Fuse/iStock/ThinkStock(ROME, Italy) — The coffins of 40 people who died on Saturday at sea are set to arrive in southern Italy for burial. Southern coast rescuers intercepted a small fishing vessel crammed with more than 300 people on top late Saturday afternoon. Read More
zimmytws/iStock/ThinkStock(NEW YORK) — A plane with 54 people on board is missing over the Indonesian province of Papua. The plane was traveling from Jayapura to Oksibil but the plane lost contact with ground control on Sunday. Indonesia’s national agency for Read More
goralikus/iStock/Thinkstock(WASHINGTON) — United States officials called the latest threats from North Korea “par for the course” on Saturday. In a statement, Department of Defense spokesman Capt. Jeff Davis made clear that U.S.-South Korean military Read More
tcly/iStock/Thinkstock(ROME) — Dozens of migrants died in an overcrowded boat in the Mediterranean Sea, the Italian navy says. Reports have shown rapidly rising rates of migrant deaths attempting to cross into Europe, but many of those have come when overcrowded Read More
iStock/Thinkstock(WASHINGTON) — A U.S. official says the U.S. has concluded that ISIS used mustard agent in northeastern Syria two weeks ago. This is a separate incident from the two in Iraq this week where the U.S. had determined a blistering agent was used by ISIS Read More
iStock/Thinkstock(WASHINGTON) — Over the past three years more than 13,000 Afghan soldiers and policemen have been killed fighting the Taliban. That staggering statistic will likely continue to rise as the 4,302 Afghan security personnel killed and 8,009 wounded so Read More
Mary Turner – WPA Pool/Getty Images(LONDON) — Royal officials Friday alleged that photographers have hidden in cars and fields, used children as bait and monitored the movements of household staff to obtain photos of 2-year-old Prince George. The accusations Read More
Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images(HAVANA) — The three Marines who took down the American flag at the U.S. Embassy in 1961 were on hand in Havana once again on Friday, witnessing three much younger Marines raise the flag there for the first time in 54 years. Retired Read More
versevend/iStock Editorial/Thinkstock(LONDON) — Pilots on a U.S.-bound British Airways flight carrying 221 passengers were forced to don oxygen masks and make an emergency landing at London’s Heathrow Airport after they realized airflow to the cockpit was Read More
iStock/Thinkstock(TORONTO) — More than 150 crocodiles, alligators and caimans were recently rescued from a man in the Toronto-area who had been keeping the reptiles as pets, according to the reptile rescue zoo that took in the animals. The reptiles, which were all Read More
