Explore abc7news.com Stories

Recent "National/World" Stories, Video and Galleries

  • Jaely John, 7, a student at Twin Lakes Elementary School in Federal Way, Wash., takes shelter under a table as she takes part in an earthquake drill, Thursday, Oct. 18, 2012.
  • Californians and others in some earthquake prone areas of the world will drop, cover and hold on during an annual preparedness drill.
Tags:
earthquake, national/world
  • Ohio lawmakers are set to consider a bill that would give Ariel Castro's kidnapping victims $25,000 for each year they were held captive.
Tags:
missing person, children, crime, murder, sex crimes, sex offender, national/world
  • A National Transportation Safety Board official says a Spirit Airlines jet bound for Atlanta sustained an engine failure before safely returning to Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport.
Tags:
NTSB, plane crash, national/world
  • Four people are dead and another hospitalized after a boat with more than a dozen people aboard capsized about seven miles east of Miami.
Tags:
national/world
  • Police say they have made two arrests in a bullying case because a 14-year-old girl admitted online to harassing a 12-year-old girl who killed herself in September.
  • Police say they have made two arrests in a bullying case because a 14-year-old girl admitted online to harassing a 12-year-old girl who killed herself in September.
Tags:
children, cyberbullying, child death, crime, national/world
  • A Massachusetts high school senior has lost her volleyball team captaincy and been suspended for five games for what she says was an effort to help a drunken friend.
  • A Massachusetts high school senior has lost her volleyball team captaincy and been suspended for five games for what she says was an effort to help a drunken friend.
Tags:
national/world
  • Panda cub.
  • A female panda cub, born in July, is learning to crawl at the Taipei Zoo.
Tags:
animal, national/world
  • A loophole in the system recently allowed some United Airlines customers to reserve overseas flights for around $50.
Tags:
united airlines, websites, transportation, travel, national/world
  • The death toll from a 7.2-magnitude earthquake that struck the central Philippine island of Bohol on Tuesday rose to 93.
Tags:
philippines, earthquake, national/world
  • Image released of suspect in McCann disappearance
  • Police have released images of a new suspect in the disappearance of British girl Madeleine McCann in Portugal six years ago.
Tags:
missing person, national/world
  • Three sisters from Georgia held their wedding on the same day so theyre dying mom could attend the ceremony.
  • Three sisters from Georgia held their wedding on the same day so they're ailing mom could attend the ceremony.
Tags:
weddings, cancer, national/world
  • Undated e-fit image issued by Londons Metropolitan Police Monday Oct.14, 2013 as part of the investigations into the 2007 disappearance of Madeleine McCann, then 3, in Portugal .
  • Police have released images of a new suspect in the disappearance of British girl Madeleine McCann in Portugal six years ago.
Tags:
missing person, national/world
  • The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences Torsten Persson, from left, Per Krusell, Staffan Normark and Per Stromberg announce the winners of 2013 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in Stockholm, Monday Oct. 14, 2013.
  • Americans Eugene Fama, Lars Peter Hansen and Robert Shiller have won the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences.
Tags:
nobel prize, national/world
  • A man with a knife was arrested after he tried to dart through a gate at Buckingham Palace in London on Monday.
Tags:
royals, national/world
  • The leader of the Afghan Taliban says his group will keep fighting if Kabul signs a key security deal with the United States.
Tags:
john kerry, afghanistan, taliban, NATO, bombing, war, military, national/world
  • In this Wednesday, Oct. 9, 2013 photo, graphic designer Tom Sadowski, 65, who delayed his retirement, works from home in Sterling, Va.
  • A new poll shows about half of working people 50 and older plan to retire at a later date than they previously expected.
Tags:
jobs, retirement, economy, national/world
  • An official says the death toll from a stampede in India near a temple has risen to 109 after many of the injured succumbed to injuries.
Tags:
religion, national/world
  • Gabrielle Giffords on a tour of the New EastCoast Arms Collectors Associates arms fair in Saratoga Springs
  • Former Ariz. congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords made her first visit to a gun show since surviving a 2011 assassination attempt.
Tags:
gabrielle giffords, guns, new york, national/world
  • In this photo taken Thursday, Feb. 4, 2010, an Electronic benefit Transfer card, food stamp recipients use to purchase food, is seen at the Sacramento County Economic Development Department in Sacramento, Calif. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, File)
  • Xerox Corp. says that access to food stamp systems has been restored in 17 states that were affected by a temporary outage.
Tags:
food, national/world
  • U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry says a partial agreement has been reached with Afghanistan on a security accord.
Tags:
john kerry, afghanistan, taliban, NATO, bombing, war, military, national/world
  • This Tuesday, July 23, 2013, photo shows a poster soliciting information regarding the unidentified body of a girl dubbed Baby Hope near the site where the body was found in New York. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
  • NYC police say they have made an arrest in the death of 'Baby Hope' 22 years after her body was discovered inside a picnic cooler.
Tags:
new york, cold case, sex crimes, children, crime, violence, national/world
  • A gay rights activist, left, argues with anti-gay protesters during an authorized gay rights rally in St.Petersburg, Russia
  • A gay rights rally in Russia ended in scuffles after several dozen protesters were confronted by conservative and religious activists.
Tags:
lgbt, protest, violence, religion, national/world
  • Ex-Yahoo execs kids stabbed to death by nanny
  • A New York City couple who lost two of their children in an attack police blamed on their nanny has welcomed a baby boy.
Tags:
child death, children, crime, new york, yahoo, noe valley, violence, murder, mental health, national/world
  • Malala Yousafzai
  • Diane Sawyer sat down for an interview with Malala, the teen who was shot in the head by the Taliban for wanting to go to school.
Tags:
pakistan, taliban, books, nobel prize, diane sawyer, television, national/world
  • A longtime zookeeper in southwest Missouri has been killed by an elephant.
Tags:
animal, national/world
  • Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder, right, and State-appointed emergency manager Kevyn Orr address reporters during a news conference on Friday, July 19, 2013, in Detroit.
  • A Detroit official says a $350M loan has been secured to help the city pay its way out of a complicated deal involving major creditors.
Tags:
bankruptcy, barack obama, national/world
  • Mercury astronaut Scott Carpenter answers a question from the crowd, he and Former Mercury astronaut and Sen. John Glenn speak at the Kennedy Space Center, Friday, Feb. 17, 2012 in Cape Canaveral, Fla. John Glenn fever has taken hold in the U.S.
  • The second American to orbit the Earth and one of the last surviving original Mercury 7 astronauts has died at the age of 88.
Tags:
NASA, national/world
  • New Jersey's highest court has agreed to hear a case on whether gay marriage should be legal in the state.
Tags:
same sex marriage, lgbt, supreme court, national/world
  • Pakistani student Farah Muneeb from Islamabads slums sits with fellow students at a makeshift school set up by a volunteer in a park in Islamabad, Pakistan on Thursday, Oct 11, 2012.
  • Friday marks the second annual International Day of the Girl. It's a day to recognize the power of education.
Tags:
children, national/world
  • Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons
  • The Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons has won this year's Nobel Peace Prize.
Tags:
nobel prize, national/world
  • Freight train smashes into semi-truck in Texas
  • The driver of an 18-wheeler managed to escape right before a freight train smashed into his semi-truck in Texas on Wednesday.
Tags:
crash, national/world
  • NJ Gov. Chris Christie is asking a court to consider an emergency appeal to delay the start of same-sex marriages in the state.
Tags:
same sex marriage, lgbt, national/world
  • Ariel Castro in court
  • Cleveland kidnapper Ariel Castro may have died from auto-erotic asphyxiation, not suicide.
Tags:
crime, national/world
  • Libyans Prime Minister Ali Zeidan
  • Libya's state news agency says kidnaped Prime Minister Ali Zidan has been freed.
Tags:
national/world