Esther Tanquintic-Misa

Singapore Airlines announced on Tuesday it has made necessary reductions in its Airbus A380 flights to Sydney and Melbourne.

Australia has allotted more than $12 billion from the national coffers for the purchase of 58 F-35 Joint Strike Fighters, as the Abbott government jacks up the country's air combat power and resources to a total of 72 fighter jets by 2020.

Concerns over "production practices" had prompted Health Canada to issue a recall notice against a British Columbia supplier of medical marijuana. The specific pot is Purple Kush, Batch PK-10-20-13, manufactured by Greenleaf Medicinals that is based in Nanaimo.

It was definitely a very desperate attempt to smuggle gold bars. A 63-year old Indian businessman recently went under the knife in a hospital in New Delhi. He initially complained he had accidentally swallowed the cap of a water bottle and wanted it removed. What the surgeons discovered was otherwise and beyond their wildest imaginations.

Two baggage handlers of Air Canada are set to lose their jobs after a video went viral showing them dropping passenger luggage several metres into a bin on the ground.

A month after air pact between New Zealand and the Philippines was signed in March, one of the latter's budget carriers has applied to mount flights to the Kiwi nation.

What was once perceived as casual marijuana smoking may not be so casual at all with the effects of the drug to one's brain.

For countries about to construct nuclear power plants, or even those that had, a floating facility built offshore would serve best against tsunami and earthquake threats.

A son of a well-respected Calgary Police Service officer has been charged with first degree murder for the mass stabbings of five people at a house party in Brentwood, Calgary.

Latest 2013 data released by the New Zealand census office has shown that Kiwis born overseas in have hit more than one million persons.

Australia's definitely eager to clinch a free trade agreement with China, the world's second-largest economy. But will it bow down to the demands of the other Asian and bigger country? China wants the free trade agreement to include provisions, allowing the entry of foreign workers to work on Chinese-funded projects.

American journalist Jeanne Moos from CNN has apologised to the people of New Zealand after her report on the visit of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge poked fun on the traditional greeting the locals gave to the royals upon their arrival.

Australia has launched its first Bitcoin ATM in Sydney despite troubles and a threat from the National Australia Bank (NAB) that it will close the accounts of businesses trading in crypto-currencies, including Bitcoin.

To be branded as a non-violent team is already hard. More so if the team had been named after the sitting spiritual pontiff of the Roman Catholic faith. It's means the players of Papa Francisco football team have to be attuned to the traits that Pope Francis has continuously exuded, which are humility and simplicity.

A technical malfunction at the crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant in Japan has triggered the release of some 240 tonnes of radioactive groundwater into a wrong part of the facility.

China is still definitely on the lookout for commodities. Chinese consortium MMG has just bought from Glencore Xstrata the latter's Las Bambas copper mine in Peru for AU$6.22 billion in cash.

Bus drivers of privately owned SouthLink have agreed to hold a 24-hour work stoppage over unsettled pay and conditions claims either Tuesday or Wednesday after the Holy Week.

Among the agenda lined up for Tuesday's federal government cabinet meeting is the long-standing proposed second airport for Sydney at Badgerys Creek. Already endorsed by Australian PM Tony Abbott, the cabinet is expected to approve it on the same day.

Attempted murder charges slapped against 9-month-old Mohammad Musa have been dismissed by a judge in Pakistan over the weekend after the police said they are no longer pursing the charges.

Canadians will be feted with a spectacular evening night show as the first of four total lunar eclipses starts on early Tuesday morning.

Solomon Islands has been struck by twin powerful quakes on Sunday. A 7.6 tremor woke the residents of Solomon's capital Honiara early Sunday. The second, also powerful 7.5, struck almost at midnight. Reports of casualties and damages have yet to be made.

Insurance companies are already expecting that damage bill claims from Cyclone Ita could reach $1 billion in North Queensland after it ravaged sugarcane and banana plantations over the weekend. More than 6000 homes and businesses still have yet to get reconnected to the power supply as of Monday.

Australian supermarket chain Coles has recalled its Easter eggs after a boy from Central Coast suffered an allergic reaction from eating one of the eggs. The packaging failed to declare it contains traces of "tree nuts."

More than 9,000 people in north Queensland will be "directly impacted" by tropical cyclone Ita as the weather howler hits land on Friday night. The weather disturbance has been upgraded to the highest category 5 level. Winds strength is expected to reach 285km/h or more. Its speed has likewise increased from 16km/h to 18km/h.

Either the month-long missing Malaysia Airlines MH370 was operated and flown by a very skilled pilot or someone else right smack into the ocean but still largely intact and immediately sank to the bottom of the ocean as one mammoth piece that's why there's no floating debris visible anywhere on top of the waters, or Cyclone Gillian could have had a hand in the disappearance of the debris.

Toyota Motor Corp announced on Wednesday of a massive recall involving 6.4 million vehicles worldwide after at least five defects were found, ranging from faulty airbags and seat rails to defective windshield wipers.

Air Canada travelers to North America can now enjoy Wi-Fi access starting May, the airline has announced recently.

The World Health Organization (WHO) on Wednesday urged global governments as well as the world's numerous pharmaceuticals to lower down and make affordable the prices of cure pills for the hepatitis C virus (HCV) as the agency released its first ever global Hepatitis C treatment guidelines.

Tokyo Electric Power has started pumping radioactive groundwater from the crippled Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear power plant as a preventive measure to curb further leaks in the facility.