- Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte is willing to help expose sexual abuses of Filipino priests amid the alleged cover-up of the abuse scandal that rocked the Catholic Church. The President, who claimed to be molested by a priest when he was young, said there has been a "worldwide condemnation" on the child sex abuse committed by priests.
- The Philippine Embassy in Malaysia yesterday advised all undocumented Filipinos to expect nationwide crackdown following the end of the voluntary deportation program in that country. Philippine Ambassador Charles Jose said the Malaysian government will no longer extend the amnesty program which originally started in January 2016.
- Senior members of the House committees on good government and on health are set to amend the much-awaited report on its joint inquiry of the Dengvaxia controversy, reportedly to specifically name former and incumbent national government officials who must face serious criminal charges for their role in the 3.5 billion peso irregularity.
- US groups representing survivors of sexual abuse by Catholic priests called on the Vatican to publish a list of clerics abused of sexual assault. The calls came after Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano, a former Vatican envoy to Washington, dropped an 11-page bombshell letter on Saturday accusing Pope Francis of ignoring sexual abuse allegations against prominent US cardinal Theodore McCarrick.
- US President Donald Trump reportedly rejected as “not good enough” a European Union proposal scrapping tariffs on automobiles, a move which threatens to amplify a simmering trans-Atlantic trade dispute. Just hours earlier, the EU Trade Commissioner Cecilia Malmstroem had said the bloc was “willing to bring down… our car tariffs to zero” provided that the United States did the same.
- Venezuelan authorities have arrested 131 people accused of attempting to sabotage reforms implemented by President Nicolas Maduro to alleviate a crippling economic crisis, according to the attorney general.
- Actor Eiji Wentz's career is on hiatus to focus on his learning in England this October.
- TV Tokyo announced a schedule change for Boruto and Pokemon Sun and Moon TV shows as they will now be aired on Sundays beginning October 7.
- An arbitrator is sending Colin Kaepernick's grievance with the NFL to trial, denying the league's request to throw out the quarterback's claims that owners conspired to keep him out of the league because of his protests of social injustice.
- Benjamin Alves sees no need to give a promise ring to actress Julie Anne San Jose.
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