It was just before 8 am on Dec 26, 2004. The sky was blue, and Jamaliah was hanging clothes on the line while her three kids were inside watching TV on a sleepy Sunday. In a second, everything changed.
As towering waves hit the southern coast of Sri Lanka on Dec 26, 2004, Kushil Gunasekera gathered up his children and ran for their lives to a nearby temple, the highest point they could find.
The Democratic People's Republic of Korea says it likely will have no "physical reaction", just condemnation, to the release of the film The Interview, which depicts the fictional assassination of top leader Kim Jong-un.
British Queen Elizabeth II paid tribute in her annual Christmas Day broadcast on Thursday to the "selflessness" of medical staff and aid workers fighting the Ebola epidemic.
Protests flared into early on Thursday in the St. Louis suburb where a white policeman fatally shot a black man who brandished a gun at a gas station on Tuesday night.
What do two world leaders do when they find themselves on the same Hawaiian island on Christmas Eve? If you're US President Barack Obama and Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak, you round up a few aides and make common cause on the golf course.
Pakistan said on Thursday that it will set up military courts for terror-related cases, part of an ambitious anti-terrorism plan following a deadly Taliban school attack that killed 150 people.
A suburban St. Louis police officer shot and killed a man who pointed a gun at him, only a few miles from where the fatal shooting of a black man by a white officer led to weeks of protests earlier this year, police said on Wednesday.
Before US President Barack Obama announced last week that Washington and Havana would restore diplomatic ties, one US official had already been working on a special project - call it insemination diplomacy - to unite the two countries.
South Korean prosecutors sought an arrest warrant on Wednesday for Korean Air heiress Cho Hyun-ah, who delayed a flight with a tantrum over snacks.
A former US subcontractor freed last week after five years in a Cuban jail will receive $3.2 million from the federal government as part of a settlement with the Maryland-based company that employed him at the time of his arrest.
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