fulyaatalay/iStock Editorial/Thinkstock(ISTANBUL) — Turkish officials announced on Wednesday that more than two dozen activists who were arrested in connection with mass demonstrations were acquitted. The 26 union leaders and heads of other action groups were Read More
Japanese Military Cute Video(TOKYO) — Post-World War II Japan has been known as a pacifist nation and is constitutionally barred from engaging in war as a means to settle international disputes. However, loose interpretation of the pacifist constitution — as Read More
Buddhika Weerasinghe/Getty Images(SANKHU, Nepal) — Block after block of beautiful old homes, some over 100 years old, now lay in ruin. Around 100 residents died in Saturday’s 7.8-magnitude earthquake and rescuers have all but given up hope of finding anyone Read More
iStock/Thinkstock(CAMBRIDGE, Mass.) — Young people today support going to war with ISIS, along with the rest of the country, a new poll found. Fifty-seven percent of 18-to-29-year-olds said they supported “the United States sending ground troops to participate Read More
Wavebreak Media/Thinkstock(PARIS) — Luz, the lead Charlie Hebdo cartoonist, told a French magazine he is “no longer interested” in drawing the Prophet Muhammad. In an interview with Les Inrockuptibles Tuesday, Luz said he’s “grown bored with Read More
Buda Mendes/Getty Images(VATICAN CITY) — It’s a “pure scandal” that women often receive lower pay than men for doing the same job, according to Pope Francis. The pope made those remarks during his weekly audience in St. Peter’s Square Read More
NASA(NEW YORK) — What was supposed to be a six-hour journey to the International Space Station to deliver supplies has turned into a high stakes space drama. One day after the Progress spacecraft was launched on the back of a Soyuz rocket bound for the International Read More
Anna Kunst/AmaZing Venues(NEW YORK) — The name — No Man’s Fort — certainly isn’t welcoming. But the just-opened hotel on a man-made island in the middle of the Solent River is taking guest reservations. Located on the river that Read More
iStock/Thinkstock(KATHMANDU) — Hundreds of Americans remain unaccounted for after Saturday’s earthquake in Nepal, the U.S. Embassy in Kathmandu told ABC News. The embassy has received more than 1,000 inquiries about Americans in the country and has accounted Read More
AFP PHOTO / Nicolas ASFOURI (Photo credit should read NICOLAS ASFOURI/AFP/Getty Images(KATHMANDU, Nepal) — Time is running out for those still buried under the rubble of last Saturday’s 7.8-magnitude earthquake in Nepal with the death toll figure now over Read More
