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New Zealand volcano death toll climbs to 16 as divers search for more bodies

Monday, December 16 by ABC News

dan_prat/iStock(LONDON) -- Another person has died from their injuries in the deadly volcanic eruption on New Zealand's White Island, bringing the confirmed fatalities to 16, authorities announced Sunday.The bodies of two people are still unaccounted for and divers have... Read More.

Millions of dollars of jewelry stolen from home of British billionaire heiress

Monday, December 16 by ABC News

Andrius Kaziliunas/iStock(LONDON) -- Jewelry believed to be worth tens of millions of dollars has been stolen from the house of British billionaire heiress Tamara Eccleston in London after she left the home for the Christmas holidays.Ecclestone, 35, the daughter... Read More.

New Zealand volcano death toll climbs to 15, as divers search for more bodies

Saturday, December 14 by ABC News

dan_prat/iStock(WHAKATANE, New Zealand) -- Another person has died from their injuries in the deadly volcanic eruption on New Zealand's White Island, bringing the confirmed fatalities to 15, police said Saturday.The bodies of two people are still unaccounted and divers... Read More.

Iraqi protesters lynch teenager, string up his corpse

Friday, December 13 by ABC News

CT757fan/iStock(LONDON) -- An angry crowd of protesters killed a teenager and strung up his corpse in the streets of Iraq's capital on Thursday amid the ongoing anti-government demonstrations, Iraqi officials said.The brutal killing in Baghdad apparently stems from a... Read More.

Lawyers’ attack on hospital in Pakistan leaves 3 dead

Friday, December 13 by ABC News

iStock(LAHORE, Pakistan) -- Dozens of lawyers attacked the Punjab Institute of Cardiology in Pakistan in an escalation of a feud that started last month in a dispute over the care of a lawyer's relative.Three patients died during Wednesday’s incident... Read More.

$66 million Klimt painting stolen 20 years ago may have been found

Friday, December 13 by ABC News

DeAgostini/Getty Images(ROME) -- The "Portrait of a Lady," a painting by Austrian painter Gustav Klimt now valued at $66 million, was stolen from a gallery in northern Italy more than 20 years ago.But it may have just been found... Read More.

‘Starry night’ toad rediscovered in Colombia after nearly three decades

Friday, December 13 by ABC News

Global Wildlife Conservation(NEW YORK) -- Biologists have rediscovered the "starry night" harlequin toad in Colombia for the first time in nearly three decades after the species was largely wiped out by a deadly fungal pathogen.The toad, characterized by its... Read More.

Debris from missing Chilean Air Force plane may have been found, officials say

Friday, December 13 by ABC News

StanRohrer/iStock(LONDON) -- Chile's air force said it has located debris at sea believed to be from its cargo plane that vanished this week with 38 people aboard.The Chilean-flagged vessel Antarctic Endeavour found the debris on Wednesday in the treacherous,... Read More.

Archaeologists discover oldest cave painting to tell a story

Friday, December 13 by ABC News

DanielBendjy/iStock(NEW YORK) -- Archaeologists have discovered what they say is the earliest figurative painting known to man, in a cave in Indonesia.It depicts an intricate hunting scene, scholars believe, in which eight small, human-like figures pursue an anoa, a... Read More.

Conservatives win landslide majority in UK election

Friday, December 13 by ABC News

Ramberg/iStock(LONDON) -- Boris Johnson's Conservative Party has won a huge victory in U.K.'s closely watched general election.Britain went to the polls for the third time in five years Thursday to determine who the public wants to resolve the stalemate... Read More.

China, Turkey top annual list of world’s worst jailers of journalists: Watchdog

Thursday, December 12 by ABC News

iStock(LONDON) -- China and Turkey were the world’s most prolific jailers of journalists in 2019, according to a special report released by the press freedom watchdog Committee to Protect Journalists this week.The report, described as “a snapshot of those... Read More.

Senate recognizes Armenian genocide over Trump White House opposition

Thursday, December 12 by ABC News

iStock(WASHINGTON) -- In a historic vote, the U.S. Senate passed a resolution to recognize as genocide the mass killings of Armenians by Ottoman-era Turkey a century ago, overcoming weeks of active opposition from President Donald Trump's White House as... Read More.

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