The ruble showed signs of recovery Wednesday after the dramatic devaluation the Russian currency had experienced in the previous two days. Vladimir Putin's government pressured exporters not to hoard foreign-currency earnings, and the country's central bank announced measures to support financial stability.
Exiled Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama, the head monk of the Gelug school of Tibetan Buddhism, has entertained the idea that he might be the last Lama to ever hold the sacred title.
On Tuesday, President Barrack Obama issued his annual Hanukkah message from the White House. On Tuesday, President Barrack Obama issued his annual Hanukkah message from the White House.
The Obama Administration announced this week the opening of the nation's largest family immigration detention center in the rural Southern Texas town of Dilley. The center is being converted from former oil field workers camp and being prepared as authorities brace for another influx of mothers and children from across the U.S. border.
Peruvian anti-terrorist police have arrested a Lebanese national, who is part of Hezbollah, in the capital city. The man initially lied about his nationality but later confessed to being part of the terrorist group.
Hong Kong's leader declared on Monday that the ongoing pro-democracy protests that obstructed the city's roads for over two months have officially come to an end. Police arrested the last remaining demonstrators for refusing to move from a protest site.
According to Mexico City-based news magazine Proceso, Mexican federal authorities may have had real-time information regarding the attack on 43 student teachers by local police and yet did nothing to stop their disappearance or murder.
An American citizen illegally crossed into North Korea and gave a speech denouncing the U.S. The man is believed to be bipolar and has not been imprisoned by North Korean authorities, unlike previous American captives..
A U.S. Marine has been charged with murder for strangling a transgender Filipina woman to death. Philippine government prosecutors charged detained Marine Pfc. Joseph Scott Pemberton with murder Monday in the killing of a Filipina transgender woman named Jennifer Laude.
New population projections based on the U.S. Census Bureau show whites will become a minority by 2044 while Latinos, Asians and multiracial populations are all expected to double in size over the next few decades. America will be a nation with a youthful, growing minority population juxtaposed against an aging, slow-growing, and soon to be declining white population.
The Supreme Court refused to allow Arizona to enforce stringent restrictions on medical abortions. That decision has left in place a lower court ruling in Planned Parenthood Arizona et al. v. Humble that blocked the rules that regulate where and how women can take drugs to induce abortion. The measure will remain preliminarily blocked while the case moves forward in the federal district court.
On Sunday in the southern Mexican state of Guerrero police clashed with protesters attempting to organize a concert in the city of Chilpancingo in support of the 43 missing students from the Raúl Isidro Burgos Rural Teachers' College of Ayotzinapa that disappeared over two months ago.
On Monday, the U.S. Senate approved legislation to impose sanctions on the Venezuelan government, and President Barack Obama has signaled he would sign the legislation into law.
Leopoldo Lopez, the 43-year-old Venezuelan opposition leader who is accused of inciting violent anti-government protests in early 2014, is standing firm to his convictions even as he stands behind bars.
Congress approves $5.4 billion to be spent to fight Ebola and a UN commission issues a report on the socio-economic impacts of the Ebola virus on the African continent and presses for debt forgiveness.
The hostage situation at a cafe in central Sydney has ended with two people dead, including the gunman, and an unknown number of wounded. The standoff lasted for a whole day, ending in the early hours of Tuesday, local time.
