A male student helps a fellow female student who was wounded in a blast Friday in Kidapawan City in southern Philippines. (AP photo)
KIDAPAWAN -- Twin bomb blasts near a department store in a southern Philippine city Friday killed a child and injured more than two dozen others, authorities said.
Two improvised explosive devices went off on the sidewalk in front of the Sugni Super Store in Kidapawan city, about 100 meters (yards) apart, police and the military said.
MANILA -- People close to First Gentleman Jose Miguel “Mike” Arroyo felt that he could not and should not attend the Senate hearing on the cancelled National Broadband Network (NBN) deal with ZTE Corporation because of his health condition.
CEBU CITY -- In what appeared to be a shooting spree, two men on a motorcycle began shooting at bystanders in three different areas of Cebu City Thursday night.
DAVAO CITY –- Rescuers Friday discovered two of three small-scale miners trapped inside a tunnel when it caved in last Wednesday afternoon in the gold rush mountain of Diwalwal in Monkayo, Compostela Valley.
