Bernhard Richter/iStock/Thinkstock(VICTORIA, Australia) — Police in Australia say they have arrested a teenager on terror charges after halting a plot to detonate three homemade bombs. A house in Greenvale, Australia, a suburb of Melbourne, was raided on Friday. In Read More
lculig/iStock/Thinkstock(WASHINGTON) — The U.S. Department of Defense says that China has reclaimed at least 500 acres of land in the Spratly Islands in the South China Sea, possibly in an effort to turn them into naval outposts. The Pentagon on Friday released its Read More
iStock/Thinkstock(ISLAMABAD, Pakistan) — A military helicopter crash in Pakistan has killed the Norwegian and Phillipines ambassadors, a military official told ABC News Friday. The helicopter crashed near a ski resort, where an event had been organized. In addition Read More
Dan Kitwood/Getty Images(LONDON) — David Cameron will return for a second term as prime minister after a large Conservative Party victory in the British general election. Pre-election opinion polls predicted a close race between the Labour and Conservative parties, Read More
iStock/Thinkstock(MADRID) — Spanish police found a 8-year-old boy hidden inside a small suitcase by a 19-year-old woman who had allegedly tried to smuggle him into Spain on Thursday, authorities told ABC News. The little boy, identified only as Abou, was born in Read More
ABC/Rick Rowell(CARMARTHENSHIRE, Wales) — Idris Elba just broke an 88-year-old U.K. speed record by driving 180 mph in his Bentley Continental. The Avengers actor, 42, crushed the old record, set by Malcolm Campbell in 1927 at 174 mph. Elba’s average over the Read More
Forca Aerea Portuguesa(LISBON, Portugal) — The Portuguese Air Force had to rescue vacationers who were stuck amid 33-foot high waves in the mid-Atlantic on Thursday. The rough seas off the Azores Islands killed one person, a young girl, while 12 others survived. The Read More
NASA/ESA(NEW YORK) — Russia’s Progress spacecraft burned up when entering Earth’s atmosphere and plunged into the middle of the Pacific Ocean, 10 days after a series of system failures sent it on an uncontrolled spin through space. Progress reentered the Read More
iStock/Thinkstock(WASHINGTON) — A senior commander of al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula who claimed publicly that his group was behind the deadly attack on Charlie Hebdo‘s office in Paris has been killed by a U.S. drone strike in Yemen. The news of Nasser bin Read More
iStock/Thinkstock(GLASGOW, Scotland) — While The Jetsons’ robot maid Rosie may be a quite a long ways off, researchers in Glasgow, Scotland, have gotten mankind at least one step closer with a robot that can sort and fold laundry. According to the U.K. Read More
