Esther Tanquintic-Misa

The United Nations has called on the world's governments and the entire global community to spare a helping hand to assist some seven million in urgent need of humanitarian aid in Syria.

Monsignor Nunzio Scarano, a suspended Vatican official who was arrested in June on money-laundering charges, told prosecutors that his office, the Administration of the Patrimony of the Apostolic See (APSA), has handled and provided financial services for outside clients.

Xiaomi Inc, inarguably Apple Inc's toughest competitor yet in China, has introduced the Mi3 smartphone handset along with an accompanying video.

Waving Typhoon Man-yi as a reasonable enough excuse, the operator of the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant has again dislodged contaminated water, this time in the guise of rainwater, into the Pacific Ocean

Daocheng Yading Airport, the world's highest-altitude civilian airport, at 4,411 metres above sea level, has been inaugurated in Tibet, China.

A group of scientists from the Wildlife Conservation Society, the University of Queensland, and Stanford University have come out with a new roadmap identifying the areas or Earth regions that are most vulnerable and least vulnerable to climate change.

Yemen will be reviving a bill that would set the minimum legal marrying age in Yemen to 18 years old.

As if its radiation concerns aren't enough, Japan might receive another radiation leaking problem from the same crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant. Typhoon Man-yi has started battering southern Japan and its path has been forecast to directly hit the nuclear plant.

Residents in Japan are in for even colder winter months. Japan has shut down its last remaining working nuclear power plant for maintenance check over the weekend. Plans as when it will resume operations remain unclear.

At least six people have died in the floods that ravaged 15 counties in Colorado on Sunday, while the number of unaccounted people have risen to 1,254. Authorities fear the number of fatalities could rise as rains continued to fall.

A double whammy weather disturbance now blasting Mexico has killed at least 19 and displaced thousands. Hurricane Ingrid and Storm Daniel combined forces to dump as much rain that triggered landslides and floods on the country's east and west coasts on Sunday.

A Canadian woman has been arrested in Colombia after her fake baby bump yielded 2kgs (4.4lbs) of cocaine.

A group of Chinese archaeologists has discovered the location of the tomb of Shangguan Wan'er, China's first female prime minister. The site was found in the northern province of Shaanxi, near an airport in Xianyang.

Apparently, not only human babies suffer the fate of rejection and abandonment from their mothers. Even baby animals too. In China, a newly born baby calf elephant had cried inconsolably for five hours, pained by the rejection it suffered from its own mum.

When the parents of 7-month-old Finn Jordan hired Alexis Khan, they thought they had found a decent babysitter. Apparently not, all thanks to their loyal hero family dog which acted as the baby's protector every time he was left to the care of the 22-year-old young woman.

Collaborative efforts to control and manage the escalating global warming and resulting climate change have unfortunately been found being undermined by the continued carbon emissions of 50 of the world's biggest-emitting companies.

No one in the whole of the world knows for sure when, but on Wednesday, Americans got the utmost surprise of their lives when Russia's very own president, Vladimir Putin, wrote a letter addressed to each and every single U.S. citizen, urging them to caution whatever plans they have against civil war-stricken Syria.

The Hurun Report, a report which follows and enlists China's wealthy, has disclosed that 64 additional billionaires have been added into the list. Despite a topsy turvy economy, with the new additions, China's number of richest now total a whopping 300. Wang Jianlin, a billionaire Chinese real estate developer, is the country's new richest tycoon this year.

Contrary to common belief, it was not human hunting but climate change that wiped out the totality of the woolly mammoth species from the face of earth, a study published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B said.

El Niño events happening around the world are easily influenced by external changes, according to a study published in Nature Geoscience. And changes in global warming could apparently temper the wrath and strength of these El Niño activities.

Coca-Cola Japan, gearing up for the coming winter months, is set to introduce in October the Canada Dry Hot Ginger Ale, a warm, hot ginger ale drink that not only comes in a can but also includes the bubbly fizz.

Apple Inc, succumbing to competition brought by domestic player Xiaomi Inc, has finally released a low-cost smartphone iPhone 5c exclusive to China.

A lot of women in China are getting infertile, no thanks to the government's one-child policy but to the air pollution which has gripped and seriously affected the health of thousands in the country, according to statistics gathered by researchers.

An anti-gay Christian Scouting movement has just been launched in the U.S. Called 'Trail Life USA,' the faith-based group has been specifically formed to denounce the May 2013 decision of the Boy Scouts of America (BSA) when it overturned a ban to allow young boy gays and homosexuals to join its programs.

Russian state corporation Rostec on Tuesday announced it has laid down plans to undergo massive rare earths production in support of the country’s bid to lessen its dependence on China for the supply of the precious metals.

In what might become global history's momentous yet unbelievable collaboration, the U.S. and Russia have become unlikely allies as both work to win over Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to turnover his government's stockpile of chemical weapons. News of alternative solutions to avert any impending doomsday World War 3 immediately caused the global markets to jump on Tuesday.

China has issued new rules for its netizens' use of the internet, indicating online rumour mongers and those who post libelous comments stand to face defamation charges as well as jail imprisonment of three years maximum time.

Some 36 gold coins, a gold medallion inscribed with a Jewish ritual candelabrum and a selection of gold and silver jewellery have been unearthed by a group of Israeli archeologists underneath the Temple Mount, one of the most important religious sites in the Old City of Jerusalem.

Want to actually have Superman in your hands? The Royal Canadian Mint has unveiled seven coins into its collection on Monday, this time with the legendary comic action hero Superman in the center of it all.