Esther Tanquintic-Misa

At least nine people were killed and over one million others were forced to evacuate their homes after powerful Typhoon Halong blasted Japan over the weekend. The system is now on its way to Russia's Far East, expected to make landfall by Monday evening.

A marriage without sex can possibly happen, as in the case of Ian and Paula McFadyen. Unconditional love will help carry it through.

Despite the first hurricane expected to hit Hawaii in 22 years weakening slightly, residents as well as tourists on the Big Island are leaving no stone unturned as they prepare for double whammy hurricanes Iselle and Julio.

The U.S. Climate Prediction Center has said the much anticipated El Niño weather phenomenon has fizzled out in the equatorial Pacific. The chances of it happening in the Northern Hemisphere during autumn and early winter had dropped to 65 per cent, from a previous 80 per cent.

Defiant Russia, which has banned all U.S. food on its land, as well as fruits and vegetables from the EU in response to sanctions, is feared to invade Ukraine anytime soon. NATO said around 20,000 combat-ready Russian troops are now present on Ukraine's eastern border.

Spurred by the Ebola outbreak in Africa, the political tensions gripping the Middle East plus the looming trade war with Russia, the International Air Transport Association (IATA) on Wednesday said it expects global air travel demand to get impacted this year.

A Milwaukee-based private security company on Tuesday has announced the discovery of an Internet hacking ring syndicate that has amassed a whopping 1.2 billion global usernames and passwords as well as 500 million email addresses.

U.S. President Barack Obama has quashed calls of health experts to send to Africa the experimental ZMapp serum that was given to two Ebola-inflicted American health workers. The president thumbed down the proposal saying the drug still needs further testing if it indeed is working as it should.

A child abuser who had been convicted and served a 20-year jail time has been slapped with fresh offences after Google scanned his Gmail account and found it contained indecent images of children.

It was one of Australia's finest display of people power ever. Commuters aboard a Perth-bound train, majority surely strangers than friends, all went out of their way, literally, by going out of the train just to collectively tilt it so as to release a man's trapped leg.

Authorities from North Korea's Catholic association had rejected an invitation to attend a mass led by Pope Francis next week, as families of Sewol ferry victims in the South refused to de-tent Gwanghwamun Square, the venue of the pope's mass. Pope Francis is expected in South Korea from August 14th to the 18th.

The world is now going fearful over the spread of the deadly Ebola virus among four west African nations, plus two Americans and now one Spanish priest. But while this year's outbreak is its worst, experts highlighted passing on the virus from one person to another is highly preventable through the time and tested soap and water solution.

The Australian coal industry stands to potentially lose some of its ardor as China, one of its major markets, has announced closing its coal-fired powerplants as well as banning the use of coal.

When it rains, it definitely does pour, at least for Hawaii which is advising its residents to brace for two storms next week. On the other end of the world, Japan is likewise being eyed by a monster typhoon.

More than the disease itself, global health experts are on their toes monitoring the spread of the Ebola virus because it has already managed to infiltrate urban areas. This year's outbreak has been dubbed the worst outbreak yet since it was first identified in the 1970s. But hope remains in the experimental serum administered to two infected American patients.

A Canadian couple who owns and runs a café in China have been detained in that country for alleged espionage.

Four people were rushed to a hospital in Toronto after they were struck by lightning while taking refuge from the rain under a tree.

Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO), operator of stricken Fukushima nuclear power plant, will be unable to comply with a deadline of clearing out radioactive water around the facility.

Dobrolyot Airline, the low-cost subsidiary of Russian flag carrier Aeroflot, has become the first casualty of the sanctions the European Union slapped against President Vladimir Putin and his country.

Global airlines are now given the leeway to deny passengers it believes are exhibiting symptoms of the deadly Ebola virus.

I want to earn a living but this is definitely not what I came here for. These were probably the thoughts of two window cleaners who dangled while working on the 48th floor of a building in Vienna, Austria.

Liberia has started burning the bodies of the victims of the deadly Ebola virus to avert more potential health scare from the rotting corpses. The death toll now has reached 887 in the three western African nations of Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone. Nigeria has reported its second Ebola case.

The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration has issued new restrictions to American airlines, instructing them to fly over Iraqi airspace at altitudes higher than 30,000 feet, even as other global airlines such as British Airways maintained flying over the wartorn Middle East country remains safe.

At least 75 people have died after a car parts plant in China exploded over the weekend. The plant located in eastern Jiangsu Province manufactured for a number of global car companies, including US giant General Motors (GM).

Dubai's Emirates Airline has become the first major international airline outside Africa to suspend flights to Guinea, one of three west African nations now reeling over the Ebola virus outbreak.

U.S. health officials on Sunday said the condition of Ebola-stricken American doctor Kent Brantly is improving. Brantly flew in from Africa on Saturday and went straight to Atlanta to a hospital with a special isolation ward. A second American missionary stricken with the deadly virus will arrive on Tuesday.

Over 381 people have died after a fatally strong magnitude 6.1 earthquake struck in south-west China at 08:30:13.50 UTC on Sunday.

Apparently, the Ebola virus now enveloping three West African nations wouldn't have developed into an outbreak if not for the people's ignorance and belief in witchcraft.

West African nation Sierra Leone, which has been reeling from an Ebola virus outbreak since May, has declared a state of emergency. Police and military units have been instructed to quarantine the epicentres of the disease as the death toll reached 729 on Thursday.