Manila Baby

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  Symbolic "Eight Billionth Baby" Born In Manila

  The United Nations said the global milestone signals major improvements in public health that have lowered the risk of death and increased life expectancy.

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  6-Day-Old Baby Found In American Woman's Carry-On In Manila Airport

  Air passengers attempt to hide some unusual items in their luggage, from snakes stashed in hard drives to "Dark Knight"-themed batarangs. But security officials at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport in Manila discovered a real surprise in an American woman's carry-on Wednesday morning: a 6-day-old infant, whom authorities say she was trying to ...

• Philippines Welcomes 100 Millionth Baby

  A baby girl born early Sunday has officially pushed the population of the Philippines to 100 million, highlighting the challenge of providing for more people in the already-impoverished nation.

• Philippines welcomes symbolic '7 billionth baby'

  The Philippines welcomed one of the world's symbolic "seven billionth" babies Monday, after she arrived to a celebratory cheer at a packed government-run hospital. Weighing 2.5 kilos (5.5 pounds), Danica May Camacho was delivered just before midnight Sunday amid an explosion of camera flashes in the delivery room at Manila's Jose Fabella Memorial H...

• Philippine woman admits to abandoning baby in trash

  A Philippine woman has acknowledged giving birth to a baby on a flight and then abandoning him in the trash on board the plane, a lawmaker said Thursday.The baby was found by a security guard at Manila's airport last Sunday in a trash bag unloaded from a Gulf Air flight from Bahrain. The trash apparently came from the plane's bathroom.Rep Lani Merc...

• Did this woman abandon her baby in a trash can?

  Investigators on Thursday questioned the suspected Philippine mother of a baby found alive in the trash of a Bahrain-to-Manila flight, after tracing the passenger assigned to a bloodstained seat on the plane.Social Welfare Secretary Dinky Soliman said authorities planned DNA tests on the baby, who apparently was born during the weekend flight, and ...

• Newborn baby found alive in Manila airport garbage

  Authorities in the Philippines on Monday tried to trace the mother who gave birth then abandoned her newborn baby on a flight from the Middle East.The baby boy, covered in blood and wrapped in tissue paper, was found by an airport security officer in a garbage bag unloaded from the plane that arrived from Bahrain on Sunday. He was brought to an air...