ZHENGZHOU, China – Piles of cars were strewn across a central Chinese city Thursday as shocked residents picked through the debris of a historic deluge that claimed at least 33 lives, with rescue efforts ongoing and hundreds seeking to find their relatives. An unprecedented downpour dumped a...
QUITO, Ecuador – Riots at two prisons in Ecuador left at least 21 inmates dead, authorities said Thursday as the country grappled with its second wave of deadly prison violence this year. Another 50 people were injured including some police officers. Elite police units regained control of...
MAYEN, Germany – Heavy rains and floods lashing western Europe have killed at least 59 people in Germany and nine in Belgium, and many more people are missing as rising waters caused several houses to collapse on Thursday. In Germany, which is experiencing one of the worst weather disasters...
ALLAHABAD, India – Partly hidden between long reeds of grass, bodies shrouded in saffron cloth float silently down the holy Ganges river, a reminder of how India's ferocious coronavirus wave overwhelmed hospitals and crematoriums. Families in India's north and east gave up the bodies of...
DHAKA, Bangladesh – At least seven people were killed and another 50 people were injured after a powerful explosion ripped apart a three-storey building in central Dhaka on Sunday, Bangladeshi officials said, citing a gas pipeline as the likely cause. Police said the explosion was so...
The Quezon City Police District (QCPD) has identified the two individuals who were ambushed inside their car on a rainy Wednesday night in New Manila. Police said the victims, 29-year-old Mark Anthony Ballesteros and 27-year-old Darrel Anne Bonifacio, “have standing warrants of arrest issued by...
President Duterte said the government's peace negotiations with the communist rebels were "dead on its tracks" as they asked too much from the government. President Rodrigo Duterte delivers a televised address on May 5, 2021 (Malacañang photo) Duterte made the statement during his interview with...
The police officer who was initially reported to have shot himself dead in Quezon City turned out to have been killed by a fellow police after losing in an arm wrestling during their drinking session. The Quezon City Police District (QCPD) bared Tuesday after a follow-up investigation that Cpl....
The term #PulisAngTerrorista (Police are terrosists) trended on Twitter Tuesday morning following the shooting and killing of another civilian by a police officer in just a month. #PulisAngTerrorista made it to the top list of Twitter trends, with at least 17,100 tweets as of noon, after Master...
An alleged drunk police officer killed a 52-year-old woman by dragging her by the hair before shooting her dead in Quezon City Monday night. Police identified the suspect as M/Sgt. Hensie Zinampan, of the Police Security Protection Group, who was caught in a video firing a shot at Lilibeth Valdez....
SCREENCRUNCH: And that’s not a bad thing Dave Bautista as Scott Ward (Netflix) Just with its first 15 minutes, which was made available on YouTube ahead of the film’s release, Zack Snyder’s “Army of the Dead” already got my attention. What follows after those adrenaline-pumping first few...
The plate numbers of the vehicles used by the two assailants during an ambush in Marikina City last Thursday (May 27) belong to tricycles registered in the provinces of Nueva Ecija and Cotabato. Scene of the Crime Operatives (SOCO) personnel process the crime scene where Nomer Cardines, a retired...
