Beth Sanden(NEW YORK) — A partially disabled woman is celebrating an amazing achievement after completing marathons on all seven continents. Beth Sanden finished her most recent race less than a week ago in the frozen continent of Antarctica, slogging through ice, Read More
RudolfT/iStock/Thinkstock(VATICAN CITY) — A rare honor has been bestowed to a homeless man after his death. Pope Francis has allowed a homeless man who died to be given the rare honor of being buried in the Vatican cemetery. The 80-year-old homeless Dutch man, Read More
ESA/NASA(MOSCOW) — Roscosmos, the Russian space agency, announced on Wednesday that it will end its cooperation on the International Space Station in 2024, and then build its own outpost. The agency had worked with the United States, Europe, and Japan on the space Read More
File photo. Hemera/Thinkstock(KABUL, Afghanistan) — At least 100 people were killed in a series of avalanches Wednesday in central Afghanistan. Abdul Rahman Kabiri, governer of the central Panjshir province, told ABC News the avalanches were caused by heavy Read More
File photo. Hemera/Thinkstock(TEHRAN, Iran) — The Iranian Revolutionary Guard conducted large-scale naval drills on Wednesday near the entrance to the Persian Gulf. A replica of a U.S. aircraft carrier was damaged by speedboats during the drills, which were Read More
ABC News(NEW YORK) — A 26-year-old Canadian teacher says he used a plastic snow shovel and hockey stick to carve a roughly 6-foot-tall, 25-foot-deep tunnel of snow from his house to his and his fiance’s cars. Marcel Landry, of Summerside in Prince Edward Read More
S. Alemdar/Getty Images for Maybelline(ISTANBUL) — A Turkish beauty queen could face time behind bars for allegedly insulting the president on social media. The lawyer for the former Miss Turkey says a prosecutor wants her brought up on charges of insulting a public Read More
iStock/Thinkstock(PARIS) — Paris officials are investigating a rash of mysterious drones that have appeared over the city’s landmarks, including the U.S. Embassy, Eiffel Tower and The Bastille. The most recent drone appearance happened Tuesday night, with Read More
NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS(NEW YORK) — NASA’s Curiosity Mars Rover has snapped a selfie on the red planet showing off the terrain where it has been working for the past five months. Dozens of images taken from the rover’s robotic arm were woven together to Read More
dk_photos/iStock/Thinkstock(BUDAPEST, Hungary) — A Hungarian mayor told ABC News that he has decided to rent out his entire village in a move aimed a bolstering the town’s revenues. And there’s even a bonus. Along with seven “fully renovated and Read More
