Esther Tanquintic-Misa

At least five people have died and two others now in critical condition after getting infected with a new SARS-like virus in Saudi Arabia.

Travelers who have scheduled airflights this weekend at the Melbourne Airport have been advised to take alternative options as taxi drivers vowed to refuse taking in passengers in light of their protest to the end of the short-fare queues system at the airport.

Chinese President Xi Jinping's call for austerity among his high- and low-ranking officials have unwittingly created an alleged covert underground spending movement.

An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth. Essentially, the government of Papua New Guinea wants a life for every irrationally claimed life.

Mankind's treatment of the Earth as well as its contribution to the planet's weakening weather structure will become evident this month as concentrations of trapped carbon dioxide in the atmosphere reach 400 parts per million (ppm), or maybe even more.

He received it as a gift meant to entertain and educate him with the rigours of responsible gun handling and gun safety. But what should have been a simple child's toy has claimed a life of another loved one.

Big numbers don't always translate to greatness, at least in the case of the shipments of tablets by Apple Inc in the first quarter of 2013.

SAMSUNG Electronics Australia Pty Ltd has ordered for the recall of at least six models of its top loading washing due to a string of reported fire risk and hazards incidents.

The U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) has just spiced up the raging smartphone war between Samsung Electronics Co. and Apple Inc., with Blackberry sure to be a potential casualty of war, as the Pentagon announced it is currently working to award separate security approvals to the two companies as part of a wider plan to improve its communications network.

Australia's first ever banknote is scheduled to go on sale and expected to generate some $3.5 million for its current owner.

They basically offer the same internal functions, mobility and accessibility to the outside world. But when it comes to value for money, durability-wise, Apple's iPhone 5 has been found out to be more sturdy and heavy-duty than its counterparts, the Samsung's Galaxy S4 and S3.

Apple wants to expand people's iPhone experience from just being handheld to that being integrated right into a car's systems. Essentially, Apple wants car owners and passengers to experience and depend on its Apple Maps and Siri to get them to their destination.

Weather patterns are bound to get hotter and drier for Australia this May.

Farmers and cattle graziers affected by drought in Queensland could be celebrating a holiday if only tropical Cyclone Zane came in a bit early to water the state's barren farmlands.

Airline travelers frequently passing through Australia's Darwin International Airport may expect to experience improved changes as the airport starts next month its planned $75 million expansion upgrade.

For majority of the global population, the home is the safest place to be, right where one is enshrouded in the love of family. But not for some Australian families who deem it better to sleep on the streets than be confined in a home where domestic violence and family breakdown abound.

Being that it is much sought-after worldwide, it is not a phenomenon that Apple's iPhone series ever since it was first launched in 2007 is highly imitated.

Look out world. It seems not everything fake or imitation just originates from China. Another Asian country, war-torn Afghanistan, has been reportedly selling iPhone 5s for $700 courtesy of a retailer not recognized by the Apple Store hierarchy.

Australia's federal government is mulling to implement an 11-day public holiday cap per year.

Hunan Province has been included in Taiwan's alert list for travelers bound for China, with the total number of areas now reaching 10. Taiwan first issued the travel health advisory Thursday last week, April 25.

Public school students in Queensland might as well start looking this early for a possible new school as 55 state schools have been listed on the drawing board due for the padlock soon.

Residents of Cairns to the tip of Cape York in Australia's Queensland have been advised to brace for potential for heavy rain and strong winds as a low pressure brewing in the state could likely develop into Cyclone Zane.

Inasmuch as it has acknowledged it has become the world's largest greenhouse gas emitter, China is deadset to nonetheless accelerate its actions to reverse its role to the decelerating state of the global weather phenomenon.

GrainCorp Ltd., Australia's largest listed grain trader and the last standing independent grains handler, has conceded to a $3.4 billion takeover bid offer of U.S.-based Archer Daniels Midland Co (ADM).

Not because she's a lady meant she's weak. Or so thought a 21-year-old bus driver from Dubai who got beaten to a pulp no less than by a US Navy female sailor when he tried to rape her right on his bus.

Russian billionaire Alexander Nesis is poised to enter a joint venture that will tackle the extraction and production of precious rare earths from the country's giant Tomtor deposit in Yakutia.

The government of Taiwan has advised would-be travelers to China to take extra precautionary measures when visiting the country after one of its residents have contacted the new avian influenza virus H7N9.

Even with its massive weight and build, cute and cuddly yet scared pandas in China scrammed for safety at the height of the 6.6 magnitude earthquake that hit Sichuan province on April 20.

Affirming its location on the Pacific "Ring of Fire," Papua New Guinea has been struck yet again by a 6.4 magnitude earthquake on Wednesday, the fifth that the country experienced in a span of six weeks. No tsunami warnings were released.