SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Sidewalks once teeming with tents, tarps and people passed out next to heaps of trash have largely disappeared from great swaths of San Francisco, a city widely known for its visible homeless population. The number of people sleeping outdoors dropped to under 3,000 in...
Young Filipino math aces have bagged 224 more medals so far this year from various mathematics contests abroad, bringing their 5-year total to 6,538 medals. This was announced over the weekend by the Mathematics Trainers' Guild Phils. (MTG) which has been mentoring math-gifted students from both...
Photo from Las Piñas PIO The Las Piñas city government encouraged city residents to avail free technical vocational courses to earn extra income for three months or six months starting October 1. Mayor Imelda Aguilar said residents who wanted to study may visit and enroll at the Las Piñas...
Photo from Pasay police Three Chinese nationals and a Filipino involved in a road rage that turned into a shooting incident were arrested in Pasay City early Saturday morning, September 21. Pasay City police officer-in-charge P/Col. Samuel Pabonita identified the suspects as alias Xiaolei, 40;...
A father in Marikina City who accidentally witnessed a road accident is now seeking justice after discovering that the victim involved was his son. Photo from Mario Antonio's (Mario Lomboy) Facebook post Mario Lomboy, the father of the 22-year-old victim, John Marc, took to social media to seek...
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — A major Ukrainian drone attack set multiple Russian arms depots ablaze, destroying what Ukraine's General Staff said were thousands of tons of weaponry, including missiles from North Korea. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy attends a joint press conference with...
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Below United Nations headquarters, a state-of-the-art security post dubbed the "Brain Center" hums with activity on the eve of next week's high-level meeting of the U.N. General Assembly. The annual diplomatic pilgrimage is bringing more than 140 world leaders to New...
KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — Authorities in Congo said they released 600 prisoners in the country's main prison on Saturday as part of a process aimed at decongesting overcrowded prisons. Relatives greet some of the 600 prisoners released from Democratic Republic of the Congo's capital Kinshasa's...
PHOENIX (AP) — Vice President Kamala Harris will skip this year's Al Smith charity dinner in New York, breaking with presidential tradition so she can campaign instead in a battleground state less than three weeks before Election Day. Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala...
BALTIMORE (AP) — Federal agents on Saturday boarded a vessel managed by the same company as a cargo ship that caused the deadly Baltimore bridge collapse, the FBI confirmed. FILE - The collapsed Francis Scott Key Bridge rests on the container ship Dali, May 12, 2024, in Baltimore, as seen...
DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — An Israeli strike on a school in northern Gaza on Saturday killed at least 22 people, according to the Gaza Health Ministry, while the Israeli army said it targeted a Hamas command center in what used to be a school. People protest against Prime Minister...
BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) — The Lebanese militant group Hezbollah announced that it fired a barrage of missiles at a military base deep inside Israel early Sunday following an Israeli airstrike more than a day earlier that killed at least 37 people, including one of the militant group's senior...
