Esther Tanquintic-Misa

A young couple from Chicago is facing charges for allegedly starving to death one of their baby daughters.

Air Canada has suspended a planned purchase of Bombardier's CSeries and announced it will keep its 25 Embraer SA planes instead of replacing them with the new narrow-body aircraft.

NASA's Earth Observatory has just released a new photo map pitting the ocean heights in the tropical Pacific in early May compared to May 1997. The 1997-1998 El Niño is recognized as one of the strongest ever.

With improved treatments, life expectancy among Canadians has surged with males expected to reach 80 and females 84, based on a report released by the World Health Organization.

Eight months after a magnitude 7.2 temblor, the Philippines' Central Visayas has been stricken anew with a major earthquake on Thursday early evening that measured magnitude 6.3.

A new NOAA-led study released by US researchers has presented a glimpse of potentially more droughts to countries near the Equator. It found global warming is pushing Pacific tropical cyclones away from the equator going toward the poles, potentially risking Japan and Korea peninsula and other regions with generally larger populations during cyclone season.

Kelp samples collected along the U.S. West Coast continue to test negative to possible ocean-borne radiation from Japan's Fukushima nuclear power plant that was crippled by a tsunami triggered by a 9.0 magnitude earthquake in March 2011.

Google, the world's No. 1 Internet search company, has got its hands busy attending to take down requests following a hallmark EU court ruling on Wednesday that said the firm must heed to users' requests to delete information that are "inadequate, irrelevant or no longer relevant."

A mother who wanted to watch the 15-rated film movie 'Bad Neighbours' in Vue cinema in Cambridge was barred and kicked out by cinema officials. The reason? She brought along her 11-week-old baby with her.

The Public Health Agency of Canada on Wednesday said the doctor who had contact with a MERS-CoV (Middle East Respiratory Syndrome coronavirus) afflicted patient in Florida and then travelled to Canada has tested negative for the virus.

Police have arrested and charged six brothers from North Carolina for allegedly sexually abusing their own sister for 10 years. Their parents were likewise charged with felony child abuse.

Australia may be exerting efforts to ban racism among its residents but these are not enough, at least for Australian of the Year and AFL legend Adam Goodes. For one, the country's very own prevailing constitution remains discriminatory against the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.

An earthquake with a 6.8 magnitude strength struck Panama on Tuesday.

A nurse in the Philippines' province of Cebu has become the center of outrage of netizens after she taped a newborn's mouth shut because the baby cried loudly and was too noisy.

Drinking red wine and eating chocolates, however frequent, may not make a person have improved health, a study released on Monday by U.S. researchers said.

Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei on Sunday announced the country has managed to crack the technology of the US bat-wing craft it captured in 2011 as it unveiled a replica of the captured drone.

The U.S. has reported its second case of the deadly Middle East Respiratory Syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) in a male patient currently confined in an Orlando hospital.

Australia, in the midst of a fading mining boom, stands to suffer more losses of at least $100 million a day if tugboat workers at Port Hedland make good their threat to stage a labour strike within the next 30 days. The impending industrial work stoppage could cripple Australia's most lucrative iron ore exports.

After magnitude 5.8 earthquake has cracked some of its granite and marble stones in August 2011, the Washington Monument will reopen anew to the public.

Saudi Arabia has recently registered three new cases and three new deaths from the potentially fatal Middle East Respiratory Syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) infection.

A remote-controlled research submarine that costs a whopping $8 million has gone missing off the coast of New Zealand.

Australia will be allotting A$82 billion ($77 billion) into a road infrastructure plan in a bid to encourage investment into its fizzling economy spurred by a fading mining boom.

In what could be a historical milestone related to the Fukushima nuclear power plant meltdown in March 2011, plant operator Tokyo Electric Power Co (TEPCO) has been slapped with a lawsuit by no other than a worker who used to work in the crippled facility.

Not only will climate change affect the temperaments of weather patterns, it elevates sea levels and hampers crop production, the rising levels of carbon dioxide are also bound to affect the nutritional value and content of basic foods.

East Antarctica, largely receiving small attention before, has now become the focus of a study where if it succumbs to global warming and melts could push sea levels to rise by 10-13 feet high, enough to drown coastal cities from Tokyo to Mumbai to New York.

Nations around the world have started conducting respective preparations in anticipation of a strong El Niño weather occurrence this 2014.

The radiation from the crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant that has erupted into the atmosphere and fell into the ocean waters will not trigger any increase in cancer or health problems, a report released by the UN Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation said. What will definitely most kill the people are their overreactions and stress over possible radiation afflictions.

Canada has opened its first ever cannabis marijuana vending machine in Vancouver.

Recently voted as Australia's favourite airline, Qantas is set to squash off 2,200 jobs by June as part of a restructure plan as it announced it will deploy the double-decker Airbus A380 to service the Sydney-Dallas/Fort Worth route.