Chief Justice Renato Corona's camp has until Friday to close their case, the impeachment court ruled on Wednesday. More »Impeachment court sets deadline for Corona camp to close case
Embattled Chief Justice Renato Corona has maintained he was falsely accused in his impeachment, as he lamented President Benigno "Noynoy" Aquino III's "hatred" against him. More »Corona suddenly leaves impeachment court
Senator Franklin Drilon will not bare his dollar accounts as dared by Chief Justice Renato Corona. More »Corona hit for setting condition in trial
LONDON (Reuters) - Gay and lesbian athletes from dozens of countries that outlaw homosexuality should seek asylum in Britain during the Olympic Games in London to escape persecution or even death at home, a prominent human rights activist said on Tuesday. More »Gay athletes should seek asylum during Games - activist
MANILA, Philippines - Chief Justice Renato Corona did not return to the Senate impeachment court yesterday to continue his testimony after he was diagnosed, according to the Supreme Court (SC)’s spokesman, with “a possible heart attack.” More »Corona skips Senate trial
MANILA, Philippines - After hours of voicing his anguish and lashing out at his accusers almost uninterrupted, Chief Justice Renato Corona made a quick and unceremonious exit from the Senate impeachment court yesterday, but failed to leave the premises after Senate President Juan Ponce Enrile ordered the gates locked. More »Senate locks in CJ
(Reuters) - A transgender Canadian beauty contestant who was initially disqualified from taking part in the Miss Universe Canada pageant because she was not a "naturally born female" failed to win the crown but was awarded the title of Miss Congeniality. Jenna Talackova, a tall blonde who underwent gender-reassignment surgery at age 19 and holds legal documents affirming her identity as a woman, made it into the top 12 in the Miss Universe Canada pageant on Saturday night in Toronto. She shared the title of Miss Congeniality with three other women voted on by their fellow contestants. ... More »Canadian transgender beauty contestant wins Miss Congeniality
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The estranged wife of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. died from asphyxiation due to hanging, an autopsy revealed on Thursday, in an apparent suicide at the family's suburban New York home. A spokeswoman for the Westchester County Medical Examiner's Office, Donna Greene, said the autopsy performed on Mary Kennedy, 52, revealed she died of suffocation. "The cause of death was put at asphyxiation due to hanging," Greene said. Results of toxicology tests would not be ready for several months, she said. ... More »Hanging caused death of wife of Robert Kennedy Jr. - autopsy
BEIJING (Reuters) - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad will visit China in June for a security summit and discuss his country's disputed nuclear programme with Chinese President Hu Jintao, a senior diplomat said on Wednesday, criticising new sanctions aimed at Iran. Ahmadinejad will be attending the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) meeting hosted by Beijing in June, China's Vice Foreign Minister Cheng Guoping told reporters at a briefing. ... More »Iran's Ahmadinejad to visit as China slams new sanctions
MANILA, Philippines - Chief Justice Renato Corona finally takes the witness stand today in the resumption of his impeachment trial to disprove allegations of hidden wealth, huge dollar accounts, several properties and partiality to former President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo. More »Moment of truth
GENEVA (Reuters) - Spikes in radiation caused by the Fukushima nuclear disaster were below cancer-causing levels in almost all of Japan, but infants in one town appear to be at a higher risk of developing thyroid cancer, the World Health Organization said on Wednesday. In a preliminary report, independent experts said that people in two locations in Fukushima prefecture may have received a radiation dose of 10-50 millisieverts (mSv) in the year after the accident at the power station operated by TEPCO . The 9. ... More »WHO releases mixed Fukushima radiation report
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Obama administration arranged for two Hollywood filmmakers to get special access to government officials involved in the commando operation that killed Osama bin Laden, according to a conservative legal group that posted internal government documents on its website Tuesday. Judicial Watch posted what it said were 153 pages of Pentagon documents and 113 pages of CIA documents about the film project. ... More »White House said to give inside access for Osama bin Laden film
CAIRO/ALEXANDRIA (Reuters) - Egyptians relished their first free leadership vote on Wednesday, with Islamists pitted against secular figures in a contest unthinkable before a popular revolt swept President Hosni Mubarak from power 15 months ago. Voting passed off calmly for the most part, but candidate Ahmed Shafiq, who was Mubarak's last prime minister, came under attack from protesters who threw stones and shoes at his convoy as he voted at a Cairo polling station late in the day. Shafiq, 70, was not hurt in the melee, witnesses said. ... More »With Mubarak gone, Egyptians vote freely for leader
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Two men vandalized a portrait of South African President Jacob Zuma with his genitals exposed on Tuesday, intensifying a heated debate about the picture that has enraged the ruling African National Congress. Television footage showed a white middle-aged man in a suit walking up to the portrait at a Johannesburg gallery and painting a red cross on president's face and private parts. A younger black man then smeared black paint over the picture while the first man was being taken into custody by security guards. ... More »South Africa protesters deface Zuma penis portrait
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (Reuters) - Pakistani authorities have sentenced a doctor accused of helping the CIA find Osama bin Laden to 33 years in jail on charges of treason, officials said, a move that drew angry condemnation from U.S. officials already at odds with Islamabad. Shakil Afridi was accused of running a fake vaccination campaign, in which he collected DNA samples, that is believed to have helped the American intelligence agency track down bin Laden in a Pakistani town. The al Qaeda chieftain was killed in a unilateral U.S. special forces raid in the town of Abbottabad in May last year. ... More »Pakistani doctor jailed for helping CIA find bin Laden
CANNES, France (Reuters) - Brad Pitt's latest movie paints a bleak picture of the broken American dream, blending a violent but comic gangster story with overt criticism of politicians' failure to address the economic crisis. "Killing Them Softly" takes place in an unspecified U.S. city which has borne the brunt of the financial collapse -- houses are abandoned, shops are shuttered and petty criminals and mobsters alike are struggling to get by. The movie, co-produced by Pitt, is in the main competition at the Cannes film festival this year, and has its red carpet world premiere on Tuesday. ... More »Brad Pitt mob movie portrays broken American dream
LONDON (Reuters) - Almost half of Yemen's population does not have enough food to eat and world powers are unwilling to help because of the unstable political situation, seven aid agencies said on Wednesday. The charities called for urgent aid to avert a catastrophe as representatives from Western and Arab Gulf nations were meeting in the Saudi capital Riyadh to discuss how to tackle poverty and lawlessness in Yemen, where militant group al-Qaeda are waging war against the government. ... More »Yemen starving as world stands by - aid groups
BORONGAN CITY, Eastern Samar (PIA) - To assist its members who are self-employed and those who are private employees, the Social Security System (SSS) has announced that it is open to grant educational loan assistance of R15,000 maximum to a member. More »SSS Offers Educational Loan Aid
TAYABAS CITY, Quezon - Governor David C. Suarez launched yesterday the first Advanced English Proficiency Training and Global Competitiveness Assessment Tools (AdEPT- GCAT) training program with the Business Processing Association of the Philippines (BPAP) for 50 government college English language teachers at the Quezon Science High School building in Barangay Isabang, here. The training program will run until May 30 to aid teachers in preparing graduates for the Business Processing Outsourcing (BPO) industry and help answer to the problem on unemployment in the province. (Danny Estacio) More »Better English
MANILA, Philippines - There is no need for Chief Justice Renato Corona to sign a waiver on his bank accounts because he will address all issues related to these deposits when he testifies in his impeachment trial at the Senate tomorrow, defense lawyers said yesterday. More »'CJ to address all issues'