Sony Pictures has canceled the release of The Interview, a comedy on the fictional assassination of the leader of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.
Australia's prime minister said on Thursday that a deadly siege at a Sydney cafe may have been preventable, as critics demanded to know why the gunman was out on bail despite facing a string of violent charges.
Saffron cultivation needs lots of land and labor, but the world's most expensive spice could be an economic lifeline for Afghanistan, with international financial support set to decline in coming years.
India successfully launched its biggest ever rocket on Thursday as the country ramps up its ambitious space program.
Boko Haram has kidnapped at least 185 people, including women and children, from a Nigerian village, carting the hostages away on trucks toward Sambisa Forest, a notorious rebel stronghold, two local officials and a vigilante leader said on Thursday.
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.
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