Argentine prosecutor Alberto Nisman, the man who officially accused high ranking government off's Aicials of covering up an Iranian connection to the 1994 car bombing of a Jewish center in Buenos Aires, had drafted an arrest warrant for President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner before dying on Jan. 19.
Although Bolivian President Evo Morales is known for making sexist remarks, he changed his tune on Monday when he painfully admitted that "women are more intelligent" than men.
The May 2011 liaison between Dominique Strauss-Kahn and Nafissatou Diallo, then a maid at New York's Sofitel, led to the Frenchman's resignation as head of the International Monetary Fund and effectively ended his political career, which had included presidential aspirations. But Diallo's fortunes, too, seem to have turned.
A TransAsia plane, flying from Taipei to a Chinese island, crashed minutes after take off. The number of dead has risen to 25 and could continue to rise. Taiwanese officials have begun investigating the airline, which has had previous accidents.
The Puerto Rican government is reportedly broke, and the debt owed by the U.S. commonwealth is more than two times the $73 billion publicly estimated by government officials.
The Queen of Ska Punk, Gwen Stefani, on a hiatus from her duties from as the front woman of Orange County rock band No Doubt, made an appearance on "The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon," on Tuesday to critical acclaim by the studio audience, Rap-Up reports.
The United Nations has formally denounced the murders of Moisés Sánchez Cerezo, a Mexican journalist recently found killed weeks after his disappearance, and Kenji Goto, a Japanese freelancer assassinated by Islamist extremists in Syria.
Vinicius Lages Tourism Minister for Brazil has expressed that he is not worried that Rio de Janeiro’s recent increase in violence might keep potential visitors from attending the 2016 Olympic Games.
A bystander was killed on Tuesday when a roadside bomb exploded in Alexandria, Egypt's second largest city. Meanwhile, authorities defused two more explosive devices at Cairo International Airport.
The Cuban government on Monday published a series of 21 photographs of Fidel Castro in an apparent effort to quell rumors about the health of the 88-year-old revolutionary leader.
The former Korean Air executive was charged with various crimes, including assault and violating aviation safety laws following a December incident in which she attacked a flight attendant who served nuts improperly.
The United States has dismissed recent allegations by Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro that accuse U.S. Vice President Joe Biden of conspiring to overthrow his government as "patently false" and a ploy to distract attention away from Maduro's abuse of power.
One of Venezuela’s most well-known drugstore chains, Farmatodo, has come under government scrutiny. The company’s top executives have been imprisoned as the government blames them for the long lines and food shortages plaguing the nation.
"Under Cane," a short documentary captured by photographer and filmmaker Ed Kashi for La Isla Foundation, showed the lives of numerous individuals touched by the disease that killed thousands, particularly in Nicaragua. More than 20,000 individuals, mostly male, have died from chronic kidney disease after working on the fields. Said to be an epidemic, the disease is spreading rabidly among sugarcane harvesters.
