Who is the most generous person in the world today? Ask folks in the West, and the most popular answer would probably be Bill Gates, the founder of Microsoft. For good reason, too. According to… Read more »
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In November 2017, a gunman entered a church in Sutherland Springs in Texas, where he killed 26 people and wounded 20 others. He escaped in his car, with police and residents in hot pursuit, before… Read more »
Thinking about what costume to wear this Halloween? Why not dress up like your favorite saint? While others welcome Halloween by dressing up to be scary, children at the Epiphany of Our Lord Parish in… Read more »
The observance of Undas is something very close to every Filipino’s heart. More than just being a religious tradition that has lived on for centuries, it is also a clear testament to the Filipinos’ strong… Read more »
In 1859, around 450 passengers on the Royal Charter, returning from the Australian goldmines to Liverpool, drowned when the steam clipper was shipwrecked off the north coast of Wales. What makes this tragic loss of… Read more »
First published in The Conversation on May 25, 2017. Republished under Creative Commons license. Wonder Woman embodies the male fantasy of warrior women. Variety.com Christian-Georges Schwentzel, Université de Lorraine When the film Wonder Woman is… Read more »
During the 1936 Berlin Olympics – the first time basketball was played as an Olympic sport – the Philippine men’s basketball team was a surprisingly strong contender. Largely seen as underdogs because of their short… Read more »
A group of the world’s poorest fishermen are protecting endangered whale sharks from being finned alive at Oslob in the Philippines. The fishermen have stopped fishing and turned to tourism, feeding whale sharks tiny amounts… Read more »
shutterstock Jan Hoole, Keele University and Daniel Allen, Keele University If you live with a dog you just know when it’s happy or miserable, don’t you? Of course you do. Even the scientific community, now… Read more »