When Cuban and US leaders announced they would restore diplomatic relations after a standoff lasting more than a half-century, all eyes in the US immediately turned to Miami, where many expected the country's largest population of Cuban exiles to pour angrily into the streets.
For more than a century, Cuba was known to make the world's finest cigars - to the point where they simply became known as "havanas". But ever since Washington slapped a trade embargo on Cuba in 1961, those cigars have been a forbidden pleasure for US citizens.
Waving his hands as if conducting an invisible orchestra, Juan Trujillo sings an old song known to Carmelita settlers living deep in northern Guatemala's Mayan jungle.
Universities across the US are using satirical references from The Simpsons to grab students' attention and convey lessons in literature and all manner of popular culture.
Mayor Eric Garcetti announced a plan on Tuesday to equip 7,000 Los Angeles police officers with on-body cameras by next summer.
The gunman responsible for a deadly siege in a cafe in Sydney, Australia, was once on the national security agency's watch list, but was dropped off it years ago for reasons that remain unclear, the country's prime minister said on Wednesday.
Iran repeatedly warned Australia about the criminal past of the perpetrator of the Sydney cafe siege and called for him to be kept under surveillance, top officials in Teheran said.
Tens of thousands of mourners bowed before a huge statue of Kim Jong-il on Wednesday as the Democratic People's Republic of Korea marked the third anniversary of the former leader's death.
The Palestinians are to push forward a draft UN resolution demanding an end to Israeli occupation, despite what they call warnings the United States is ready to veto the measure.
A shootout between rival vigilantes in Michoacan state left 11 dead, authorities said on Tuesday. The federal government's security commissioner for the state, Alfredo Castillo, said the clash pitted two rival vigilante groups against each another in La Ruana, about 240 km from Morelia, the capital. Castillo did not elaborate on what provoked the shootout.
The Pakistani prime minister lifted a moratorium on the death penalty, a day after Taliban gunmen attacked a school, killing 132 students and 16 adults, a government spokesman said on Wednesday.
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