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Editor’s Note: The Top 10 Most Shared, Most Commented, and Most Tweeted stories of 2011 are based on the number of times you our readers, as their categories imply, shared, commented on, and tweeted the articles posted on INQUIRER.net for the year. Some of your picks may also have been ours and then again, you may not agree. But it doesn’t matter. These pages are yours.

The biggest ship ever to be acquired by the Philippine Navy, the renamed BRP Gregorio del Pilar, will begin its three-week journey to the Philippines from California on Monday. The 378-foot Hamilton-class cutter is a decommissioned United States Coast Guard patrol vessel that the Philippines was able to acquire under the United States Excess Defense […]

Senator Miriam Defensor-Santiago is the newest judge of the International Criminal Court (ICC), the first Filipino and first Asian from a developing country to sit in the tribunal that tries cases of genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity, the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) announced Tuesday.

Should the 8 Arroyo Justices be allowed to continue to abuse the nation? Concerned about former President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo (GMA) and her husband, former First Gentleman Jose Miguel “Mike” Arroyo (FG),  eluding prosecution for serious crimes — Secretary of Justice Leila de Lima correctly issued a watch list order (WLO) or hold order — to […]

The CNN website described her as “an American woman who has helped thousands of poor Indonesian women have a healthy pregnancy and birth.”

The Philippines' Puerto Princesa Underground River, the Amazon rainforest, Vietnam's Halong Bay and Argentina's Iguazu Falls were named among the world's new seven wonders of nature, according to organizers of a global poll.

The saloon is long empty. The roadside jail cells, rusted and worn. Even the swing sets peek from behind knee-high brush after decades of neglect.

Raymond Marc tries to fight off tears as he watches a short video. He failed. “Coke has made me cry,” he posts on his Facebook, after watching the 4:27-minute “tearjerker” video of Coca-Cola that is now going viral on the internet.

Imus Bishop Luis Antonio Tagle, a former member of a theological body once headed by Pope Benedict XVI before he became Pontiff, has been appointed the new archbishop of Manila.

Ninoy Aquino International Airport (Naia), particularly Terminal 1, now ranks No. 1 among the “Worst Airports in the World,” said “The Guide to Sleeping in Airports,” an interactive website that gathers reports from various reviewers.

SAN FRANCISCO—My wife and I decided early on that Tagalog was going to be our sons’ first language. It wasn’t easy. In his first days in pre-school, our first-born was miserable, intimidated by a world in which pretty much everyone spoke English. But his pediatrician said not to worry about it. Experts said not to […]