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Vernon Yuen/NurPhoto via Getty ImagesBy BRITTYN CLENNETT, ABC News (HONG KONG) — Hundreds of revelers gathered at Hong Kong Disneyland on Friday to witness the opening of the resort’s reimagined Castle of Magical Dreams. The […]

Larina Marina/iStockBy JULIA JACOBO, ABC News (NEW YORK) — A new report details the grim circumstances facing marine animals as millions of pounds of plastic continue to make their way into the oceans every year. […]

Steve Parsons/PA Images via Getty ImagesBy KATIE KINDELAN, ABC News (LONDON) — Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip are marking their 73rd wedding anniversary with a gift from the next generation of royals, their great-grandchildren, Prince […]

Derek Brumby/iStockBy ABC News (TEHRAN) — A year has passed from nationwide protests in Iran and the resulting crackdown that came to be called “Bloody November.” Unrelenting pressure on local journalists and a lack of […]

Tim Rooke/Pool/Samir Hussein/WireImage By ZOE MAGEE, ABC News (LONDON) — Prince William has broken his silence on an investigation into a controversial interview with his mother, the late Princess Diana, that aired on the BBC […]

omersukrugoksu/iStockBy MORGAN WINSOR, ABC News (LONDON) — Kenyan police have arrested at least three medical officers from a public hospital in Nairobi for their alleged involvement in a child trafficking ring. “During an operation by […]

MivPiv/iStockBy BRUNO ROEBER, ALEEM AGHA and GUY DAVIES, ABC News (KABUL and LONDON) — Tuesday’s announcement that U.S. troop numbers in Afghanistan would be reduced from 4,500 to 2,500 by Jan. 15 by Acting Defense […]

Shany DrorBy GUY DAVIES, DRAGANA JOVANOVIC and MAGGIE RULLI, ABC News (NEW YORK) — Albert Einstein, Nikola Tesla and Isaac Newton — these are all geniuses from history that have become household names, recognized for […]

René Lorenz/iStockBy JULIA JACOBO, ABC News (NEW YORK) — Greenland is known as the largest contributor to rising sea levels but a new study explores how the island’s glaciers could lose more ice than previously […]

shaadjutt/iStockBY: JACK ARNHOLZ, ABC NEWS (LONDON) — The European Union plummeted into political crisis Monday when two member states blocked its coronavirus recovery plan after objections over a provision conditioning economic aid on a country’s […]

Pool/Samir Hussein/WireImageBy IVAN PEREIRA, ABC News (LONDON) — U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who was hospitalized in the spring for the novel coronavirus, is self-isolating after he was exposed to a member of Parliament who […]

omersukrugoksu/iStockBy AICHA EL HAMMAR CASTANO and IVAN PEREIRA, ABC News (LIMA, Peru) — Peru’s interim president, Manuel Merino, announced in a televised address Sunday that he is stepping down just six days after his inauguration. […]

CGinspiration/iStockBY: SOMAYEH MALEKIAN, ABC NEWS (WASHINGTON) — Perhaps no other country will be as directly affected by the outcome of the U.S. election as Iran. As the U.S. undergoes a bumpy transition of power between […]

loops7/iStockBy GENEVIEVE SHAW BROWN, ABC News (NEW YORK) — With all that the COVID-19 pandemic has taken away from our children — school, birthday parties, family gatherings and so much more — there’s one thing […]

Viktorcvetkovic/iStockBy AARON KWON, ABC News(SEOUL, South Korea) — Two relatively new Twitter accounts that appear to belong to North Korean officials began getting a lot of attention on Friday. Tweets from the accounts, neither of […]

Official White House Photo by Shealah DufourBy GUY DAVIES, ABC News (LONDON) — During a press conference Tuesday, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo was asked if the State Department was engaged with the incoming administration […]

macky_ch/iStockBy PATRICK REEVELL, ABC News (MOSCOW) — Russia’s supreme court has freed American businessman, Michael Calvey, who has spent more than a year-and-a-half in detention in a case heavily criticized by the United States and […]

pavalena/iStockBy LUIS MARTINEZ and MATT SEYLER, ABC News (NEW YORK) — Five Americans were among seven international peacekeepers killed when their helicopter crashed in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula. The international observer mission in the Sinai Peninsula […]

pavalena/iStockBy LUIS MARTINEZ and MATT SEYLER, ABC News (NEW YORK) — Six Americans were among the eight international peacekeepers killed when their helicopter crashed in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula. The international observer mission in the Sinai […]

yorkfoto/iStockBy JULIA JACOBO, ABC News (NEW YORK) — Scientists have discovered a new species of monkeys in central Myanmar with the help of a 100-year-old tissue sample. The primate, named Popa langur after the extinct […]