Esther Tanquintic-Misa

A sting operation for online child predators carried by police operatives in the lead up to this weekend's recently concluded Father's Day celebration had yielded 41 arrests, including 1 female. The operation spanned several counties throughout the San Francisco Bay Area and central Florida.

China may have become finally aggressive in combating its pollution-riddled air and environment, but it would take at least 18 years for the zooming super-power to realise the fruits of its labor and be finally able to eat it too.

The death toll from the SARS-like Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus (MERS-CoV) in Saudi Arabia has risen to 32, as the kingdom's Health Ministry disclosed on Monday that four more have recently succumbed to the fatal disease.

A Papua New Guinea father of four has been beheaded by his own daughter whom he had allegedly raped. However, members of the local community have sworn to protect the 18-year-old woman at all costs, claiming her father deserved to die after all.

When the ever evolving world of technology gave birth to text messaging some 20 years ago, people from around the world rejoiced at how messages can now be immediately sent to target recipients. Unwittingly, however, it caused the death of some communications tool, such as India's telegram service.

China is already set to launch its first carbon trading market this week. Reports said it will be officially opened on Tuesday. Shenzhen, a Special Economic Zone, will be China's first carbon emissions trading market.

The kingdom of oil-rich nation Saudi Arabia has advised pilgrims to the annual Mecca Hajj season to defer to next year their plans of going to the holy city, citing delayed expansion works at the Grand Mosque as well as fears over the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus (MERS-CoV).

Advocates for the welfare of children are urging legislators in New Zealand to revise the country's rape law, citing women are also very much possible sexual predators after reports exploded over the weekend of a pre-teen boy fathering a child from a 36-year old woman.

Lawmakers from New York City and New York State are already working on laws to regulate away a problem and ban a potential crisis that hasn't not existed yet. This early, lawmakers from both areas have presented bills to keep off 3D printed guns off the streets of New York.

Transport systems in France were severely crippled this week as thousands of employees working for the country's aviation and rail sectors left their posts, leaving thousands of commuters stranded in stations and airports.

Coles Supermarkets, an Australian supermarket chain owned by Wesfarmers, is now inside the hot, fiery oven. On Wednesday, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) lodged a legal action before the Federal Courts versus the food retailer against its misleading claims over the bread that it sells in the store.

The European Union has lodged a complaint against China before the World Trade Organization (WTO) against the rising Asian power's tariffs imposed on imported stainless steel pipes.

A man, who so believed his constitutional right had been violated when the prostitute he ordered came in physically unappealing to his taste, had just been slapped with a warning by the police, but only after he barraged Britain's hotline 999 with his complaint.

The International Labor Organisation (ILO), in a depressing report of the times, has released figures of child labourers around the world, which have been recorded at a whopping more than 10.5 million.

Australia is on high alert again after health authorities have discovered a potentially alarming third case of Legionnaire's disease at the Wesley Hospital in the state of Brisbane.

The New York State Assembly has just expanded the definition of terms of what rape is all about in its state. Now even unwanted anal and oral sexual assault is considered rape and thus punishable under law.

Challenged by the police's assessments that arrests can't be carried out based on just inappropriate text messages from a particular phone number, a mother went undercover to nail the child predator who lurked on her child's Facebook account, with only a Target bra ad as a tool.

As if the reprimand or punishment they received for their unwanted photos on Facebook were not enough, the same set of female Israeli soldiers are on the pounce again, this time purposely recording themselves in a very provocative, sexy, half-nude video showing off their curvaceous and vavavoom booties and bodies. And as with their earlier photos, they likewise released the video for the world to know.

What with many if not all of the world's nations and citizens fascinated and wanting to work with China and its residents, the country has started to work around plans of setting up overseas university campuses in a bid to further catapult its growing power.

Offenders who insult religious feelings in Russia will not only get a verbal backlash but could also end up serving jail time by up to three years. If passed by the Upper House and signed by Russian President Vladimir Putin, Russia's Duma expects it to become a law in July.

Russia's Duma or lower parliament has just passed by a whopping 436-0 landslide vote a legislative bill banning gay propaganda that is aimed to people at under 18 years old. The bill effectively passes on to the upper parliament and to Russian President Vladimir Putin before getting into a full-fledged law.

Gun owners as well as weapons control management advocates and kibitzers are again at odds. A freak tragic accident has claimed the life of a Phoenix, Arizona man when his own 4-year old son took hold of a loaded gun and pointed it on his chest, in a surprise visit to the house of his former roommate gone wrong.

As the U.S. can't seem to share one voice yet on policies and measures regarding gun control, a nonprofit group has started giving free firearms training and equipping single women and single moms with free shotguns.

Rio Tinto's coal assets in Australia are being eyed by suitors from China and India.

A Bull Mastiff has viciously zapped the life of a 5-year-old child who weathered to live the tornado that ripped through their home in Moore, Oklahoma on May 20.

Headwinds will collide in Russia as parliament mulls to approve a new anti-gay law bill that not only seeks to arrest and imprison people for promoting homosexuality but also impose stringent fines. Foreigners who are members of the LGBT community don't hold international immunity and will be immediately deported.

At 17:38 Beijing time (09:38 GMT) on Tuesday, China will again hurtle into space its newest space mission aboard Shenzhou-10 as part of plans to build and place a permanent Chinese space station above the Earth in the near future.

The list of drought-affected shires in Australia's Queensland continue to expand, this time with the inclusion of Mount Isa, taking the total number of drought-declared shires to 14.

German automobile manufacturer Volkswagen has told car owners from Australian it is willing to conduct free check-up inspections on their units following a coroner's inquest into the death of a Volkswagen Golf driver in Melbourne in 2011.