Esther Tanquintic-Misa

High-risk sex offenders on parole from Australia's state of Victoria will be fitted with GPS-enabled bracelets to allow police authorities track their every move.

The death toll due to the new SARS-like coronavirus has reached 15 lives in Saudi Arabia. France, on the other hand, has reported its second infection which was believed to have contracted through human-to-human transmission.

It took factories to collapse and more than 1,000 lives dead before Bangladesh even considered hiking the minimum wage pay of its more than three million garment workers. Too late a hero, skeptics said.

Aftershocks continued to rattle the communities and residents of Iran's Bashagard City following the 6.2 magnitude earthquake that struck off Saturday, killing one child and injuring at least 20 others.

Two Texan boys, aged 8 and 5, were playing, as what most kids their age do, on a cheery morning over the weekend at the younger boy's house when all too sudden the sound of a gun fired roared through the house. The elder boy found a .22-caliber rifle inside the bedroom at where they were playing, aimed it at the younger boy's head and eventually pulled the trigger.

Matthew Hawksley, a 25-year-old welding engineer who is preparing to take part in the London Triathlon, thinks he isn’t the luckiest guy on earth but is nevertheless thankful he has a cat’s nine lives.

Rummaging through someone's things tucked away in old filthy boxes or closets can prove to elicit beneficial historical facts, or even items. Such as in the case of a grandchild who discovered their grandfather had kept a penis-shaped ashtray bearing the face of Adolf Hitler.

Steel production has been cited as one of the industries that pushed the levels of carbon dioxide trapped in the atmosphere to accumulate. Wanting to curb its rising contribution to global warming, researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) devised a technology that could make steel production environmentally-friendly.

Steel production has been cited as one of the industries that pushed the levels of carbon dioxide trapped in the atmosphere to accumulate. Wanting to curb its rising contribution to global warming, researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) devised a technology that could make steel production environmentally friendly.

Countries located in the Northern Hemisphere may well heave a sigh of relief as weather forecasters from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) said on Thursday the weather phenomenon twins El Niño and La Niña are less likely to develop through the late summer and towards the winter.

YouTube has launched on Thursday its paid subscription service, with an initial 30 content creators included in the list. These paid channels included Comedy.TV, Baby First Plus, Jim Henson Family TV, Ultimate Fighting Championship and PGA Digital Golf Academy, among others.

Australian employers took in some 50,100 workers in April, hinting optimism the country continues to be resilient against the global fiscal economy.

Australians planning to go to a holiday rendezvous ought to take extra precautions in their online booking activities as the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) on Thursday disclosed at least some $250,000 worth in Internet scams have been lost in 2013 alone.

Factories of at least 18 garment makers in two cities in Bangladesh have been ordered to shut down as the death toll from the April collapse of a building rose steadily, now reaching 804.

On Wednesday, French health authorities confirmed a 65-year-old local has contracted the deadly new SARS-like novel coronavirus, the country's first infected case.

Communities and residents in Western Australia have been advised to brace themselves and take cover for a severe weather disturbance over the next 24 hours.

Anxiety over the possible spillover to humans of the bird flu strain H7N9 grew larger after a study noted that pigs that caught the flu were likewise growing in numbers.

Despite a growing number of deaths, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said there was no need yet to impose a travel ban to Saudi Arabia in light of the new SARS-like novel coronavirus now gripping the country.

Heroes are made. And they don't necessarily need to be white or perhaps as dashing as Thor's Chris Hemsworth, as filthy rich as Iron Man's Tony Stark or as powerful as Superman. Heroes can come from any nook in the neighborhood and yes, from any colour or race, such as "black" Charles Ramsey, the accidental hero in the escape of decade-long kidnapped Amanda Berry.

You need to get out of the house to do important errands, but you're highly worrisome that some burglar will barge into your home right at the moment you are not there to defend it. Fret not with Presence, an app specifically created to monitor the domestic ongoing activity right in your home.

Google-owned video streaming giant YouTube will now be charging avid users of its video sharing services $1.99 a month to view the videos at over 50 popular specialized premium channels.

A surprise jolt underneath the Philippine's Mayon Volcano, world-renowned for its perfect cone shape until its last eruption in 2010, has claimed 5 lives when the volcano spewed ash early on the morning of Tuesday.

Because the bird flu strain H7N9 that has claimed 27 lives in China has yet to be confirmed that it can be transferred from human to human, health experts said it won't become pandemic. Well, at least not yet or not at least 10 years from now.

Apart from re-elected Prime Minister Najib Razak, one of the big winners in Malaysia's recently concluded national elections is the Australian rare earths miner Lynas Corp and its' processing plant in Kuantan.

At least 1,170 students stand to get affected and 157 teachers stand to lose their jobs once Queensland pursues to close nine of its state public schools.

Finnish mobile phone maker Nokia may already pale in comparison to the rise and creative inventions of Apple and Samsung Electronics Co, but in the UAE, it still remains king of mobile phones, at least according to a review by the country's Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (TRA).

In what seemed to be another feather on its cap, devices created by Samsung Electronics Co have entered the radar zone of muggers in San Francisco, US, with the device getting preferential treatment over Apple's iPhone.

The number of infected due to the new SARS-like novel coronavirus in Saudi Arabia have jumped to 13 cases, of which seven have already died.

True to their word, Melbourne's taxi drivers converged for another protest action at the city's airport, creating passenger and traffic mayhem on the first day of the week.