NEW YORK – Lighting up could be slowing you down in the bedroom. A US study suggests that men who successfully stopped smoking improved on lab measurements of sexual health more than those who relapsed after a quit-smoking program, showing that smoking may be affecting the sexual health of men who consider themselves perfectly all [...]

MANILA, Philippines – From P56.539 billion, the market value of the sequestered shares in San Miguel Corp.  held by the government surged to close to P85 billion, a huge amount if only the government could take hold of all this.
But the Aquino administration, like the previous Arroyo administration, cannot do so because of the pending [...]

MANILA, Philippines – Will it be a “Battle of the Birds” or a “Return Engagement” in the UAAP Season 74 men’s basketball finale?
With defending champion Ateneo Blue Eagles perched in the title round, the Adamson Soaring Falcons and 2010 runner-up Far Eastern Tamaraws mix it up today for the right to challenge the four-peat-seeking powerhouse [...]

MANILA, Philippines – The Court of Appeals has ordered the Cojuangco-led Luisita Realty Corp. to pay water bills amounting to nearly a million pesos to the Tarlac City Water District for the use of deep wells located inside the Luisita Industrial Park.
In a 10-page decision promulgated March 16, the appellate court’s Fourth Division affirmed a [...]

MANILA, Philippines – The Flight Attendants’ and Stewards’ Association of the Philippines (FASAP) will finally hold its strike by the end of the month or early November, unless the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) steps in in the interest of the entire country.
Not one provision has been agreed upon by the union and the [...]

LONDON – Amateur boxing’s world governing body has dismissed as ‘preposterous and utterly untrue’ allegations that Azerbaijan was promised two gold medals at next year’s London Olympics in exchange for a loan of millions of dollars.
The president of the International Amateur Boxing Association (AIBA), however, told the BBC the governing body would "immediately" probe the [...]

MELBOURNE – Kim Clijsters got a lift from an Australia Day flypast to come through a sticky patch against Agnieszka Radwanska and set up an Melbourne Park semi-final against Vera Zvonareva Wednesday.
Clijsters, the only grand slam champion among the women’s semi-finalists at the Australian Open, put in another error-strewn performance but raised her game when [...]

FLORENCE, Italy – Researchers have begun their hunt for the remains of the woman who might have been the model for Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa, hoping to unravel a mystery that has baffled art historians for over five centuries.
A team of experts armed with a special radar device descended this week on a dilapidated [...]

MANILA, Philippines – Supporters of love team Kim Chiu and Gerald Anderson gathered at SM Megamall Cinema 10 on Tuesday night for the red carpet premiere of the much anticipated movie of the year, “Till My Heartaches End.”
The "Kimeralds" were able to make their astounding presence felt filling 3 floors of the mall.
“Kami sobrang thankful. [...]

NEW YORK  – Rapper T.I. on Thursday denied suggestions that he had helped talk a man out of suicide as a publicity stunt ahead of a key court appearance this week.
T.I., who was released in March from a nine-month prison term for weapons possession Omega replica watches, made headlines when he helped Atlanta police coax [...]