Patrick Reevell/ABC News(NEW YORK) — The landscape approaching Russia’s spaceport in Baikonur is otherworldly. The yellow steppe of southern Kazakhstan where it is located is effectively desert, unbroken flatlands for hundreds of miles covered by a layer of Read More
omersukrugoksu/iStock(ROME) — Six people are dead and at least 120 people are injured after being trampled by a panicked crowd running out of an Italian disco. The stampede occurred at the Lanterna Azzurra in Madonna del Piano di Corinaldo, near Ancona — a Read More
piola666/iStock(NEW YORK) — A British sailor was rescued by a cargo ship on Friday, two days after an incident left her stranded in the Pacific Ocean. Susie Goodall, 29, was competing in the Golden Globe competition — a solo round-the-world race when her ships Read More
ChiccoDodiFC/iStock(NEW YORK) — The second-largest, second-deadliest Ebola outbreak in history has spread to a major city. Butembo, a bustling city of almost a million people in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, is reporting an increasing number of cases of Read More
Photo by Chris McGrath/Getty Images(PARIS) — Protesters took to the streets of Paris for a third weekend of violence and looting despite French President Emmanuel Macron backing down on the fuel tax hike that sparked the movement in the first place. Seemingly hoping Read More
NASA/Bill Ingalls/Getty Images(NEW YORK) — Almost two months after NASA astronaut Nick Hague and his Russian counterpart Alexei Ovchinin survived a failed launch from Kazakhstan to the International Space Station, Hague told ABC News’ David Kerley Friday he is Read More
Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech (NEW YORK) — NASA’s InSight lander, which landed on Mars just over one week ago, has transmitted back to Earth audio of the Martian winds, the first time humans have heard these “sounds.” On December 1, sensors on the Read More
Mustafa Yalcin/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images(PARIS) — Some of the most famous tourist sites in Paris plan to close on Saturday as the French capital braces for a violent day of protest for the third consecutive weekend. The Eiffel Tower announced on its Twitter Read More
TIZIANA FABI/AFP/Getty Images(ROME) — The Vatican unveiled its novel Nativity scene for Christmas in St. Peter’s Square Friday afternoon — sculpted completely out of sand for the first time. The traditional scene depicting Joseph, Mary and the infant Read More
omersukrugoksu/iStock(MANILA, Philippines) — An American priest has been arrested after being accused of sexually abusing multiple young boys while he was doing missionary work in the Philippines. Now, U.S. authorities are calling for the public’s help in Read More
