A man died after being struck by a train of the Philippine National Railways in Sta. Rosa City on Monday night.

Three New People’s Army rebels were killed in an encounter with soldiers in Sitio Natuling, Barangay Budlasan in Canlaon, Negros Oriental yesterday.

Anti-narcotics agents uprooted and burned 97,500 marijuana plants valued at P21.7 million in Tinglayan, Kalinga yesterday.

The death toll due to the diarrhea outbreak in Toril district in this city has climbed to five.

The Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency implemented on Monday a freeze order on a property owned by former Ozamiz City vice mayor Nova Princess Parojinog in Cagayan de Oro City.

Five farmers were found dead with gunshot wounds in Doña Remedios Trinidad in Bulacan on Monday.

The Vatican has declared the Archdiocesan Shrine of St. Anne in Taguig City as a “minor basilica,” making it the first minor basilica under the ecclesiastical jurisdiction of the Diocese of Pasig.

The Adamson University yesterday defended its graduate school program after authorities in China questioned the “instant” doctorate degrees earned by faculty members of a college in Hunan province.

Two health centers in Taguig City became the first facilities in Metro Manila to get a license from the Department of Health to operate as primary care facilities.

Only one and five volcanic earthquakes were recorded on Mt. Bulusan in Sorsogon and Kanlaon on Negros Island, respectively, in the past 24 hours.