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Max Mumby/Indigo/Getty Images(LONDON) -- The royal family sent birthday wishes to Meghan, the duchess of Sussex, on Thursday. Prince William and Kate, the duke and duchess of Cambridge, and Prince Cha...

Stephen Frink/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- The species scientists know least about are at an even higher risk of extinction because researchers are unable to tailor conservation efforts to their needs, a...

IntelCenter/AFP via Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- The drone strike that killed al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri is a double-edged sword for President Joe Biden, both bolstering his claim that counterterr...

Young-Ho Lee / Sipa/ Pool/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images(SEOUL, South Korea) -- U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi met with her South Korean counterpart and other political leaders in...

JEREMIE RICHARD/AFP via Getty Images(REYKJAVIK, Iceland) -- An Icelandic volcano has come back to life after a series of nearby earthquakes rumbled it awake, the Icelandic Met Office reported Wednesda...

Debarchan Chatterjee/NurPhoto via Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Risk management strategies for floods and drought may not reduce the effects of unprecedented extreme weather events as they become more fre...

ATTA KENARE/AFP via Getty Images(LONDON) -- When Sepideh Rashno appeared last month on Iranian state television to apologize to another woman for refusing to wear a hijab in pubic, longtime observers ...

Handout/Getty Images(TAIPEI, Taiwan) -- Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi said Wednesday that she and other members of a congressional delegation "came to Taiwan to make unequi...

Courtesy Carol Barnes(WASHINGTON) -- More than six months after Texas father David Barnes was arrested by Russian authorities, his family is calling on officials in Washington to do more to try to fac...

Australian Government Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry(LONDON) -- A passenger flying from Bali, Indonesia, to Darwin, Australia, was fined 2,664 Australian dollars (about $1,846 U.S.)...