The death toll from super typhoon ‘Juan’ rose to 17 on Wednesday while estimated damage to agriculture, fisheries, and infrastructure rose to around P5 billion, reports from various government agencies said.

At least 20 have been injured while the number of families affected by ‘Juan’ increased to over 63,000 households, according to the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (NDRRMC).

Based on the latest field reports from the NDRRMC, over 332,000 people were displaced by the typhoon in Regions I, II, III, IV-A, the Cordillera Administrative Region (CAR), and the National ...

Washington (CNN) -- More bullets struck the Pentagon in a shooting Tuesday than initially thought, officials said.

"It has been determined that at least six shots were fired," Steven Calvery, director of the Pentagon Force Protection Agency, said in a statement Wednesday. "As previously stated, two exterior windows were impacted by bullets. Upon investigation, it has been determined that four other bullets hit the Pentagon's facade."

Calvery said the investigation was ongoing and the FBI was evaluating evidence, including video footage from ...

JOHANNESBURG — Nelson Mandela failing classes, fussing over his children, fighting with his wife.

This is not the anti-apartheid icon of "Long Walk to Freedom," Mandela's 1995 autobiography. "Conversations with Myself," which goes on sale Tuesday in 22 countries and 20 languages from Catalan to Turkish, presents a more human Mandela, faults, frailties and all.

"Conversations" was compiled with the 92-year-old former South African president's blessing by a team of archivists, editors and collaborators who worked from decades of notes, letters, recorded conversations and other material.

In a foreword, US President Barack Obama writes that Mandela, who largely retired from public life in ...

(Updated 6:00 p.m., August 26, 2010) The day started with a group of Hong Kong tourists happily visiting historical Fort Santiago. It ended horrifically in Luneta, last seen on television in President Aquino's moment of ascendancy. GMANews.TV has constructed a timeline of the hostage drama that ended in massacre, not in some faraway province but in the heart of the nation.

The following chronology of events on August 23 is based on the live coverage of GMA News and Super Radyo DZBB, and reports from BusinessWorld ...

MANILA, Philippines - The spokesperson of former President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo revealed that the government’s crisis management mechanisms would have been discussed with the Aquino administration had they agreed to a proposed joint Cabinet meeting before June 30, 2010.

Elena Bautista-Horn was asked by ABS-CBN News about existing government protocols for crisis management, and if these would have been among those turned over in a joint Cabinet meeting last June.

“Probably, this would have been discussed (sa joint Cabinet meeting),” she said.

Horn further explained that former President Joseph Estrada himself had a memorandum ...