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In ocean expeditions between 2008 and 2017, researchers explored the ‘cryptic’ biodiversity of Antarctica, discovering a ‘strawberry feather star’.

China makes up 18.47% of the world population, but how many people do they have, and are they on the decline? Find out more.

Six Colombian nationals were arrested as suspects in the assassination of anti-corruption Ecuadorian presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio.

Queensland Police said skeletal remains buried in the wall of a Brisbane apartment belong to Tanya Lee Glover, likely slain about 12 years ago.

Hundreds of volunteers gather to participate in the annual Plastic Cup competition to clean the Tisza River in Hungary, the second largest river in the country.

On Aug. 9, 1945, a U.S. bomber dropped an atomic weapon on Nagasaki, killing 70,000 people and ultimately leading to the end of World War II.

Nurse Alix Dorsainvil and her young child were freed after being kidnapped in Haiti roughly two weeks ago. The kidnapping drew attention to the gang violence and chaos in the country.

Firefighters were searching for two more people after the early-morning fire at a private accommodation in Wintzenheim in northeastern France.

Police are investigating a suspected mushroom poisoning after three relatives died after a meal at their daughter-in-law’s home in Australia.

Four people were rescued in the Straits of Sicily after a migrant boat capsized off the coast of Tunisia, Italian state television reported.