The suspect in a car bombing that left 21 people dead on Thursday in Bogotá, the capital,was a member of the country’s largest remaining guerrilla group, the defense ministry said Friday.
José Aldemar Rojas Rodríguez, the assailant who was also killed in the attack, was a member of the National...
Lin-Manuel Miranda made an impromptu edit to one of the numbers in his acclaimed Hamilton Wednesday night after he spotted a woman filming a performance in Puerto Rico. While performing One Shot, Miranda noticed the audience member pointing a camera at the stage, the BBC reports. So, thinking (or...
The “Big Mac” trademark is not exclusive to McDonald’s anymore, at least not in the EU.
In a landmark ruling, McDonald's has lost the right to the trademark 'Big Mac' across the bloc to the Irish fast-food chain Supermac.
“This is the end of McBully,” said Supermac’s founder Pat McDonagh in...
A day after learning that a science-fiction show on Netflix used actual footage of the Lac-Mégantic rail disaster, the mayor of the Quebec town said she believes images of the tragedy were used in a second Netflix production, "Bird Box."
Lac-Mégantic Mayor Julie Morin wants the streaming service to take...
More than half of the world’s wild coffee could be at risk of extinction due to climate change, deforestation and disease, new research says.
In an analysis of 124 known coffee species, scientists from the U.K.-based Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew found 75 (60%) are at risk of extinction. Thirteen of...
Alfred K. Newman, one of the last of the Navajo Code Talkers, has died in New Mexico at age 94.
Newman was among 400 Navajos who helped defeat the Japanese during World War II by developing an unbreakable code for military transmissions using the Dine language. The Code Talkers have...
Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro signed a decree loosening the country’s restrictive gun regulations, and hinted at further measures to arm law-abiding citizens to combat rampant crime.
The decree, which does not require congressional approval, scraps the requirement that Brazilians need to prove their "effective need" to own a firearm. Nevertheless...
For many people, the prospect of coming across a river of chocolate might seem the stuff dreams are made of.
Rescuers in Arizona, however, faced a bittersweet situation on Monday, when approximately 40,000 pounds of liquid chocolate spilled onto the road after a truck rolled over.
The incident happened just before...
Violent clashes broke out between hundreds of Arab Christians and police in Haifa on Friday following demonstrations against the Haifa Museum of Art which displayed "McJesus," a sculpture showing Ronald McDonald on a cross.
The depiction of a crucified Ronald McDonald, sculpted by Finnish artist Janei Leinonen, and...
