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Geraint Rowland Photography/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- A newly discovered 10-foot-tall silver monolith on a muddy bluff in Wales has reignited wild speculation on its origin after similar obelisks appe...

ABC NewsMore than 30 U.S. citizens were returned to the United States from Haiti on a flight chartered by the U.S. State Department Sunday, a department spokesperson said.One day after the State Depar...

ABC NewsVladimir Putin has thanked the Russian citizens after early election results showed him winning his country's presidency in a landslide.In his victory speech, delivered after results showed hi...

Department of Civil Protection and Emergency ManagementA volcano on Iceland's southwestern coast erupted on Saturday for the fourth time since December, prompting an evacuation, officials said.The eru...

pawel.gaul/Getty Images(GAZA) -- The Israel Defense Forces denied accusations that its troops opened fire on a group of Gazan civilians who were waiting for aid Thursday.At least 20 people were killed...

In this pool photograph distributed by Russia's state agency Sputnik, Russian President Vladimir Putin gives an interview to TV host and Director General of Rossiya Segodnya (RIA Novosti) news agency ...

pawel.gaul/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- A senior Israeli official says the United States has begun slow-walking some military aid to Israel -- an assertion senior U.S. officials denied was the case, in...

NASA(LONDON) -- At least two people have been killed and thousands have been displaced as Tropical Storm Filipo made landfall in Mozambique, the country's National Institute for Disaster Management sa...

pawel.gaul/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Five Palestinians were killed on Wednesday at the U.N. aid distribution center in Rafah, the southern Gaza city bordering Egypt, the Hamas-run Gaza Ministry of Hea...

Burghley House(LONDON) -- A mysterious 1,800-year-old Roman statue has been discovered by a construction worker while he was digging up a parking lot.It was during work on an overflow parking area at ...