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Samir Hussein/ Samir Hussein/WireImageBy ZOE MAGEE, ABC News (LONDON) — Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh, was admitted to a London hospital, Buckingham Palace announced Wednesday. Queen Elizabeth’s 99-year old-husband was taken by car from […]

NASA/JPL-CaltechBy CATHERINE THOREBCKE, ABC News (NEW YORK) — NASA is expected to land its Perseverance rover on Mars this Thursday, as part of one of the agency’s most ambitious deep-space missions to search for signs […]

Behrouz Mehri – Pool/Getty ImagesBY: ANTHONY TROTTER AND MORGAN WINSOR, ABC NEWS (TOKYO) — Japan launched its mass COVID-19 vaccination campaign on Wednesday, months after other major economies did so and amid concerns over whether […]

leminuit/iStockBy JULIA JACOBO, ABC News (NEW YORK) — Scientists now have evidence that mammoths were roaming the earth more than ONE million years ago with the discovery of the oldest-dating skeletal fragments ever found. An […]

ABC NewsBY: ANNE LAURENT AND MEREDITH DELISO, ABC NEWS (NEW YORK) — As snow and ice slam much of the southern United States, migrant communities along the U.S.-Mexico border are enduring freezing temperatures with scarce […]

4kodiak/iStockBY: CHRISTINE THEODOROU AND IVAN PERIERA, ABC NEWS (LONDON) — Thousands of Amazon employees in the U.K. were told to self-isolate after COVID-19 tests initially came back positive — but it turned out to be […]

CT757fan/iStockBy MORGAN WINSOR, ABC News (LONDON) — A rocket attack targeting the American-led military coalition in the northern Iraqi city of Erbil killed a civilian contractor and wounded nine others on Monday night, according to […]

Yawar Nazir/Getty ImagesBY: JULIA JACOBO, ABC NEWS (NEW YORK) — Warming temperatures across the globe are changing landscapes and threatening local cities and communities. A devastating break of a glacier in the Himalayas on Feb. […]

West Midland PoliceBy GUY DAVIES, ABC News (LONDON) — Police in England broke up an illegal nightclub over the weekend and released thermal imaging as dozens made their escape from an establishment where an estimated […]

Karwai Tang/WireImageBy KATIE KINDELAN, ABC News (NEW YORK) — Oprah Winfrey has scored another major interview — a sit-down with Prince Harry and Meghan, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex. The interview will air in […]

Egypt’s Supreme Council of AntiquitiesBY: HATEM MAHER, ABC NEWS (NEW YORK) — Egypt said on Saturday it had uncovered what may be “the world’s oldest industrial-scale brewery” in the ancient city of Abydos, in the […]

Leon Neal/Getty ImagesBY: KATIE KINDELAN, ABC NEWS (NEW YORK) — Archie, the son of Prince Harry and Meghan, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, is going to be a big brother. Harry and Meghan announced […]

Oleksii Liskonih/iStockBy CONOR FINNEGAN, ABC News(WASHINGTON) — The U.S. will lift the designation that Yemen’s Houthi rebels are a terrorist organization on Tuesday, Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced, after humanitarian groups warned the legal […]

NataliaCatalina/iStockBy ZOE MAGEE and KATIE KINDELAN, ABC News (LONDON) — Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, scored a win Thursday in her legal battle with Associated Newspapers Ltd., the publishers of the Daily Mail and the […]

yorkfoto/iStockBy GUY DAVIES and SOHEL UDDIN, ABC News (LONDON) — Protesters once again took to the streets of Myanmar on the country’s Union Day, which marks the birth of the republic, as the ruling military […]

OlegAlbinsky/iStockBy CONOR FINNEGAN, ABC News(WASHINGTON) — Dozens of Myanmar health care workers sing in support of ousted civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi.The U.S. is implementing its first penalties against Myanmar’s military leaders after declaring […]

folgt/iStockBy MORGAN WINSOR, ABC News (LONDON) — For thousands of years, Stonehenge has stood on the downlands of what is now southern England. With its origins and purpose shrouded in mystery, the massive prehistoric monument […]

brightstars/iStockBy CATHERINE THORBECKE, ABC News (NEW YORK) — China’s Tianwen-1 mission successfully reached Mars orbit on Wednesday after a nearly 7-month journey from Earth, Chinese state-run news agency Xinhua confirmed. China’s arrival on the Red […]

DanHenson1/iStockBy GUY DAVIES, ABC News (LONDON) — The prominent Saudi women’s rights activist Loujain al-Hathloul was released from prison on Wednesday, according to her family, but human rights organizations have warned she is still banned […]

yorkfoto/iStockBy BEN GITTLESON, ABC News (WASHINGTON) — President Joe Biden on Wednesday announced he had approved an executive order allowing the United States to sanction individuals and entities connected to the military’s seizure of power […]