Estrada moves to Manila home
Wednesday, May 9, 2012 -FORMER President Joseph Estrada will be moving to his house in the City of Manila today, Wednesday.
Estrada has long been a resident of San Juan City.
California may ban gay teen 'conversion' therapy
Wednesday, May 9, 2012 -SACRAMENTO, California — A first-of-its-kind ban on a controversial form of psychotherapy aimed at making gay people straight is speeding through the California legislature.
Supporters said the legislation, which passed its final Senate committee Tuesday, is necessary because such treatments are ineffective and harmful.
Fire razes store in Butuan City
Wednesday, May 9, 2012 -A BODY was recovered in a fire that continues to raze a store Wednesday morning in Butuan City, radio report said.
The fire broke out around 4 a.m. at the second floor of the Novo Jeans and Shirts Enterprise along JC Aquino-Montilla Boulevard, where more than 20 are stay-in workers.
China has expelled reporter
Wednesday, May 9, 2012 -BEIJING — Al-Jazeera's sole English-language reporter in China has been expelled, the pan-Arab news network said Tuesday. It's the first time since 1998 that Beijing has kicked out an accredited foreign journalist.
Melissa Chan's expulsion is seen as China's latest attempt to punish international media whose reports the authoritarian government dislikes and sees as besmirching its global image. The move "seems to be taking China's anti-media policies to a new level," Bob Dietz, the Asia coordinator for the Committee to Protect Journalists, said in a statement.
Top-ranked Djokovic, Azarenka advance in Madrid
Wednesday, May 9, 2012 -MADRID — Novak Djokovic needed three sets to win his first match on the blue clay at the Madrid Open on Tuesday, and then stepped up his criticism of the new surface.
Djokovic labored to a 6-2, 2-6, 6-3 victory over Daniel Gimeno-Traver of Spain in his debut on the Magic Box's unorthodox surface, after top-ranked Victoria Azarenka and Maria Sharapova both beat Czech opponents to advance in the women's event.
Movie, television board to probe Tulfo brothers' program
Wednesday, May 9, 2012 -THE Movie and Television Review and Classification Board (MTRCB) is set to investigate the Tulfo brothers’ program, “T3,” at TV 5 after they aired threats against celebrity couple Raymart Santiago and Claudine Barretto.
Erwin and Ben Tulfos's statements on Monday came after their brother, Ramon Tulfo, was engaged in a brawl with the celebrity couple.
Peru dolphin, pelican die-offs appear unrelated
Wednesday, May 9, 2012 -LIMA, Peru — The carcasses of dead pelicans still litter the beaches of northern Peru, even as the last of nearly 900 dolphins are slowly being cleared away.
The mass die-offs have Peruvian scientists searching for a cause and environmentalists raising questions about the government's ability to protect the Pacific nation's marine life, among the world's most abundant thanks to the Humboldt current that hugs most of its 1,500-mile (2,400-kilometer) coast.
Tiger Woods hopes to stick around at Sawgrass
Wednesday, May 9, 2012 -PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Florida — Tiger Woods is about the only person not in a panic about his game.
These remain curious times for the guy trying to show he can still dominate golf as he once did. In his last four tournaments, Woods walked off the course in the middle of the final round at Doral with tightness in his left Achilles tendon, won by five shots at Bay Hill for his first PGA Tour title in 30 months, was an also-ran at the Masters with his worst performance there as a pro and missed the cut at Quail Hollow for only the eighth time in his career.
Myspace settles privacy probe with FTC
Wednesday, May 9, 2012 -WASHINGTON — Myspace, the once-mighty social network ultimately toppled by Facebook, settled a privacy investigation by the Federal Trade Commission and agreed to submit to privacy audits over the next 20 years.
The settlement, over charges that Myspace misrepresented its privacy policies to users, is similar to deals the FTC struck previously with Facebook Inc. and Google Inc.
Carnapping cases plunge in April: police
Tuesday, May 8, 2012 -MANILA -- The Philippine National Police (PNP) said on Tuesday that carnapping incidents in the country continue to drop in April as preventive police operations were stepped-up against organized crime groups.
In a report, the PNP Highway Patrol Group (HPG) said that carnapping incidents fell by 68.3 percent to 39 carnapping cases in April from 123 cases during the same period last year.
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Philippine Lotto Results
Game | Combinations |
|---|---|
| 6Digit | 3-8-2-7-8-5 |
| Swertres Lotto 11AM | 5-2-2 |
| Swertres Lotto 4PM | 9-6-0 |
| Swertres Lotto 9PM | 5-5-4 |
| EZ2 Lotto 9PM | 21-14 |
