Filipina American artist Thea Canlas has been named the winner of the 2026 Janet and Walter Sondheim Art Prize, receiving the $30,000 award for her work exploring diasporic Philippine identity. Thea was announced as the winner Aug. 27 during an awards ceremony at the Walters Art Museum in...
Liza Soberano is taking on a new role in the international film scene as part of the jury for the Golden Globes Impact Prize for Documentary, which will be awarded during this year’s Venice Film Festival. The prize is a new initiative of the Golden Globes and Artemis Rising Foundation, with...
TOKYO (Jiji Press)--Susumu Tonegawa, the first Japanese laureate of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, died on Saturday at the age of 86, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, to which he belonged, announced Thursday. Tonegawa, from the central Japan city of Nagoya, received the Nobel...
Filipino-American Pablo Torre, host of “Pablo Torre Finds Out,” has won a Pulitzer Prize for audio reporting after exposing an alleged salary cap loophole within the NBA’s Los Angeles Clippers team. In four episodes of his podcast released last year in September, Pablo reported extensively...
NEW YORK (AP) — The Washington Post won the Pulitzer Prize for public service for scrutinizing the Trump administration’s sweeping, choppy overhaul of federal agencies, and The Associated Press won the award Monday for international reporting about surveillance. In a year...
NUUK, Greenland (AP) — U.S. President Donald Trump linked his aggressive stance on Greenland to last year’s decision not to award him the Nobel Peace Prize, telling Norway’s prime minister that he no longer felt “an obligation to think purely of Peace,” in a text message released Monday....
A solo bettor won the P19 million jackpot of Lotto 6/42 in the 9 p.m. draw on Tuesday, December 30, the Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office (PCSO) announced. The winning combination for Lotto 6/42 was 06-32-29-24-37-04, producing one jackpot winner who will take home P19,004,723.60. PCSO records...
OSLO, Norway (AP) — Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday. The former opposition presidential candidate was lauded for being a “key, unifying figure in a political opposition that was once deeply divided — an opposition that found common ground...
STOCKHOLM (AP) — Hungarian writer László Krasznahorkai, whose surreal and anarchic novels combine a bleak world view with mordant humor, won the Nobel Prize in literature Thursday for work the judges said upholds the power of art in the midst of “apocalyptic terror.” The Nobel judges said...
The Ramon Magsaysay Award Foundation (RMAF) will announce the 2025 Ramon Magsaysay Awardees—the region’s most prestigious honor celebrating transformative leadership and service—on August 31 through a global broadcast. The announcement coincides with the 118th birth anniversary of President...
A lone player correctly guessed the winning numbers for the Lotto 6/42 on Tuesday, June 3, which had a total prize of over P102 million, according to the Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office (PCSO). During the 9 p.m. draw, the winner matched the winning combination 05 - 22 - 14 - 03 - 23 - 11 for...
Pritzker Architecture Prize winner Chinese architect Liu Jiakun interacts with a scale model of the West Village project at his office in Chengdu in southwestern China's Sichuan province on Sunday, March 2, 2025. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan) The annual Pritzker Architecture Prize has been awarded to Liu...
