A poor Filipino blacksmith's son who stands less than 2 feet (60 centimeters) tall was declared the world's shortest man by Guinness World Records on his 18th birthday on Sunday, sparking a celebratio

Philippine President Benigno Aquino III has led senior members of his Cabinet on a visit to the USS Carl Vinson, from where Osama bin Laden's body was buried at sea.

Boats lay idle on the shores of a lake surrounding the Philippines' rumbling Taal volcano as village elder Violy Seda retold her dramatic escape from death a generation ago.

The 65-year-old woman was

Hundreds of boys in a Philippine city turned out on Saturday for a daylong ‘circumcision party’ to provide a safe, free procedure for a rite of passage that most local males undergo as preteens.

Some

Hundreds of residents fled a remote Philippine village after 11 men including relatives of a powerful politician died in a clash with Muslim rebels, officials said on Monday.

A 500-strong armoured ar

A Philippine Islamic militant accused of taking part in the 2000 kidnappings of European tourists on a Malaysian island resort has been arrested, the military said on Wednesday.

Sixteen inmates broke out of an overcrowded Philippine jail by sawing off their cell's iron bars and climbing down a wall using blankets, authorities said Thursday.

Gunmen believed to be robbers shot to death five bed salesmen on a troubled southern Philippine island that is a haven for Islamic militants, authorities said Tuesday.

The Leaders of a Muslim clan accused of carrying out the Philippines' worst political massacre remain a major security threat in their home province even from behind bars, locals say.