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pabradyphoto/iStock(LONDON) — After nearly seven years essentially trapped inside Ecuador’s embassy in London, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange had become an expensive bother to his hosts – they wanted him out. “They were over him, he […]

Kerrick/iStock(BANGKOK) — Oil rig workers have rescued a dog found swimming in the Gulf of Thailand some 137 miles offshore. The workers spotted the pup paddling near the rig Friday afternoon before it swam toward […]

FRANCOIS GUILLOT/AFP/Getty Images(PARIS) — A fire broke out at the Notre Dame cathedral in Paris, one of the city’s most iconic sights. The fire began at 6:50 p.m. local time Monday, the Paris fire department […]

Jack Taylor/Getty Images(LONDON) — The president of Ecuador has claimed that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange used the London embassy that was his home for seven years as a “center for spying,” as new footage emerged […]

Phoebe Natanson/ABC News(ROME) —  Seventy-five years after eight U.S. servicemen were summarily shot at a hermitage on the top of a mount overlooking the Italian village of Montebuono during World War II, local Italian and […]

Lukas Schulze – UEFA / Contributor / Getty Images(AMSTERDAM) — Amsterdam has long been held as the model for the modern sex industry, with prostitution legalized and rebranded as part of the leisure industry. Until […]

Courtesy Drew Pasler(MIAMI) —  An American doctor is recovering after he was shot three times during a mission trip to help schoolchildren in Haiti last week. Dr. Doug Burbella, 58, and a group of missionaries […]

Jack Taylor/Getty Images(LONDON) — It’s been a little more than nine years since Chelsea Manning first contacted Wikileaks and provided Julian Assange’s organization with hundreds of thousands of classified documents and a video of an […]

Jack Taylor/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) — After nearly seven years holed up inside the cramped Ecuadorian Embassy in London, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is dreading the prospect of violent attacks on him in an American prison, one […]

Franco Origlia/Getty Images(ROME) — After more than a year of restoration, the 28 steps that make up the “Scala Sancta,” or Holy Stairs, of the Pontifical Shrine in Rome were unveiled on Thursday, just in […]