The bomb was discovered by construction workers in east London just after noon Monday. Photo: British Ministry of Defence(LONDON) — British military personnel and firefighters in London worked overnight into Tuesday morning to stabilize and defuse a bomb dating Read More
Melanie Stetson Freeman/The Christian Science Monitor via Getty Images(RIO DE JANEIRO) — Over a dozen American athletes fell ill after an Olympic trial run in Brazil. Thirteen rowers on the U.S. team came down with a stomach bug at the World Junior Rowing Read More
iStock/Thinkstock(OSLO, Norway) — An AirBaltic flight from from Oslo to Crete was grounded over the weekend after passengers’ complaints to cops led officials to discover that four out of five crew members were drunk. The Norwegian newspaper Dagbladet first Read More
JIJI PRESS/AFP/Getty Images(TOKYO) — Japan’s first nuclear reactor to be restarted since the Fukushima disaster in 2011 was started up under new safety rules on Tuesday. Kyushu Electric Power Company reported the startup of the Sendai Nuclear Power Unit Read More
iStock/Thinkstock(CEIBA, Puerto Rico) — It has been a rough summer for beaches. First, sharks found their way into waters they don’t typically frequent, and now seaweed covering Caribbean beaches? A mass of seaweed washed ashore on the Playa Los Machos beach Read More
Gareth Cattermole/Getty Images(MOSCOW) — Donald Trump speaks his mind with the best of them, but another conservative has done The Donald one better with a history of political incorrectness that has resulted in him and his work being banned from an entire Read More
iStock/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) — Get ready for the annual show in the sky this week when the Perseids meteor shower takes center stage. The meteor shower is expected to reach its peak early Thursday at 4 a.m. ET when as many as 100 meteors per hour will be visible Read More
ABC NewsBy ABC NEWS’ BOB WOODRUFF (BEIJING) — When I lived in China back in 1989 I rarely used the subway system here in Beijing. There were hardly any cars on the streets because no one could afford them other than party-owned taxi companies, party members or Read More
Zoeann Murphy/The Washington Post via Getty Images(TEHRAN, Iran) — American journalist Jason Rezaian appeared in court Monday — possibly for the last time — after being held behind bars for 385 days in Iran. The Washington Post correspondent in Tehran Read More
Berk Ozkan/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images(ISTANBUL) — In one of several attacks in Turkey Monday, gunmen opened fire on the U.S. consulate in Istanbul. No one was injured in the attack, and at least one of the attackers has been captured and identifed as a member of a Read More
