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winhorse/iStock(HONG KONG) — Hong Kong International Airport has canceled all remaining flight departures for the day after thousands of anti-government protesters flooded its terminals. Members of the public were advised not to come to the […]

CT757fan/iStock(WASHINGTON) — Officials have identified a United States service member who was killed Saturday in the northern Nineveh province of Iraq while advising Iraqi security forces, according to the U.S.-led coalition fighting the Islamic State […]

EMS Foundation(MAPUTO, Mozambique) — Kris Everatt was tracking lion prides as part of his conservation research in Mozambique’s Limpopo National Park when he came across dozens of dead vultures near a waterhole. As he walked […]

Oleksii Liskonih/iStock(SEOUL, South Korea) — North Korea has fired two more unidentified projectiles into the Sea of Japan, South Korean news agency Yonhap reported Friday. The projectiles were reportedly fired from the northeastern city of […]

Oleksii Liskonih/iStock(PARIS) — The French Foreign Ministry said Friday that it remains committed to de-escalating tensions around the Iran nuclear deal, and that it has the authority to speak on the issue, following a rebuke […]

ZoltanGabor/iStock(LONDON) — Large parts of London and the southeastern part of the United Kingdom were without electricity on Friday night. The outage, caused by the failure of two power generators on National Grid’s network, caused […]

Provided(NEW YORK) — Three people are not only lucky to survive a plane crash on Thursday, they also have a fishing boat to thank for plucking them out of the Atlantic Ocean. The single-engine plane, […]

Thanapol sinsrang/iStock(NEW YORK) — Residents of planet Earth fret not — a 1,000-foot asteroid whizzing by our planet this weekend won’t even come close to making impact. In fact, while asteroid 2006 QQ23 is considered […]

U.S. Defense Department(WASHINGTON) — U.S. and Canadian fighter aircraft intercepted two Russian Tu-95 Bear H bombers over the Beaufort Sea north of the Alaskan and Canadian coast on Thursday, according to North American Aerospace Defense […]

hidesy/iStock(LONDON) — New legislation that would decriminalize abortion in New Zealand passed its first reading in the Parliament with 94 votes to 23 Thursday. The legislation, which was announced on Monday by the Justice Minister […]