US Secretary of State John Kerry says the United States wants to be "good neighbours" to Cuba, but has cautioned the road to full relations remains "long and complex."
MIAMI - The planet has set another monthly climate record, with scientists in the US recording the hottest June in 135 years.
LONDON - A British study which saw dementia patients undergo music therapy resulted in improvements to their symptoms and wellbeing as well as a reduction in disruptiveness to staff at their care home.
NEW YORK - It seems Harper Lee's latest novel is a bestseller, despite it being dismissed by critics as a rough draft for her first novel, To Kill a Mockingbird.
MONROVIA - Liberia has discharged its last four Ebola patients, leaving the west African nation with no known cases of the deadly tropical fever.
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BERLIN - A former Nazi SS officer known as the "Bookkeeper of Auschwitz" has appealed against the four-year jail sentence handed to him last week.
LONDON - Physicist Stephen Hawking has teamed up with a Russian billionaire to launch a new quest to discover life on other planets.
WASHINGTON - The US National Air and Space Museum is launching a crowdfunding campaign to conserve the spacesuit Neil Armstrong wore on the moon.
