Your daily round-up of today's news...
- Philippine Vice President Sara Duterte says her legal team is "confident" that she will win the impeachment case against her.
- Online sexual abuse of children has risen to 2.7 million, according to the Commission on Human Rights.
- The Department of Migrant Workers (DMW) will provide a ₱30,000 one-time financial aid as compensation for missing balikbayan boxes. This follows a Technical Working Group (TWG) meeting where concrete solutions were discussed to ensure that balikbayan boxes reach their beneficiaries intact and safely.
- Special envoy on transnational crime, Markus Lacanilao, voluntarily goes to the Senate to stay there for two days after being cited in contempt. Lacanilao, who accompanied former President Rodrigo Duterte to The Hague, was cited in contempt for refusing to answer questions from the Senate panel investigating the arrest and transfer of the former president to the custody of the ICC.
- Reports indicate that 12 cardinals are frontrunners to replace the recently deceased Pope Francis. Among them are Cardinal Luis Tagle from the Philippines, Cardinal Robert Sarah, Cardinal Peter Erdő from Hungary, Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, Myanmar's Cardinal Charles Bo, Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Pietro Parolin, and Sri Lanka's Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith, along with several others.
- Nissan teases the new Elgrand set for its 2026 release.
- Morgan says the car company "will double down on coachbuilding" and will put internal combustion engines into its cars "for as long as possible".
- The Kia EV3 wins the 2025 World Car of the Year.
- Universal is reportedly making a movie adaptation of SEGA's OutRun racing game with Michael Bay directing and Sydney Sweeney producing it.
- The NCAA Division I Board of Directors proposed the removal of 153 long-standing rules from its handbook. This change would enable schools to share financial benefits directly with players, marking a significant step towards a new era of amateurism in college athletics. However, this initiative is still dependent on the approval of the House settlement.
- President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. has ordered the Philippine flags to be flown at half mast in all government buildings today, in mourning for the passing of National Artist for Film and Broadcast Media Nora Cabaltera Villamayor, better known as Nora Aunor.
- OPM legend Hajji Alejandro passed away at the age of 70.
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