with Pope Benedict XVI, while also discussing Middle East peace efforts.
The Department of Finance is seriously studying a World Bank recommendation for the government to raise the excise tax on gasoline to boost its revenues, Finance Secretary Margarito Teves said here on Friday.
LOS ANGELES – An increase in tremors deep under California's San Andreas fault may be the harbinger of a major earthquake, according to a study out Friday in the journal Science.
INDIANAPOLIS – Olympic swimming star Michael Phelps pulled out of the 100m freestyle at America's World Championship trials on Friday with a sore neck.
