FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — Relatives of some of the 346 people who died in two crashes involving Boeing 737 Max planes are expected in court on Friday, where their lawyers will ask a federal judge to throw out a plea agreement that the aircraft manufacturer struck with federal prosecutors. The...
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea has accused rival South Korea of flying drones to its capital to drop anti-North Korean propaganda leaflets and threatened to respond with force if such flights occur again. South Korean army soldiers patrol along the barbed-wire fence in Paju, South...
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — A nighttime Russian missile strike on Odesa killed at least four people including a 16-year-old girl, regional authorities said Friday, in the latest in a series of attacks this week on the southern Ukrainian region that are likely intended to disrupt the country's grain...
VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis met Volodymyr Zelenskyy at the Vatican on Friday, the latest step on the Ukrainian president's European tour to win support for his proposed "victory plan" aimed at ending the war with Russia. Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, left, arrives for a...
QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) — Gunmen killed 20 miners and wounded seven others in Pakistan's southwest, a police official said Friday, drawing condemnation from authorities as a search was launched for the assailants. Injured men receive treatment at a hospital in Quetta, Pakistan, Friday, Oct....
Hours after the artificial intelligence pioneer Geoffrey Hinton won a Nobel Prize in physics, he drove a rented car to Google's California headquarters to celebrate. This photo combo shows the 2024 Nobel Prize winners in Physics, professor John Hopfield, left, of Princeton University, and professor...
The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded Friday to Nihon Hidankyo, a Japanese organization of survivors of the U.S. atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, for its activism against nuclear weapons. Toshiyuki Mimaki, right, president of Nihon Hidankyo, or the Japan Confederation of A- and H-Bomb...
The International Finance Corp. (IFC) has green-lit a loan package for Filipino firm Asialink Finance Corp. (AFC) to help boost small business lending in the Philippines. The private-sector lending arm of the World Bank Group (WBG) disclosed on Friday, Oct. 11, that the senior loan financing...
The World Bank has cited progress in the Department of Agriculture's (DA) rural development project scale-up, for which the Philippines borrowed $600 million or over P34 billion last year. "The overall project's initial implementation performance is considered satisfactory. Implementation and...
Guinness World Records (GWR) and Parrot Analytics, the leader in worldwide entertainment analytics and content valuation, have revealed the most in-demand TV shows in the world with the release of the Guinness World Records 2025 book. "In today's ever-expanding media landscape, it's...
The Commission on Higher Education (CHED) announced on Wednesday, Oct. 9, that globally ranked Philippine higher education institutions (HEIs) continue to increase, with six HEIs now ranked in the newly released 2025 Times Higher Education (THE) World University Rankings. (CHED / MB VIsual Content...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump has had as many as seven private phone calls with Vladimir Putin since leaving office and secretly sent the Russian president COVID-19 test machines during the height of the pandemic, Bob Woodward reported in his new book, “War." Republican presidential nominee...
