A church group in the Republic of Korea has canceled plans to erect a 9-meter Christmas tree near the border with the Democratic People's Republic of Korea after locals complained that it could provoke Pyongyang.
Cubans cheered the surprise announcement that their country will restore relations with the United States, hopeful they'll soon see expanded trade and new economic vibrancy even though the 53-year-old economic embargo remains in place for the time being.
The US and Cuba will begin taking steps to restore full diplomatic relations. Here are the key elements of changes to US policy toward Cuba:
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.
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