Category Archives: World News – ABC Audio

Said Echarif/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images(MARAKECH, Morocco) -- The death toll has continued to climb in the wake of the rare and powerful 6.8-magnitude earthquake that struck Morocco Friday night....

Elmurod Usubaliev/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- An experienced American caver and researcher who fell ill more than 3,000 feet below the entrance of a cave in Turkey has recovered suffi...

Charly Triballeau/AFP via Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Japan launched a rocket to the moon Wednesday in an attempt to become the fifth country to land on the lunar surface, according to the Japan Aerospa...

omersukrugoksu/Getty Images(LONDON) -- Archaeologists have discovered a 1,000-year-old mummy -- believed to be of an adult individual -- in Peru’s capital, Lima. The mummy, which was discovered ...

Malkolm M./Afrikimages Agency/Universal Images Group via Getty Images(LONDON) -- Gabon's ousted President Ali Bongo Ondimba has been released from house arrest a week after a group of mutinous soldier...

ABC News(KYIV, Ukraine) -- Ukrainian first lady Olena Zelenska is "afraid" the world's attention is turning away from the war, more than 18 months since Russia launched a full-scale invasion of her co...

SimpleImages/Getty Images(LONDON) -- The hottest three months on record have just been recorded on Earth, according to the Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S). The European-Union funded agency sai...

Australian Maritime Safety Authority(NEW YORK) -- Three people were rescued from the Coral Sea after "multiple shark attacks" damaged their catamaran. Following an alert from a Russian-registered emer...

Gregory Sweeney/Getty Images(LONDON) -- South African Conservation Group African Parks has announced it is set to release 2,000 southern white rhinos into the wild in what is set to be one of Africa&r...

NASA(NEW YORK) -- Five asteroids will fly past Earth beginning Wednesday, but aren't expected to threaten the planet, NASA said. Between Sept. 6 and Sept. 12, one asteroid the size of a house, three t...