MANILA, Philippines, April 14 (UPI) -- Two International Committee of the Red Cross workers held hostage for three months have pleaded with Philippine authorities to help secure their release.

MANILA, Philippines, April 5 (UPI) -- Philippine officials say meddling by the Red Cross is hampering efforts to secure the release of two aid workers held hostage by Muslim extremists.

MANILA, Philippines, March 31 (UPI) -- Islamic militants holding three Red Cross workers hostage in the Philippines have extended a deadline they set to behead one of them, sources say.

QUEZON CITY, Philippines, March 19 (UPI) -- Islamic militants are ready to release one of three kidnapped aid workers once the Philippines' military moves its troops, a Red Cross official said Thursday.

MIAMI, Dec. 25 (UPI) -- Long snapper Chris Ivory has become the fifth Miami-Florida player suspended before the Hurricanes Emerald Bowl contest against California.

MANILA, Philippines, Dec. 24 (UPI) -- Corazon Aquino has upset some allies by apologizing to another former president of the Philippines, Joseph Estrada, officials said.

MANILA, Philippines, June 22 (UPI) -- Twenty-eight people, in addition to four found earlier, have been rescued in the wreck of a Philippine ferry that capsized in a typhoon, reports said.