At the World Weightlifting Championships, which will be held from December 5 to 16 in Bogota, Colombia, Olympic champion Hidilyn Diaz will lead the Philippines’ medal charge as she returns to action. Diaz and eight other Filipino weightlifters are aiming for podium places at this year’s global championships, which will be held in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. Diaz will compete in the …

A combined operation led by the National Bureau of Investigation in Central Visayas (NBI-7) on November 30 rescued a girl in Barangay Pasil, Cebu City, who had reportedly been subjected to months of online sexual exploitation and torture at the hands of her own mother. Officials from the NBI Cebu District Office, the Inter-Agency Council Against Trafficking, and the Department …

On Monday, December 5, Valentino designer Pierpaolo Piccioli and model Bella Hadid were among the winners at the London Fashion Awards. At the annual ceremony, Piccioli, the creative director of the Italian luxury brand, was chosen designer of the year. Hadid, a frequent face on the catwalks of Milan, Paris, London, and New York, was named model of the year. …

Schonny Winston, La Salle’s electrifying superstar in UAAP Season 85, appeared ready to earn league MVP honors by midseason after averaging 21.3 points, 6.1 rebounds, 3.6 assists, and 3 steals per game. But everything changed so quickly. Early in the second round, a reported calf issue hampered Winston. And during La Salle’s most important game of the season, he did …

During the live coronation night that was conducted on December 4 at the FilOil EcoOil Center in San Juan City, Iona Gibbs, a native of Bataan, was hailed as the next Mutya ng Pilipinas 2022. Iona came out on top over the competition of 37 other contestants to take the crown from Klyza Castro, who had previously won the national …

On December 4, Bob McGrath, who was most remembered for his role as one of the original human actors on Sesame Street, passed away. He had been ill for some time. He was 90. On McGrath’s Facebook page, his family members broke the news of his passing to friends and followers. It was announced today that our father, Bob McGrath, …

Monday, December 5th, thousands of residents in East Java, Indonesia, were placed on high alert after a strong eruption at the island’s largest volcano caused authorities to enforce an 8-kilometer no-go zone and evacuate entire communities. The provincial search and rescue agency dispatched teams to the worst-affected districts near Mount Semeru to examine damage, according to Tholib Vatelehan, a spokesperson …

Three female teachers formerly employed at a nursery school in Susono, a city in central Japan near Mount Fuji, were detained on suspicion of routinely abusing toddlers in their care on Sunday. The teachers were detained hours after police searched the private school in response to the city’s Wednesday statement that they were engaged in 15 incidences of abuse between …

State Track of Thailand (SRT) officials said on Sunday that train travel on the railway connecting Thailand and Malaysia has been banned as officials investigate a bomb explosion that derailed a freight train early yesterday afternoon. The explosion derailed 11 of the cargo train’s 20 cars and seriously damaged rail tracks in the Sadao area of Songkhla province, according to …

For decades, Singapore’s government upheld the controversial 377A statute, which prohibited intercourse between two men and was inherited from British control. Authorities stated that it demonstrated Singaporean society’s disapproval of homosexuality. However, its parliament revoked the rule this week, just months after Premier Lee Hsien Loong’s unexpected statement that the ban would be lifted due to changing opinions. The repeal …