The Dalai Lama will attend this year's National Prayer Breakfast on Feb. 5, marking the first time that the Tibetan leader will appear in public at an event that President Obama is expected to attend — though a senate aide said he would not have a speaking role at the event
Malaysia on Thursday declared the crash of Flight MH370 an accident, clearing the way for victims' relatives to proceed with compensation claims
An Afghan official said a suicide bomber struck a funeral for the victims of an earlier Taliban attack, killing 16 and wounding 39
Cuban President Raul Castro has demanded that the U.S. hand back its Guantanamo Bay military base before full diplomatic relations between the countries can be restored. The land on which the base stands was leased to the U.S. in 1903 by Cuba's then-rulers
Twenty percent of children in the U.S. need food stamps to eat, according to federal data released on Wednesday. Data compiled by the U.S. Census shows that 16 million children in the country used food stamps in 2014 — a jump from prerecession levels
Indiana Governor Mike Penc was widely criticized after announcing a plan to launch “Just IN,” a website that would include stories written by press secretaries and described in internal memos as competing with other media outlets
Indonesian investigators have concluded that the co-pilot of AirAsia Flight QZ8501 was controlling the plane before it crashed in the Java Sea. The plane, which crashed en route from Surabaya to Singapore on December 28, had 162 people on board
Members of sororities at the University of Virginia are outraged after their national chapters ordered them to avoid fraternity parties over the weekend. An online petition to remove the order had over 2,000 signatures by Thursday morning
The artists reached an agreement announced this week over similarities between a song of Petty's and Smith’s recent hit, Stay With Me. "Sam did the right thing and I have thought no more about this," Petty said in a statement
Penn State's president on Wednesday dismissed the university-commissioned review of how top administrators handled child-molestation complaints about former assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky as "not useful to make decisions"
Scientists at a French research institute say the Ebola virus has mutated, and they are studying whether it may have become more contagious. Although virus mutations are common, researchers are concerned that Ebola could eventually morph into an airborne disease if given enough time
Top-ranked Serena Williams beat Madison Keys to set up an Australian Open final against second-seeded Maria Sharapova. Sharapova, who beat Ekaterina Makarova in an all-Russian semifinal, has lost her last 15 head-to-head matches to Williams
Photographer Miikka Pirinen debunks the commonly held beliefs surrounding these cage-fighting children. “People often think that these kids have been forced to fight,” the Finnish photographer tells TIME
