American doors open to Cuba after more than fifty years/ Sony cancels a Christmas release / FARC calls an indefinite truce / And the vast ocean hidden beneath the earth's crust

What action will Pakistan take on Taliban ? / The yard building world's largest vessel / First woman bishop for the Church of England

More funerals for school massacre victims/ Rouble freefall continues amid US sanctions threat / Jeb Bush for president? / Arctic squirrel outed

How will Pakistan tackle its radical Islamists ? / Erdogan accused of eroding Turkish democracy / How Sydney cafe gunman behaved during siege / What is an "earworm" ?

Three dead in Sydney cafe stand-off / Russian interest rates leap to 17 percent / A long-forgotten Disney character gets a new lease of life

Has Russian law triggered a rise in homophobia ? / Tackling FGM in Gambia / Young Iranians defying law by cohabiting