A Canadian man, held by the Taliban in Afghanistan since 2010, has been released, Canada's government announced Monday.

Havana, a hot destination for tourists, models, musicians and famous photographers in the past year, will provide settings this week for the hit show “House of Lies".

On March 1-6, Havana will be hosting the 15^th edition of the Guillermo Barreto in Memoriam Fiesta del Tambor (Drum Party), a festival that annually takes place in this city. Artex’s cultural tourism agency, Paradiso, is the official incoming agency.

Three foreign tourists, two Austrians and a Swede, were stabbed during the incident. The attackers, armed with knives, were shot, with one killed and the other injured.

“This is a great step for Brazil, to trial visa waiver programs with these four countries in the period of the Olympic Games," WTTC President David Scowsill.

Beginning on Monday, it will enable visitors from China to make multiple trips to the UK for longer periods, the government said in a statement.