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Pope Francis has inadvertently uttered an Italian F-bomb on his weekly blessing address from the Vatican.

As Europe braces for potentially more devastating floods in the coming years, costs of damages will be shooting upward.

While Apple CEO Tim Cook may just be silently taking blows against the company and its profits, he apparently won't take it just seating down when critics pick on Apple's contributions to help save the environment and ease climate change and global warming.

Health authorities in New Zealand are warning Kiwis of a possible dengue outbreak following the spate of the disease in Fiji which has already killed three people in the island nation in the South Pacific Ocean. Fiji hospitals have been reported to be swamped with more than 2,000 cases.

Lucky drivers in Calgary, Alberta in Canada. An app informed them about a looming gas price adjustment, essentially empowering them at the right time on Thursday to manage the situation, their gas supplies as well as their expenses.

Violent crimes in Canada in just the year 2009 alone had cost taxpayers a whopping $12.7 billion, a new Justice Canada report said on Sunday.

Weather forecasters have warned Canadian citizens to brace for colder temperatures in March even as spring is fast approaching.

New Zealand's flag carrier is expecting higher earnings for the year ending June as its first quarter 2014 profits lifted 40 per cent to NZ$140 million from a year ago.

Lazy eating could be beneficial to one's health, provided all food options offered nearby continued to remain healthy choices, according to a study released by researchers from St. Bonaventure University in New York.

With the world now experiencing a slowing global warming, sceptics have started questioning the importance and necessity of the investments made into renewable energy by all member nations of planet Earth. But science bodies in the U.S. and UK assured the investments remain well in track as the warming hiatus is just temporary.

NASA and its Kepler space telescope has discovered a whopping number of 715 new planets outside our own solar system.

The government of Ontario in Canada is seeking to legalise a bill that would ban the importation as well as spread of the invasive Asian Carp species, a kind of fish that reproduces rapidly and have been found to have infested U.S. waterways throughout the South and Midwest.

State-owned New Zealand Post has announced it will be axing more jobs in the coming months as it struggles to keep operations alive and well.

Coffee drinkers seeking to reduce their consumption of the beverage may want to seriously ponder on that plan. Prices of coffee in the world market are expected to increase, spurred by droughts resulting from climate change.

A year after he abdicated his post as supreme pontiff of the Roman Catholic church, Benedict XVI still has yet to fully enjoy a controversy-free life. On Wednesday, he again defended his resignation a year ago was a willing act on his part and that nobody forced him to step down.

Japan has changed minds regarding its energy mix. While the former president has vowed to extinguish all nuclear power plants immediately after the March 2011 tsunami that crippled the Fukushima, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has announced he will reopen some of them, if not all.

Officials from the U.S. Department of Energy continued to maintain the nuclear leak that came out from a nuclear waste plant in New Mexico poses no hazards to the health of nearby residents, even as levels of airborne radioactivity had been found to be "slightly elevated."

Canada, the U.S. and Denmark, three of the five-member Arctic nations, want to impose a fishing moratorium in the region as the ice starts to melt, and fast.

Water samples collected off the coast of Canada had revealed traces of radionuclides linked with the radiation leak at the crippled Japanese nuclear plant Fukushima.

A new research by the U.S. government-backed health panel has categorically declared that taking multivitamins or other nutritional supplements such as Vitamin E and beta-carotene do not help fight against heart disease and cancer.

With the smog enveloping Beijing already on its sixth consecutive day, the World Health Organisation said the current levels of air pollution in China has reached a crisis.

Uganda risks losing cordial relations with the international community if President Yoweri Museveni does not repeal the anti-gay bill he signed into law on Monday.

Astronomers from Spain on Tuesday released a video showing the impact of a giant meteorite crashing into moon's surface on September 2013.

For the first time in 25 years, Pope Francis has led the overhauling of the Vatican's financial system. On Monday, he announced the creation of an economics secretariat to control all economic, administrative, personnel and procurement functions of the Holy See. Australian Cardinal George Pell will man the post and report directly to the pope.

Australians planning to travel anytime soon to the Philippines were reminded to take necessary precautions before proceeding to the Southeast Asian country. Western Australia has reported a growing number of measles cases from those who just recently came from the Philippines.

The minimum wage for New Zealand adult workers has been set at $14.25 per hour. It connotes an increase of 3.6 per cent of 50 cents over the previous $13.75. The new salary scheme will take effect on April 1.

It was short of a national mayhem as Canadians roared in jubilation after Team Canada finally upset Sweden to clinch the gold as leader of the 2014 Olympics Men's Hockey arena.

Vatican has recently elevated 19 prelates to the rank of "Cardinal" in what turned out to be a historical milestone for the Roman Catholic Church.

A new study has shown that particles released into the air during volcanic eruptions reflected sunlight, altering temperatures to drop. The recent spate of volcanic eruptions, particularly those in Indonesia, may have caused massive damages but on a global scale, such nature's wrath has done more good than harm to the world's rising mean temperatures.