Esther Tanquintic-Misa

Looking for a place to spend Valentines 2014 with your significant other? You might wanna try Victoria and Winnipeg in Canada, which have been voted the 1st and 2nd most romantic cities, respectively, by Amazon.ca in that country.

A team of nuclear experts from the United Kingdom is currently being lined up to help in the decommissioning of the crippled Fukushima power plant in Japan. They are engineers from Sellafield, where one of Britain's worst nuclear accident, occurred.

At least three people have died as heavy rains continued to hit central and southern Italy three days now. The heavy rains and floods have not only caused deaths but also power cuts, road obstructions and other damages.

Plaintiffs who sued and won over Apple Inc in 2013 over an e-books price fixing scheme wants the global telecom giant to pay a total of $840 million in damages.

India's gold imports for financial year 2014 will be less than 500 tonnes, according to All India Gems & Jewellery Trade Federation (GJF), unless the national government relaxes the rules on import restrictions of the safe haven yellow metal.

A day after Indonesian authorities allowed thousands of locals to return to their homes under the slopes of Mount Sinabung volcano on claims its rumblings had lessened, the inevitable happened. Officials of rescue teams tasked to find survivors from Saturday's eruption now race amidst the rubble, but don't have much high hopes.

Samsung has escaped unscathed in a recent series of legal disputes filed against it by Apple and Nokia.

Lawmakers from UK are close to legalizing amendments to the Children and Families Bill which seeks to ban smoking in cars that have children passengers inside. But UK Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg is not pleased with the proposed bill.

New Zealand Prime Minister John Key wants to redesign the national flag to give it a distinct design when compared to Australia. A referendum for the change could happen this 2014.

Toyota is poised to recall six model units in North America over concerns the fabrics in those models' heated seats doesn't comply with safe flammability standards.

Canadian retailers Best Buy and Sears have announced it will collectively slash more than 1,500 jobs this year, in what could be an omen of things to come for the Canadian retail market at the onset of the Chinese New Year 2014 Year of the Horse.

Pope Francis has been immortalized in a cartoonized graffiti found near the Vatican. No less than the latter approved its painting.

Tara Anne MacKay from Dunedin has been slapped with 300 hours of community service plus 12 months of supervision after a state of drunkenness pushed her to go on a rampage onboard an Air New Zealand flight on August 2013.

The entire state of Georgia, including Atlanta and four other Southeastern states in the U.S. now grope for normalcy after a debilitating snow storm cocooned the region on Tuesday.

Weather forecasters from Australia and the U.S. have warned an El Niño weather pattern may likely hit the country and parts of Asia this year. If this occurs, chances are farm growers will experience deficient rains this year.

A 17-year old girl from Ottawa, Canada, faces a 14-year imprisonment term after the court found her guilty of running an underage prostitution ring.

Rodney Chambers, a 58-year-old from Western Australia, has been found dead inside his hotel room in the Philippines. A Filipino woman has been charged with murder over his death.

New Zealand has opened its first manufacturing plant, that will use recycled polyethylene terephthalate (PET) waste to create food grade PET packaging, on Wednesday .

Days before the Chinese Lunar New Year and Chinese residents won't be serving chicken on their festivity tables. China has effected a ban of live poultry sales following a jump in the number of H7N9 infections. The ban covers large parts of eastern and southern China. Immediately on Tuesday, Hong Kong slaughtered 20,000 chickens found with the deadly bird flu virus.

Canada Post's first batch of community mailboxes will already be coming in by February.

Canada has threatened the U.S. with a retaliatory court action if the latter pushes through with a pending agricultural bill that requires meat sold in U.S. markets to detail its country of origin.

"Goodnight, Earth. Goodnight, humanity." Barely six weeks above the soil of the moon, China's moon rover Jade Rabbit encountered a mechanical problem that could signal the end of the country's ambitious space exploration program.

The year 2013 has proven to be the second most costly for Kiwi insurers, based on data released by the Insurance Council of New Zealand on Tuesday.

Greece has declared a state of emergency over the Greek island of Cephalonia (Kefalonia), following Sunday's 5.8-magnitude quake which injured seven people.

Russia has banned the importation of Australian beef byproducts such as offal over claims the food products used a growth stimulant which Moscow considers unsafe.

Global telecoms giants Samsung and Google has forged a 10-year cross-licensing deal on technology patents, which includes the existing ones as well as those filed within the term period.

Nicola Millar was out shopping with her 17-month-old daughter Violet when she accidentally locked the young toddler in their car. The first instinct was to call her roadside emergency service AA for help. She just couldn't believe her ears when she was refused help simply because her membership fees were outdated.

U.S. carrier Delta Air Lines has been named as the '2014 Airline of the Year' by the Air Transport World magazine. It's been 10 years since the award was given to an American airline company.

A bankruptcy court in the U.S. has approved the assets sale of Montreal, Maine and Atlantic Railways (MM&A), seven months after it figured in a fiery railway crash in Lac-Megantic, Quebec that killed 47 people.