iStock/Thinkstock(NASSAU, Bahamas) — Five people who were aboard a downed aircraft were found safe, floating on a life raft off of the Bahamas, U.S. Coast Guard crews confirmed. The life raft was found at about 10:20 p.m. Monday, about nine miles southeast of Read More
NASA/JPL-Caltech(KAUAI, Hawaii) — A flying saucer could one day help a manned mission to Mars make a smooth landing on the surface of the red planet. NASA’s Low-Density Supersonic Decelerator, which resembles a flying saucer, lifted off from Kauai, Hawaii Read More
homydesign/iStock/Thinkstock(BEIJING) — A new weapon is starting to be rolled out in Chinese schools to combat cheating on high-stakes college entrance exams. At two testing centers in central China, a new contraption flying overhead is being employed to scan for Read More
Christian Müller/iStock/Thinkstock(BRUSSELS) — Belgian police arrested 16 people on Monday in twin terrorism-related investigations, the federal prosecutor’s office confirmed to ABC News in a statement. The two groups, Chechen extremists and Salafists, Read More
Medioimages/Photodisc/iStock/Thinkstock(JERUSALEM) — It pays to make peace, according to a new economic study on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict released by the RAND Corporation on Monday. The California nonprofit think tank concluded that implementing a two-state Read More
artisteer/iStock/Thinkstock(KARST, Germany) — A German gardener is a new Guinness World Record holder after growing a 30-foot, 1-inch tall sunflower. Hans-Peter Schiffer, of Karst, Germany, broke his own three previous world’s tallest sunflower records with Read More
Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images(SEOUL, South Korea) — A South Korean robot smashed through a series of disaster relief tasks faster than competitors, winning its team a $2 million prize at the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Robotics Read More
iStock/Thinkstock(SYDNEY) — An Australian man is accused of allegedly stealing a bulldozer to attack a family that he had been ordered to stay away from, witnesses said. “Investigators have been told a 48-year-old man allegedly drove a bulldozer over the top Read More
Fuse/Thinkstock(ROME) — A tense political standoff is brewing in Italy over what to do with the thousands of migrants arriving on the country’s shores. So far this year, 50,000 people have been pulled from overcrowded boats in the Mediterranean Sea — Read More
Cylonphoto/iStock/Thinkstock(TOKYO) — A magnitude 6.2 earthquake struck of the eastern coast of northern Japan early Monday. According to the U.S. Geological Survey, the quake struck at 2:01 a.m. ET, and was located around 27.5 miles below ground. Despite the Read More
