Russian Foreign Ministry(MOSCOW) — A speeding hearse pulled over by Russian police was found with more than half-a-ton of illegal black caviar stashed in the coffin it was carrying. The hearse was stopped Monday night on a highway near Khabarovsk, a city close to Read More
Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) — U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter has laid out changes to the Obama administration’s anti-ISIS strategy that will lead to more airstrikes and special operations raids against ISIS, saying they will “gather Read More
JPL-Caltech/NASA(NEW YORK) — NASA’s hugely successful Cassini space probe is set to get up close with a plume from an alien ocean on Saturn’s moon Enceladus. The flyby — which will happen on Wednesday — is significant because NASA said the Read More
Mark Cuthbert/UK Press via Getty Images(LONDON) — Daniel Craig, accompanied by the latest James Bond girls, looked dashing for the world premiere of Spectre, the 24th film in the Bond series. But while the night may have belonged to Craig, it was Prince William, Read More
iStock/Thinkstock(LONDON) — In 1515, a British man by the name of Richard Balson started selling meat in the seaside village of Bridport, in Dorset, England. Five hundred years later, Balson’s butcher shop is still serving customers, making RJ Balson & Son Read More
iStock/Thinkstock(MIAMI) — As a little girl, Kim Phuc loved to climb up trees. After the South Vietnamese military dropped napalm on her village, Trang Bang, on June 8, 1972, Phuc’s skin was partly destroyed and she was no longer able to play many of her Read More
U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Declan Barnes/Released(WASHINGTON) — A U.S. Navy destroyer has sailed within 12 miles of an artificial island that China built in the disputed Spratly Islands in the South China Sea. The transit by the USS Read More
iStock/Thinkstock(VICTORIA, Canada) — A volunteer mariner recalled rescuing more than a dozen survivors of a whale watching boat that sank off the coast of British Columbia, including two women sharing a life jacket and several people clinging to nearby rocks. Ken Read More
iStock/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) — The eastern sky plays host this week to a cosmic show that hasn’t been seen in two years and won’t be seen again for another five years. Stargazers can catch Venus, Jupiter and Mars in what is called a planetary trio — Read More
Dan Kitwood/Getty Images(JOHANNESBURG) — A mechanical failure aboard a British Airways flight in Johannesburg Monday left a runway closed after the plane tipped to its side. Flight BA6234 from Port Elizabeth, South Africa, operated by Comair Ltd., was landing Read More
