The parents of an American software engineer who believe their son was murdered last year in Singapore withdrew from the inquest Wednesday, saying they have no confidence in the city-state’s legal process.
The Department of Justice is mourning over the “untimely demise” of Cavite Provincial Prosecutor Emmanuel Velasco, whom Justice Secretary Leila de Lima described as “one of the standout members of our National Prosecution Service.”
More than 300,000 babies die within 24 hours of being born in India each year from infections and other preventable causes, a report said Tuesday, blaming a lack of political will and funding for the crisis.
A 35-year-old farmer was so distressed after accidentally shooting his 15-year-old daughter dead he decided to commit suicide, police said.
Local officials in Pampanga are exploring other life-saving measures as they find it difficult to enforce the swimming ban in seven coastal towns along Pampanga River after seven people, five of them children, died in two incidents last week.
The body of a man who had stab wounds in the chest and who police suspected to be Korean washed up along the shore of a beach in this city on Wednesday.
A woman’s body was found dead floating in Manila Bay, police said Wednesday.
A relative of Mayor Jerome Alcantara of Donsol said Friday the cause of his death was a heart attack and not heat stroke as what was reported by the police in Donsol.
Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II and Prime Minister David Cameron said Monday they were saddened by the death of former premier Margaret Thatcher at the age of 87.
Margaret Thatcher, Britain’s first female prime minister, who died on Monday aged 87, will be remembered as “The Iron Lady” who helped end the Cold War and whose economic reforms divided the country.
Former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher, the “Iron Lady” who shaped a generation of British politics, died following a stroke on Monday at the age of 87, her spokesman said.
It’s too late now. The retired government prosecutor who had been pleading for his pension after 36 years in service is dead.
A 32-year-old vagrant, found badly beaten near a mosque on Sunday, died Friday at a Quezon City hospital, where he was being treated for his wounds.
