Esther Tanquintic-Misa

Time and again for the nth time, Wikipedia will not bow down to any censorship demands from China, Jimmy Wales, co-founder of the largest online free-content encyclopedia, said.

The world is now abuzz over reports that North Korea has just launched its very first smartphone, labelled the AS1201 Arirang.

His parents went to seek a court's assistance and ruling as to whose last name should he carry throughout his lifetime. However, the judge, on hearing his first name, had ordered it changed immediately and then affixed both his parents' last names to complete his identity. What was the original first name? Messiah.

Sales and prices, as well as construction of new homes in Canada, have slowly picked up in July, but analysts and housing experts remained wary the trend could be sustained.

Workers of the damaged Fukushima nuclear plant in Japan have alleged its operator Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) have been lying about the true state of meltdown crisis in the facility.

Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook's chief operating officer and sister to founder Mark Zuckerberg, has just gotten $91 million richer.

A remote area in China's Tibet has been jolted by a 6.1-magnitude earthquake on Monday at 5:23 a.m. local time.

Pope Francis has issued a new decree effectively expanding the supervisory role of the Financial Information Authority (FIA) over the Institute for Works of Religion (IOR), otherwise known as the Vatican Bank, in a serious attempt to thwart and eliminate any money-laundering schemes and activities within its halls.

Two men, Yemeni and Chadian nationals, have been arrested in Saudi Arabia after they were found to have been allegedly communicating with the Yemeni branch of the terror network, al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), the country's Interior Ministry said on Thursday.

Bullet train services in Japan were suspended after the country's meteorological agency issued an alert for an upcoming earthquake. However, as the people braced for higher magnitude quake, what came off was a measly one.

All around the world, the smoldering heat wave continues to break and set records from end to end of the globe.

Police authorities have arrested two men, both aged 18, in a landmark cyber bullying case that led to the suicide death of a teenage girl in Nova Scotia, Canada.

Pope Francis has chosen to write his own personal message for Muslims around the world on the occasion of the 2013 Eid al-Fitr, although he was not the first pontiff to have ever done so.

As China steps up measures to combat its growing air pollution from out of proportions, imposing excessive rates on automotive license plates to encourage residents from buying additional units, local Chinese auto makers are unfortunately being driven to extinction.

After admitting in July that crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant has indeed been pouring contaminated radioactive water into the ocean waters, it was just a matter of time as to when the world will know just how much toxic liquid it actually releases. On Wednesday, the information was released and it was like World War II again. Since being damaged in 2011, the Fukushima facility has leaked a whopping 300 tonnes of radioactive water daily into the ocean.

The prolonged heat and low rainfall that UK experienced in July not only distressed humans but has also affected the otherwise peaceful conditions of freshwater fishes in the lakes and rivers. On Wednesday, the Environment Agency reported at least 50,000 fishes have died off the British coast due to dangerously low oxygen levels in the waters.

Effective Oct 28, 2013, Canadians heading for pilgrimage, expatriates and even students may now fly direct to Saudi Arabia.

Canadian Blood Services has made a desperate call to all health and able-bodied Canadian to donate blood to avert the looming potential shortage in its national reserves.

Sudanese President Omar Al-Bashir was bound for Tehran over the weekend when his plane was barred from flying over Saudi Arabia's airspace. The sole reason was that Sudanese authorities had failed to properly coordinate its intentions to the authorities from Saudi Arabia.

Diary giant Fonterra of New Zealand has gotten itself into another mess in China. This time, it's been ordered to pay US$793,000 for overpricing its baby milk formula products in the world's second-largest economy.

You'd think humans and animals only have the ability to accumulate fat deposits in their bodies. Apparently not. Under the streets of London, a 15-tonne lump of food fat the size of a double-decker-bus has been discovered which could only have mounted up over the years.

Apple Inc apparently has lost its days of glory in China. A latest survey released by research firm Canalys showed Xiaomi, one of China's low-end smartphone makers, has outbumped Tim Cook's Apple in the country's smartphone ranks to capture the No. 6 spot. Apple Inc slid to No. 7.

Days after the U.S. and UK suspended the operations of its global network of embassies and consulates, U.S. intelligence officials disclosed the terrorist group Al Qaeda may have already developed a liquid explosive highly undetectable even by the most sophisticated scanning machines.

In the eyes of all two year olds, their parents are not just their heroes but essentially their everything. Though they would imitate their parents every action and behaviour, it does not necessarily automatically mean that it's the be-all and end-all of it.

A newborn baby boy in northwest China's Shaanxi Province has been reunited with his parents after getting sold to human traffickers no less than by the attending maternity doctor or obstetrician who facilitated his birth.

Smartphone maker Apple Inc gets tangled in yet another controversy, this time involving its suppliers Foxconn Technology Group and Unimicron Technology, alleged to have been dumping toxic wastewater from heavy metals into China's local rivers.

The heat wave currently enveloping China's southern regions has not only affected crops and people's temperaments. It has also led to sudden cars getting burned and roads getting warped.

Directly aimed to avert an aging population crisis, China may possibly implement its new two-child policy on 2014, albeit only on selective couples or family structures.

A one-year old infant, out on a holiday with her parents, suddenly became an orphan after her parents fell to their death when the cable car they were all riding on fell 100 feet or 30 metres into the forested mountainside in the Alps.