MANILA, May 1 (Xinhua) -- Twelve people were killed, including six children, and at least 30 others injured in a five-vehicle collision on an expressway north of Manila at noon on Thursday, ...

The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology raised the alert level from zero to one on a scale of five, or from normal to low-level unrest, after a phreatic eruption occurred at 4:36 a.m.