Esther Tanquintic-Misa

The U.S. has sounded the alarm, giving Syria a one-week deadline ultimatum to turn over all its chemical weapons or otherwise face the wrath of a military strike. As expected, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad issued a counter verbal attack that its government will not take lightly any international intrusion to the country’s civil war. Would doomsday World War 3 occur middle of September 2013?

Pope Francis has led what could be the largest inter-faith rally against the planned U.S. military strike launch on Syria. At least 100,000 attended the peace vigil he had called on Saturday in Rome.

A wild monkey, presumably hungry, has viciously attacked a mother and her eight month old infant son at a wildlife park in Guìyáng, southwest China. While the mother was changing the nappy of her son, a monkey out from nowhere jumped on them and ripped off one of the infant’s testicles, much to the utter shock of the mother.

Japan's winning bid of the 2020 Olympics Games has many tethering for the safety and security of the world populace joining the historic event in Tokyo seven years from now amid the more sinister radiation scare from the crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant.

An industry-wide labour strike at South Africa’s gold sector has ended with most mine workers accepting an eight per cent pay increase.

Officials from Israel's customs agency nabbed a French consul employee on Tuesday after the latter tried to smuggle into the country 152 kilogrammes of gold bars plus 500 kilogrammes of tobacco as well as checks amounting to $2 million.

As the world tethers on a balance, watching its global leaders fight for reason to blast Syria for its alleged illegal use of chemical weapons, the global populace likewise ponders if World War III is really just about to happen and will anyone ever survive a chemical gas attack.

The U.S. had decried the world stands to gain no support to curb Syria's alleged use of illegal chemical weapons because Russia had held hostage the 15-nation panel of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC).

In what could be a first for his 6-month tenure as chief spiritual leader of the 1.2-billion strong Roman Catholic church, the popularity of Pope Francis has hit a snag following the Vatican's recall of its envoy to the Dominican Republic amid child abuse allegations.

Any company which has a table of organisation should ought to let it work to its full advantage. In the case of Yahoo! which has recently launched a new logo, CEO Marissa Mayer should better have left any aesthetic dealings to her team. Her job after all deals much more than tinkering with the design of a new logo.

Where trucks and delivery vans can't reach, robotic drones may be the solution. In China, a parcel express courier has started finding good domestic use for robotic drones. It uses them to deliver and drop packages to target recipients, especially in hard-to-reach far flung areas in the country.

The extremely high levels of ammonia discharged by a plant in just a span of 40 hours have killed a whopping number of 110 tonnes of fish from a river in China's central Hubei province.

Xiaomi Inc maybe only three years old in business in China, but the fact it has managed to snag Apple's market share, never mind if its products are mostly knock-offs, could be an indication it could also very well conquer the world soon.

Canada may have been ranked as the 14th globally competitive economy by the World Economic Forum (WEF), but Canadians aren't happy about it. For one, it just maintained status quo from last year. Moreover, the government hardly spends on research and development.

Although it has yet to receive reports or complaints of accidents and injuries, Ford Motor Co has ordered the recall of some 370,000 vehicles across its U.S. and Canada markets due to issues on the steering shaft of the involved units.

With President Barack Obama on Wednesday gaining a vote of support over his bid for military action against Syria, should the world already cower and start digging underground hideouts in preparation for the apocalyptic doomsday WW3?

Crisis-stricken Japan, which has yet to gain a definite hold on how to arrest the radiation problems of a nuclear plant downed by an earthquake two years ago, has again been shaken by a strong 6.9 magnitude quake on Wednesday.

Unless the world gets it act together to counter the worsening global climate change, it won't be long before it sees the total wipe out of the oceans' coral reefs.

A Florida family just couldn't believe when Lady Luck smiled her big smile on them on Sept 1 when they discovered a trove of gold that could be worth more than $300,000 in a sunken ship in the Atlantic Ocean.

At least three earthquakes struck Canada's Vancouver Island on Tuesday, with the largest measured at magnitude 6 on the Richter scale, the U.S. Geological Survey said. The other two aftershocks which came within 20 minutes of each other measured 4.5 and 4.9, according to Natural Resources Canada. No tsunami warnings were issued following the three shakers.

As U.S. President Barack Obama continued to rally on giving justification to the importance and necessity of a military strike against Syria, the American people have likewise let out their collective voice be heard against the punitive action.

Losing a child due to horrific circumstances is painful enough. What makes it doubly painful is when parents cannot pursue the alleged killer all because the suspect was also a child himself.

An attack on Syria regardless of with or without parliamentary support but without the necessary backing of the United Nations is already a prelude to doomsday WW3, Noam Chomsky, an anti-war activist and author said on Monday.

Beijing on Monday has laid down a new set of schemes meant to reduce its pollution emissions, as the China Meteorological Administration (CMA) commence issuing forecasts for air pollution conditions around the country.

Yahoo! has finally shut down and folded up its operations in China, in what is to be an expected scenario since the company began its gradual phase out beginning with the closure of its e-mail service in August.

In what was believed to be a rare occurrence for the country, a tornado has struck the Koshigaya city of Japan, ripping off the roofs of a number of houses and buildings as well as toppling down a number of structures. No casualties have been reported. At least 67 were injured.

Even crop-damaging pests such as beetles, moths, bacteria, worms, fungi and other pests are also trying to escape the Earth's excessive heat. A study released by Exeter University in the UK on Sunday showed that the pests have been racing to either the north or south poles at an average speed of 3 kilometres a year or a rate of more than 25km a decade since 1960.

They were there just for some routine training exercise and yet two of the warships of the Royal Canadian Navy collided with each other in the Pacific Ocean over the weekend, presumably due to human error, while conducting manoeuvres.

A 6.4 magnitude earthquake that struck eastern Indonesia has been felt in some parts of northern Australia.