eatologo/iStockBy JULIA JACOBO, ABC News (NEW YORK) — Stargazers are prepping to head outside to watch the best meteor shower of 2020 brighten the sky. The Geminid meteor shower, which is typically active every year between Dec. 4 and Dec. 17, is expected to climax Read More
Tommy Walker/NurPhoto via Getty ImagesBy BRITT CLENNETT and KARSON YIU, ABC News (HONG KONG) — Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai has been charged under the city’s controversial national security law, accused of colluding with foreign forces, as a crackdown on Read More
Photoservice/iStockBy JULIA JACOBO, ABC News (NEW YORK) — An update to the International Union for Conservation of Nature’s Red List of Threatened Species has declared 31 animal and plant species extinct. That total includes the lost shark, listed as Read More
nevodka/iStockBy ERIN SCHUMAKER, ABC News (NEW YORK) — While rich countries have purchased enough coronavirus vaccine doses to inoculate their populations three times over next year, 90% of people in poor countries won’t be able to get the vaccine in 2021, Read More
Goldcastle7/iStockBy HAKYUNG KATE LEE, ABC News (SEOUL, South Korea) — Contact tracers in South Korea are working around the clock to do anything they can to mitigate the spread of COVID-19. From being on the phone all day to questioning COVID-19 patients about the Read More
Pool/Samir Hussein/WireImageBy KATIE KINDELAN, ABC News (LONDON) — Members of Britain’s royal family, including Queen Elizabeth, Prince Charles and Prince William, appeared together in public Tuesday for the first time since the start of the coronavirus Read More
MarsBars/iStockBy GUY DAVIES, ABC News (LONDON) — The U.K. has become the first western country to begin a mass vaccination program against the novel coronavirus on Tuesday as hospitals around the country take part in “the biggest immunization program in Read More
DANNY LAWSON/POOL/AFP via Getty ImagesBy ANGELINE JANE BERNABE, ABC News (LONDON) — Prince William and Kate, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, made their first stop Monday in their three-day train tour to pay tribute to front-line workers amid the coronavirus Read More
Paula Lobo/ABCBy KATE HODGSON and JESSICA MENDOZA, ABC News (NEW YORK) — Amanda Knox is speaking out after the man convicted in the 2007 assault and rape of Knox’s former roommate, British exchange student Meredith Kercher, was set free from prison. Rudy Read More
MATT DUNHAM/POOL/AFP via Getty ImagesBy ANGELINE JANE BERNABE, ABC News (LONDON) — Prince William and Kate, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, embarked on a tour aboard the Royal Train on Sunday to pay tribute to front line workers, teachers and more who “have Read More
