Former President Joseph Estrada accidentally ripped his pants during a campagin sortie in Leyte province exposing his “white” underwear. It was funny and its true. Instead of being embarassed, Erap grabbed this as an opportunity to entertain his supporters.

How come Yakult officials still won’t budge? Abs-cbnNEWS.com did a little research, and here’s what they found out. Reasons So why is the Yakult bottle so small? Is too much of it bad for you? Is it because of the price? Or is it just that company officials never really thought about it? According to [...]

Agence France-Presse | WASHINGTON – A city in Kansas seeking to be a test hub for a high-speed broadband network being built by Google has temporarily changed its name to… Google. Topeka Mayor William Bunten issued a proclamation declaring that, for the month of March, the Kansas capital would be known as “Google, Kansas — [...]

NEW DELHI – A Bollywood filmmaker has issued a lucrative challenge to horror movie fans: a $10,000 reward for anyone who can watch his latest supernatural thriller, alone, in a cinema until the closing credits. Ram Gopal Varma’s “Phoonk 2,” a sequel to his 2008 film of the same name, is about an evil spirit [...]

MANILA – TIME Magazine recently released a list of “100 Best Novels of All Time”, to both cheers and jeers from readers. The list, made by book critics Lev Grossman and Richard Lacayo, featured a hundred English language titles – mostly from Western authors – spanning 1923 (the date TIME began publishing) up to present. [...]

MANILA – Chanel, the world’s oldest dog, died on August 28 in New York, according to various reports. It was 21, or 147 years old in dog years. The white wire-haired dachshund reportedly died of natural causes inside the home of its owners, New York residents Karl and Denice Shaughnessy. The couple had adopted the [...]

LEESBURG, Va. – A two-story farmhouse on sale for a dollar in northern Virginia is drawing attention from prospective buyers as far as Alaska and Great Britain. There is a catch, however. The land is not for sale, and the buyer will have to pay to have the house carted away. The 1880s farmhouse is [...]

Filipino boxing champ Manny Pacquiao is the first Asian to win five world boxing titles in different weight divisions. Below is a list of the boxing titles Pacquiao has won: World Titles Pacquiao first held the WBC Flyweight titlein 1998 when he defeated Chartchai Sasakul in Bangkok, Thailand. Pacquiao won by TKO in the 8th [...]

Filipino caregivers are helping the oldest person in the world live longer. At 115, African American Gertrude Baines is officially the world’s oldest person since the January 2, 2009, death of Portuguese woman Maria de Jesus, according to the Guinness Book of World Records. Baines said her secret to success is a lifetime of clean [...]

Agence France-Presse | RIO DE JANEIRO – Money stuffed in a woman’s bra saved her life after she was shot aboard a bus in the northeastern Brazilian state of Bahia, local media reported Monday. The incident took place Saturday in Bahia’s capital, Salvador, where 58-year-old Ivonete Pereira was shot in the chest by one of [...]