Six Democratic members of Congress traveled to Cuba over the weekend to meet with dignitaries and continue diplomatic talks with the island nation. The State Department will pick up the baton and send its own delegation to Cuba on Wednesday.
Argentine investigator Alberto Nisman, in charge of investigating the 1994 bombing of the Argentine-Israelite Mutual Association (AMIA) building, was found dead at his home in Buenos Aires on Monday.
With the U.S. and Cuba normalizing its diplomatic relations, President Barack Obama is expected to comment on its progress, however, the future with the Guantanamo Bay prison facility remains shrouded.
A newly released study examined the correlation between hours worked each week and drinking habits and found that – worldwide – individuals who work longer weeks than their peers were prone to heavier alcoholic drinking tendencies.
Mexican police have arrested last Friday a member of a criminal drug gang linked with the murder of 43 student teachers in the southern city of Iguala last September
The U.S. government confidently traced last year's massive Sony hack to North Korea in part because the National Security Agency had itself infiltrated Pyongyang's computer systems. The NSA tried to break into the North's networks as early as 2010 with the help of American allies.
Pro-Russian rebels in eastern Ukraine affirmed on Monday that they were in control of the Donetsk airport. The city of nearly a million inhabitants serves as the capital of the self-declared Donetsk People's Republic, and the airfield - though largely destroyed in earlier clashes - is of significant strategic and symbolic value.
Fighting between government forces and Shiite rebels has Yemen on the brink of a coup, though both sides agreed to a cease-fire on Monday after clashes had reached the vicinity of the presidential palace in Sanaa, the country's capital.
A gay couple from Mexico has been stopped from getting married four times. A gay couple from Mexico has been stopped from getting married four times. Victor Fernando Urias Amparo and Victor Manuel Aguirre Espinoza have not been allowed to marry because of Mexicali's mayor, Jaime Rafael Diaz Ochoa, and other officials.
In the wake of the deadly attacks on the Charlie Hebdo magazine and a kosher grocery store in Paris and in an effort to foil similar incidents, French, German and Belgian authorities on Friday arrested more than two dozen terrorism suspects.
European police arrested over two dozen suspects in anti-terrorism raids Friday. French, German and Belgian police rushed to stop terrorist attacks by people linked to Islamic extremists in the Middle East, Associated Press reported.
Belgian police killed two men during one of about a dozen raids Thursday against an Islamist group who was reportedly about to launch large terrorist attacks.
The French public further underlined its support for Charlie Hebdo by picking up all 700,000 copies of the satirical magazine attacked last week by Islamist militants. The publication's latest issue, offered at 27,000 newsstands across the country, sold out within minutes.
