ABC News(LONDON) — A biscuit that survived the sinking of the Titanic has been purchased by a collector in Greece for $23,000, according to the BBC. The biscuit, similar in shape and color to a cracker, was part of a collection from James and Mabel Fenwick, Read More
iStock Editorial/Thinkstock(ROME) — Catholic leaders from five continents have signed a bold appeal calling for a fair, legally binding and truly transformational climate agreement. The appeal comes a month ahead of a United Nations climate change conference in Read More
Photodisc/Thinkstock(BRUSSELS) — A masked man was arrested in Belgium after trying to ram a car, possibly carrying explosives, into the front gate of a military base in Naumur, south of Brussels. Authorities declined to respond to questions from ABC News but Belgian Read More
Hemera/Thinkstock(KABUL, Afghanistan) — A long, sustained earthquake shook northern Afghanistan, Pakistan and parts of India Monday morning. The quake had a magnitude of 7.5 and was 132 miles deep, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. Its center was 30 miles Read More
iStock/Thinkstock(VICTORIA, Canada) — A search was launched on Sunday after a tour boat with 27 people on board sank off the coast of British Columbia, Canadian officials said. The boat, reportedly a whale watching tour boat, sank off Tofino, British Columbia, Read More
VOLODYMYR SHUVAYEV/AFP/Getty Images(KIEV, Ukraine) — A Ukrainian based artist claims he has created the world’s first monument to Darth Vader, after transforming an Odessa statue of Vladimir Lenin into an effigy of the “Star Wars” icon. The artist Read More
iStock/Thinkstock(JERUSALEM) — The Israeli military announced Sunday morning that a 23-year-old Arab Israeli paraglided over the border into Syria Saturday night in an apparent bid to join the civil war. Initially it was thought a paraglider had accidentally been Read More
ABC News(NEW YORK) — President Obama recently announced the U.S. will keep 9,800 troops in Afghanistan through 2016 and 5,500 in 2017 in a “train and assist” role. But, the death of an American soldier on just such a mission in Iraq last week proves that Read More
MichaelStubblefield/iStock/ThinkStock(NEW YORK) — For the first time in history, researchers in Japan have captured three young giant squid. All three were caught off the southwestern coast of Japan in 2013 and are genetically identical to their gigantic Read More
MatthewBrosseau/iStock/ThinkStock(NEW YORK) — South Korea has fired shots at a North Korean boat. Five shots were fired when the boat strayed into de facto South Korean waters, reports the BBC. North Korea disputes the border in the Yellow Sea. Last year, Read More
