Brazil’s presidential race in disarray after stunning death of candidate in plane crash

Neymar completes 1st team practice with Barcelona since injuring back

BARCELONA, Spain—Neymar has returned to team training with Barcelona for the first time since fracturing a vertebra in his back at the World Cup. Barcelona says...

Fashion remembers Lauren Bacall as the icon who wore the clothes not the other way around

NEW YORK—Lauren Bacall had one condition when the Fashion Institute of Technology wrote recently to ask if it could turn hundreds of personal garments she donated...

Protests turn violent in St. Louis suburb

FERGUSON, Mo. — Police used tear gas and smoke bombs to repel crowds who threw Molotov cocktails during another violent night on the streets of a...

Jed Mabilog: Regaining Iloilo’s moniker as the ‘Queen City of the South’

Armed with a dogged determination and unmatched energy to revive Iloilo’s place in history as the “Queen City of the South,” Iloilo City Mayor Jed Patrick...

Palestinians mull Egyptian proposal for Gaza truce

CAIRO — Palestinian negotiators are mulling over an Egyptian proposal to end the month-long Gaza war with Israel, as the clock on the latest 72-hour cease-fire...

Lawmaker seeks speedy and impartial public trial of Palparan

MANILA — Akbayan party-list solon on Wednesday lauded the swift action of the court for setting the arraignment of retired Major Gen. Jovito Palparan Jr., this...

MRT-3 train derailed at Taft Station

MANILA — (UPDATED 5:18 PM PH time) A Metro Rail Transit train was derailed at Taft MRT Station in Pasay City at around 3:30 PM. According...

Pope kicks off new effort to boost missionary spirit in Asia with trip to South Korea

VATICAN CITY—When Pope Francis was a young Jesuit, he wanted to follow in the great Jesuit tradition and become a missionary in Asia. Health problems kept...

Palace: Palparan arrest a ‘positive development’

MANILA — Although long overdue, Malacanang on Tuesday said the arrest of retired army general Jovito Palparan Jr. is still a positive development. “Ang pagkadakip ni...