Amanda Lucidon/The White House(LONDON) — First lady Michelle Obama came bearing gifts during her recent trip to London. The U.S. embassy in London has confirmed that America’s first lady gifted Britain’s royal family with American-made items for two of Read More
iStock/Thinkstock(MOSCOW) — Is a cold war brewing over the moon? The head of Russia’s equivalent of the FBI has suggested there ought to be an international investigation into the Apollo moon landings, seeming to imply they might have been faked. Vladimir Read More
iStock Editorial/Thinkstock(PARIS) — Everyone should stop eating Nutella, French Environment Minister Ségolène Royal says. “It’s palm oil,” she said Monday night on French TV network Canal+. “Palm oil destroys trees and makes Read More
iStock/Thinkstock(MOSCOW) — A man has been killed by a white tiger that had escaped from Tbilisi’s zoo during devastating floods in the Georgian capital, less than a day after zoo officials said all the animals roaming the city been captured. The tiger had Read More
Ben Beaden/Australia Zoo(BEERWAH, Australia) — The Australian koala duo, Phantom and Lizzy, — who took the Internet by storm last week — are getting healthier and stronger every day at the Australia Zoo Wildlife Hospital, according to their Facebook Read More
Photo by Buda Mendes/Getty Images(VATICAN CITY) — Pope Francis has taken a clear and strong position on climate change, advocating for action in a leaked document on the environment released Monday by the weekly Italian magazine L’Espresso. Francis has backed Read More
Purestock/Thinkstock(WASHINGTON) — With the White House confirmation of his death, Nasir al-Wahishi has now become the biggest al Qaeda target to fall to the U.S. since Navy SEALs killed Osama bin Laden in May 2011 – not for just who the terror leader was Read More
Photo by Graham Denholm/Getty Images(SYDNEY) — Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott defended his policies on asylum seekers amid allegations that his government paid “people smugglers” to turn a refugees’ boat back to Indonesia. “We’ve Read More
Ingram Publishing/Thinkstock (CHICAGO) — If intelligent life forms exist beyond Earth, they likely know we’re here, a NASA official said Tuesday at the Astrobiology Science Conference in Chicago. “We put atmospheric signatures that guarantee someone with Read More
iStock/Thinkstock(ISTANBUL) — The Kurds say they have captured Tal Abayad, a strategic town once controlled by the extremist group on the road leading to the Islamic State’s de facto capital Raqqa. Meanwhile, Turkey has become flooded with refugees as the mass Read More
