A member of the Moro National Liberation Front was arrested for allegedly shooting to death a porter in Cotabato City on Thursday, the city police chief said on Friday.

At least three suspected communist rebels were killed in a clash with soldiers and policemen in Mexico, Pampanga, on Friday morning, Army and police officials said.

A moderate earthquake struck the Mindoro Island Friday morning around 150 kilometers south of Metro Manila.

Malacanang has issued a memorandum circular (MC) extending for another three months the services of non-career executive officials (non-CESO) occupying career executive positions.

BOISE—BP came face-to-face Thursday with victims of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill during a first court hearing into the case, which is likely to become one of the nation's biggest civil trials.

Two confessed accomplices of an alleged agent of a Swedish company have admitted they planted fake hardware tools bought in Quiapo and used an invoice manufactured in Recto to obtain a search warrant from a Nueva Ecija court to be served on a warehouse in Bulacan.

Res ipsa loquitur, the thing speaks for itself. The Latin adage in law will clear former Commission on Elections (Comelec) Chair Benjamin Abalos in the bribery case he is facing, said his lawyer, Salvador Panelo.

The Philippine consulate general in Hong Kong is awaiting further instructions from the home office after detained Ilocos Sur Rep. Ronald Singson (1st district) declined its offer of assistance in his drug trafficking charges in the Chinese territory.

ROME—Following is a list of the films that will compete in the September 1-11 Venice film festival.

A concert, benefit variety show featuring GMA7’s Starstruck young talents caps today the blood donation program dubbed “Patak-Patak sa Kadugo,” highlight of the month-long celebration of the Blood Donors Month.

The Department of Energy (DOE) yesterday said fuel supply in Metro Manila has normalized, after the pipeline that delivers fuel from Batangas to the Pandacan depot in Manila resumed operations last July 24.

A Quezon City court yesterday dismissed a civil case against the education department’s sex education program after the petitioning group itself moved to withdraw the complaint.

President Benigno Aquino III has signed the executive order reorganizing the Office of the Press Secretary into the Communications Group (ComGroup) to be headed jointly by two secretaries with Cabinet rank.

NEW ORLEANS—Two New Orleans police officers were indicted Thursday on federal charges in connection with the beating death of a civilian in their custody in July 2005, the Justice Department said.

Hundreds of government officials who are not career executive service officers (CESOs) have asked President Benigno Aquino III to withdraw Memorandum Order No. 1 which declared their positions vacant as of June 30.

United States Ambassador to the Philippines Harry Thomas welcomed the guilty plea entered by Abu Sayyaf Group founding member Madhatta Haipe to four counts of hostage taking of 16 Filipino and American citizens in Mindanao in 1995 before a US federal court Thursday.

President Benigno Aquino has appointed his election lawyer Joel Cadiz as the new Solicitor General, spokesperson Edwin Lacierda said last night.

Long-time peace negotiator and former press secretary Jesus Dureza offered, on Thursday, to quit his post as chairman of the newly created Mindanao Development Authority (MinDA) despite a fixed term of six years set by law.