WASHINGTON - In what could be one of the hardest blows to al-Qaeda since the US campaign against the terrorist organization began, the group's No. 3, Mustafa Abu al-Yazid, is believed to be dead, killed by a US Predator drone strike, a US official said Monday (Tuesday in Manila).
BEIJING - A Chinese supercomputer has been ranked the world's second-fastest machine in a list issued by US and European researchers, highlighting China's ambitions to become a global technology center.
Heavy rains triggered flooding in several parts of Sultan Kudarat town in Maguindanao and Cotabato City before dawn Tuesday.
Share prices on the Philippine Stock Exchange (PSE) slipped in moderate trading Tuesday, hounded by the absence of market-moving news as US markets overnight were closed for a holiday.
China has condemned Israel's deadly commando raid on ships taking humanitarian aid to the blockaded Gaza Strip in which at least nine people were killed and dozens wounded.
The secessionist Moro Islamic Liberation Front wants the Organization of the Islamic Conference to help the millions of displaced Moros by sending a development team to war-torn areas in the southern Philippines.
SHANGHAI - Global manufacturers struggling with life-or-death pressures to control costs are finding that the legions of low-wage Chinese workers they rely on have limits.
EL SEGUNDO, California - Andrew Bynum didn't play in the 2008 NBA finals, but he remembers how it all ended. Boston Celtics fans celebrated their clinching victory by throwing rocks and other projectiles at the Los Angeles Lakers' departing bus, also rocking it back and forth.
President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo's former election lawyer hit the Commission on Elections on Tuesday for retracting the proclamation of Ang Galing Pinoy, the party-list group of the president's son.
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