Esther Tanquintic-Misa

The number of measles virus infections in Canada has risen and had infected not only children but also a number of adults, prompting health officials to call for a national vaccine registry.

Japan has reopened the Miyakoji area of Tamura and has called on its former 357 residents to come back to the place which three years ago underwent evacuation because of the Fukushima nuclear power plant meltdown.

It is not really breaking tradition, but more of like keeping up with the times. Vatican will be holding a special ceremony for the first ever double canonisation of two former popes on April 27, and it has enlisted the help of social media platforms to drumbeat the event.

Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott on Monday vowed and assured relatives of the 239 passengers aboard the missing Malaysia Airlines MH370 that the search and retrieval operations for the mystery plane has no time cap.

Tokyo Electric Power Co's dumping of groundwater from the Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear power plant, already approved by local fishermen on Tuesday, will begin in May, Japan's industry minister said on Sunday.

As the world's temperatures continue to warm up, so does the tempers globally. Hot tempers may exacerbate global security issues as people fight over resources, particularly water and energy, which could lead to civil wars and strife between nations and refugees, a report by a recent United Nations climate panel due for release said.

Continuing to display humility and leadership by example, Pope Francis went to confession before a regular and ordinary priest, much to the shock of the congregation present in St. Peter's Basilica over the weekend.

The crippled Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear power plant in Japan has claimed its first death. But it wasn't due to radiation-related reasons. A worker involved in the plant's excavation work died after getting buried in a mudslide on Friday.

A court in Victoria, Australia has acquitted a Melbourne babysitter for the death of a 10-month-old girl left in her care.

While Japan entered into a momentous agreement with the U.S. on Tuesday to turn over hundreds of kilograms of highly enriched uranium (HEU) and separated plutonium to the U.S., it was later learned the Asian nation isn't giving up all its plutonium stockpile.

A worker who used to work for the crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant will be releasing a manga comic book that depicts the lives of workers inside the radiation-laden facility.

Some 147 kilograms of heroin bound for Australia from Ranong has been intercepted by Thailand police on Thursday.

The World Trade Organization has ruled on a case lodged against China, saying the latter's restrictions of its rare earths exports violated global trade rules.

No reverse in the Earth's global warming conditions is expected as this scenario will continue for centuries, according to the UN World Meteorological Organisation.

Australian Cardinal George Pell, who is set to become Vatican's keeper of finances, on Wednesday admitted limiting compensation to victims of sex abuse because of fears the Archdiocese of Sydney will go bankrupt.

Effective end of April, Air Canada Rouge, Air Canada's low-cost subsidiary, will expand its service in Western Canada to serve a number of predominantly leisure markets.

The World Health Organization has ruled out that the Ebola-like symptoms of a Canadian traveler who recently went to Liberia in West Africa.

It's a systematic cover-up, Irish activist and sex abuse survivor Marie Collins said of the rampant sex abuse cases proliferating within the confines of the walls of the Catholic church. But she highly believed child sex abuse cases would not have multiplied and priests would not have summoned the courage to continue doing it had their bishops immediately sanctioned them against it.

The books of Australia's wealthiest church organisation, the Catholic Archdiocese of Sydney, have been made public for the first time. And according to what the child sex abuse royal commission heard on Tuesday, the Archdiocese has $1.24 billion worth of assets, plus annual multimillion-dollar surpluses.

The campaign to establish if the male fruit fly that scared New Zealand in January was part of a breeding population has cost taxpayers a whopping $1 million.

Australia has committed to open its doors and facilitate all possible travel assistance to the family members of the 239 passengers of the ill-fated Malaysia Airlines MH370 once wreckage of the missing plane has been found.

The producers of an Australian film of which the plot highly resembles the tragedy that struck the still missing Malaysia Airlines MH370 has decided to pull back the production of the movie out of respect to the victims, families and authorities affected by the incident.

The flight of some 2,000 passengers has been delayed at the Brisbane International Airport on Monday morning as authorities were forced to clear the area. A pair of scissors detected in a passenger's carry-on luggage sparked a major re-screening process.

Australian rare earths miner Greenland Minerals and Energy Limited announced on Monday it has entered into a memorandum of understanding with China Non‐Ferrous Metal Industry to push the development of the Kvanefjeld Project in Greenland.

The flash flood that hit Sydney on Monday afternoon has killed a man while two others were rushed to the hospital after being struck by lightning.

A group of 20 researchers continued to hunt on Sunday for the meteorite believed to have fallen in the fields of St. Thomas in Ontario, Canada.

Some 58 world leaders are meeting on Monday and Tuesday to discuss global security at a time a crisis in Ukraine has developed.

Two men died over the weekend when the small plane they are flying crashed in Hawke's Bay in Hastings, New Zealand.

About 30 leaders deemed responsible for the crisis in Ukraine and Crimea will be receiving sanctions against travelling in New Zealand, Foreign Affairs Minister Murray McCully announced over the weekend.