MARIO LAPORTA/AFP/Getty Images(NEW YORK) — A perfectly preserved tomb dating back 2,400 years was uncovered by archaeologists at the site of the ancient city of Pompeii. The historic Italian site was drowned with debris when Mount Vesuvius erupted in 79 A.D., Read More
Raghu Ramaswamy/iStock Editorial/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) — The FBI has arrested a politically prominent Chinese millionaire, the alleged secret source of foreign money in a campaign finance scandal during the Clinton administration, on charges he lied about why he Read More
Marcio Silva/iStock/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) — A group of United Nations experts on human rights are calling on the government of Saudi Arabia to halt the pending execution of a teenager for a crime he may have committed as a child. According to the Office of the High Read More
Yemeni Houthi rebels check the Balili mosque in the capital Sanaa, following an explosion on September 24, 2015 on the first day of Eid al-Adha, the Feast of the Sacrifice. MOHAMMED HUWAIS/AFP/Getty Images(SANA’A, Yemen) — A suicide attack on a Yemen mosque Read More
Saudi ambulances arrive with pilgrims who were injured in a stampede at an emergency hospital in Mina, near the holy city of Mecca, on the first day of Eid al-Adha on September 24, 2015. MOHAMMED AL-SHAIKH/AFP/Getty Images(MINA, Saudi Arabia) — More than 400 people Read More
PaulGrecaud/iStock/ThinkStock(NEW YORK) — As a way to ease the flow of migrants into Europe, leaders of the EU have pledged an additional one billion euros to help United Nations agencies assisting Syrians, says the BBC. The pledge comes just a day after EU leaders Read More
Mondadori Portfolio via Getty Images(MOSCOW) — Russia has exhumed the remains of the late Tsar Nicholas II Romanov and his wife to re-examine the murder of the family, according to the BBC. The Romanov family, Tsar Nicholas II, his wife Alexandra, their four Read More
kylieellway/iStock/ThinkStock(HAVANA) — The Colombian government and members of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) have reached a peace agreement. Just one day after Pope Francis left Cuba, Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos was in Havana, Cuba on Read More
DanHenson1/iStock/Thinkstock(CAIRO) — Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El Sisi issued a presidential decree pardoning 100 individuals who had received court sentences, including a pair of journalists with ties to Al-Jazeera. Mohamed Fahmy and Baher Mohamed, convicted Read More
Jeff Vinnick/Getty Images(NEW YORK) — A supermoon lunar eclipse will take center stage in the sky this weekend marking the first time the spectacle has been seen since 1982. The cosmic event will take place on the night of Sept. 27 when two periodic events — Read More
