Mustafa Hassona/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images(ISRAEL) — Thousands of Palestinians gathered for a second Friday of big protests along the fence dividing Israel and the Gaza Strip. By late afternoon, the Gaza Health Ministry said at least three Palestinians had been Read More
Chris Jackson/Getty Images(BATH, U.K.) — With just weeks to go before their wedding, Prince Harry and Meghan Markle stepped out in Bath, England, Friday, to support a cause very close to Harry’s heart. Harry, 33, and Markle, 36, attended the U.K. team trials Read More
iStock/Thinkstock(DAMASCUS, Syria) — Exactly one year ago, on April 6, 2017, between 8:40 and 8:50 p.m. EST, 59 U.S. Tomahawk missiles rained down on a Syrian airbase. The missiles — launched from U.S. Navy destroyers in the Mediterranean Sea — were the Read More
iStock/Thinkstock(TOKYO) — Mount Shinmoedake, featured in the 1967 James Bond film “You Only Live Twice,” put on a show Thursday morning when cameras caught not only the volcano erupting but lightning above it. The volcano, which is located between Read More
iStock/Thinkstock(BEIJING, China) — China has formally filed a complaint against planned U.S. tariffs on Chinese goods, the World Trade Organization said today. China “requested consultations” over the Trump administration’s plans to impose Read More
Hollie Kenney(DODOMA, Tanzania) — A 7-year-old girl who climbed Mount Kilimanjaro to honor her late dad made history as the youngest girl to climb all 19,341 feet, according to a website that tracks records on the famous mountain. Montannah Kenney, 7, of Austin, Read More
Courtesy Sharp Family(TULUM, Mexico) — Mexican police told a newspaper this week that a rusty water heater emitted the gas that killed an Iowa family in Mexico last month, but a state attorney’s office pushed back that the cause had not been definitively Read More
iStock/Thinkstock(DJIBOUTI CITY, Djibouti) — The U.S. military has canceled the rest of the ongoing “Alligator Dagger” exercise in Djibouti at the request of that country’s government following two back-to-back aviation accidents on Tuesday Read More
Mikhail Svetlov/Getty Images(VIENNA) — Austria’s new coalition government, consisting of the far-right Freedom party (FPÖ) and center-right Austrian People’s Party (ÖVP), pledged Wednesday to create a draft law that would ban young Muslim girls Read More
Justin Sullivan/Getty Images(CANBERRA, Australia) — Australia has opened a formal investigation into Facebook amid allegations Australian user’s data was improperly shared with Cambridge Analytica, the country’s privacy commissioner said Read More
