Car crashed by the steel frame of a big billboard toppled by strong winds when typhoon Milenyo hit Manila Thursday. (AP photo)
MANILA -- A powerful typhoon cut across the northern Philippines Thursday, hitting the capital with gale-force winds and pounding rain and leaving at least 11 people dead and 34 others missing amid widespread floods and damage, officials said.
CEBU CITY -- Two college students and a utility man working for the customs bureau were killed in a shooting attack late Wednesday night in Cebu City, about 200 meters away from a police station.
DAVAO CITY -- The Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) will wait for the government's official communication on its stand on the issue of ancestral domain before it issued any statement.
MANILA -- Malacañang will subsidize the fees of nursing graduates who have to retake tests three and five of the 2006 nursing board exams, but will insist on the new round of tests despite the students' objections.