Toyota expects overseas sales to grow 2 percent this year to more than 8 million vehicles from 7.9 million vehicles last year. Tokyo—Toyota Motor Corp. stayed at the top in global vehicle sales in 2014, taking that auto industry crown for the third year straight, but was less upbeat about this year.
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Activists blame police for the death of Shaimaa el-Sabagh, a 32-year-old mother of one from the Mediterranean port city of Alexandria. The government says it is investigating.
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Tokyo—From prime minister to ordinary people, Japanese responded with shock Sunday at a video purportedly showing one of two Japanese hostages of the extremist Islamic State group had been killed.
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New Delhi—President Barack Obama was greeted in India Sunday with an elaborate welcome at the country’s sprawling presidential palace, then he solemnly laid a wreath at a memorial honoring the father of India’s independence movement, Mahatma Gandhi.
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One place worth going to—one that’s not far from Donsol—is the Panumbagan Sand Bar, a five-kilometer-long, tamarind-shaped islet in Pilar town that’s known for its fine, pearl-white sand.
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Writer Isobel Diamond describes the city as a “medieval Spanish walled town at its heart; it is chaotic and seedy in parts—with strip joints and dwarf-wrestling clubs—but steeped in old-world glamour.”
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The Miss Universe Organization (MUO) presented last Friday the new crown that the next Miss Universe and her nine immediate successors will wear, a partial result of what will be a decade-long partnership between the Donald Trump-owned organization and Czech Republic-based jewelry company Diamonds International Corp. (DIC) that they entered into in July 2014.
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By Alvin I. Dacanay Today, January 26, many Filipinos here and overseas will watch the 63rd Miss Universe Pageant to see if our delegate, 27-year-old entrepreneur Mary Jean “MJ” Lastimosa of North Cotabato province, succeeds in what her immediate predecessors failed to do: win the prestigious title that the Philippines last won in 1973.
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By Alvin I. Dacanay Is Batman going to triumph over a 40-year-old “virgin” and Sherlock Holmes? Do everybody’s “friend” Rachel and June Carter Cash have a chance against Sarah Palin? Would a Birdman soar or a Boy further grow in stature? Is everyone going to check in at The Grand Budapest Hotel? Film fans will learn the answers to these …
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“Keep the flame of faith alive in your hearts. Walk away as children of the light,” Francis intoned in his homily. He ended the Mass with the devotees holding lighted candles in the damp air. The Pontiff, a lighted candle flickering behind a glass case in his right arm, gave his final blessing in English in a symbolic gesture after …
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