INQUIRER.net is posting the English translation of the full text of President Benigno Aquino III’s inaugural speech at the Quirino Grandstand in Manila on June 30, 2010.

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At least 158 people are feared dead after a passenger jet overshot a runway, crashed into a valley and burst into flames in southern India on Saturday morning, officials said.
Rescue teams had recovered 127 bodies …

A 6-year-old boy shows his hands: one with seven fingers and another with eight, in Shengjing Hospital in Shenyang, capital of northeast China’s Liaoning province, on March 22, 2010. Ready to undergo an operation, the …

Pacquiao retained his WBO welterweight championship in a fight that was, at times, rather dull. Clottey focused so much on covering up and defending himself that he never mounted any type of offensive attack. It …

A Mexican billionaire has been declared the richest person in the world, the first time the title has been held by a non-American for 16 years.
Mexico’s Carlos Slim, the son of an immigrant shopkeeper who …

A woman from Georgia is staking a claim to be the oldest person in the world.  Officials say Antisa Khvichava, who lives in a remote mountain village, will be 130 on July 8. The Georgian …

An American-born al-Qaeda spokesman, Adam Gadahn, who was supposedly captured in Pakistan over the weekend, has escaped an intelligence dragnet after all.
Pakistani intelligence agents who said they had arrested Gadahn have now announced the captured …

March 8, 2010 – ANKARA, Turkey – The death toll from a 6.0-magnitude earthquake that shook eastern Turkey on Monday reached 57, the Turkish newspaper Hurriyet Daily News reported.
Fifty-seven people had been killed by the …

Two Japanese airlines topped the rankings of major carriers on-time records.
Full List: World’s 10 Most On-Time Airlines
1. Japan Airlines (Japan)
2. ANA (Japan)
3. SAS (Sweden)
4. Korean Air Lines (Korea)
5. Horizon Air (USA)
6. Air Nostrum (Spain)
7. Chautauqua …