(Reuters) – Jimmy Kimmel’s late night show “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” has been extended for two more years, ABC said on Tuesday, sealing the late-night line-ups across the main U.S. networks for the next few years. Kimmel, 46, has presided over the show for 11 seasons. He moved to an earlier, high-visibility 11:35 p.m. time slot in January 2013, where ratings increased despite head-to-head competition from veteran David Letterman on CBS and NBC’s “Tonight Show,” which […]
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Easterlies bring cloudy afternoons, rain in the evening
Fair, warm and humid weather will be experienced all over the country due to the easterlies, but said weather system will bring rain in the afternoon.
MRT express train starts trial operations
MRT-3 Express Train starts trial operations today. The Express train aims to sped up commuters’ travel time by lessening the number of stops made by the said train.
United States promises to send help in rescuing girls kidnapped by a militant group in Nigeria
In the wake of a video released by the leader of a Nigerian militant group that kidnapped 230 girls, saying that they are planning to sell them to neighboring countries like Cameron and Chad, United States President Barack Obama promised that United States will send help to rescue the kidnapped girls.
PATAKARAN – Case Law
Can employers prohibit their workers from forming romantic relationships with employees of competiting companies? Let’s find out what the Supreme Court said in Case Law.
PATAKARAN – Legal 101 “Social Justice”
In our Legal 101, let’s find out what the Supreme Court has to say about the concept of “social justice”.
66th Israeli National Day
President Peres of Israel marked the country’s 66th year by honoring 120 outstanding soldiers and singing songs as they headed out to the national parks for the traditional Independence Day barbeque in Tuesday. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and others joined then at the president’s residence where the Israeli leaders sang some of their favorite songs by the late Israeli singer Arik Einstein with some help from the nation’s famous singers, and enjoyed performances from the […]
Pangilinan Joins PNOY’s Cabinet
Former Senator Francis Pangilinan officially joined PNOY’s cabinet on Tuesday after he his oath taking as the country’s newest food and agriculture adviser. According to Memorandum Order (MO) No. 70 which was signed by the President on Monday (May 5), these agencies are the National Food Authority (NFA), National Irrigation Administration (NIA), Philippine Coconut Authority (PCA), and Fertilizer and Pesticide Authority (FPA).
Biometric Registration For New Voters
Comelec’s spokesperson James Jiminez gone out to make sure the biometric registration process is convenient for everybody. He said the forms are available from Comelec’s website to download so people who hasn’t yet registered can fill up the forms ahead of time.
Man sentenced to 10 years for leaking Chinese military secrets
(Reuters) — A man has been handed a ten-year prison sentence for leaking secret and confidential information about China’s military, the country’s state security agency in south China’s Guangdong Province said on Sunday. Over a period of three years, the man, surnamed Li, who was living in a coastal city in Guangdong Province, forwarded to an overseas spy Chinese internal military publications along with reports of activities at key Chinese military bases. In May 2011, Li, 41, received a friend request […]
Long-term recovery plan for “Yolanda” survivors launched
GENEVA, May 6 (PNA/Xinhua) — The International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement (IRCR) on Monday launched a long-term recovery plan in the Typhoon Haiyan (Yolanda) stricken region of the Philippines. Six months after Typhoon Haiyan devastated the Visayas region of the Philippines, ICRC noted as many as 16 million people were affected by Typhoon Haiyan, with thousands losing family members, homes and incomes. The long term plan, scheduled to run over the next three […]
Environment as important as genes in autism, study finds
(Reuters) – Environmental factors are more important than previously thought in leading to autism, as big a factor as genes, according to the largest analysis to date to look at how the brain disorder runs in families. Sven Sandin, who worked on the study at King’s College London and Sweden’s Karolinska institute, said it was prompted “by a very basic question which parents often ask: ‘If I have a child with autism, what is the […]