A passenger train was placed under quarantine Friday in northern Ontario after an undetermined illness left one woman dead and at least 10 other people sick.
The commander of Mexico City's investigative police force was shot and killed Friday morning as he left his home, authorities said.
A gorilla recognized as the world's oldest in captivity celebrated her 55th birthday by munching down a four-layer frozen fruit cake and banana leaf wrapped treats.
Bolivian President Evo Morales said Thursday he supports a congressional decision to hold a referendum on whether he and his administration should remain in power amid a move for autonomy that he opposes.
Mexico's federal police chief was shot to death early Thursday in a northwestern Mexico City neighborhood, the country's public safety department said.
Nearly a week after a volcano erupted in Chaiten, Chile, disgorging its contents across a wide area of the Andes Mountains, authorities finished evacuating the area most affected.
Endangered scarlet macaws born in captivity are reproducing in the wild for the first time on Costa Rica's southern Pacific coast.
Police and soldiers are forcefully removing some 130 people who have refused to leave the area around the erupting Chaiten volcano in southern Chile.
Farmers in Argentina decided Wednesday to resume a strike that cut exports, blocked roads and emptied store shelves last month.
A Brazilian rancher convicted of orchestrating the 2005 killing of an American nun has been acquitted after a witness contradicted his own testimony.
A passenger train was placed under quarantine Friday in northern Ontario after an undetermined illness left one woman dead and at least 10 other people sick.
The commander of Mexico City's investigative police force was shot and killed Friday morning as he left his home, authorities said.
A gorilla recognized as the world's oldest in captivity celebrated her 55th birthday by munching down a four-layer frozen fruit cake and banana leaf wrapped treats.
Bolivian President Evo Morales said Thursday he supports a congressional decision to hold a referendum on whether he and his administration should remain in power amid a move for autonomy that he opposes.
Mexico's federal police chief was shot to death early Thursday in a northwestern Mexico City neighborhood, the country's public safety department said.
Nearly a week after a volcano erupted in Chaiten, Chile, disgorging its contents across a wide area of the Andes Mountains, authorities finished evacuating the area most affected.
Endangered scarlet macaws born in captivity are reproducing in the wild for the first time on Costa Rica's southern Pacific coast.
Police and soldiers are forcefully removing some 130 people who have refused to leave the area around the erupting Chaiten volcano in southern Chile.
Farmers in Argentina decided Wednesday to resume a strike that cut exports, blocked roads and emptied store shelves last month.
A Brazilian rancher convicted of orchestrating the 2005 killing of an American nun has been acquitted after a witness contradicted his own testimony.
A Cuban woman who has gained worldwide acclaim with a blog that voices stinging criticism of the Havana government received a major journalism award Wednesday, and said it gave her a "small protective shield" to keep pressing for democracy in her country.
President Bush said Wednesday that Cuba's post-Fidel Castro leadership has made only "empty gestures at reform" and rejected calls for easing of U.S. restrictions on the communist island.
Colombia extradited one of the country's most feared paramilitary warlords to the United States early Wednesday to face drug-trafficking charges, the government said.
Chile's Chaiten volcano spewed clouds of gray smoke, hot rocks and toxic gas on Tuesday, forcing authorities to issue an evacuation order for the more than 200 people who remained in the town of Chaiten, emergency officials said.
Rescue workers found the wreckage of a small plane that went missing four days ago off Brazil's northeastern coast with four British businessmen and two local pilots, British officials said Tuesday.
Officials say rescue workers have found the bodies of four more passengers of the ferryboat that sank in a remote Amazon region in northern Brazil. The discovery raises the death toll to 21.
Spanish police say they have recovered more than 700 pieces of pre-Columbian art of "incalculable value" allegedly plundered and taken from South American countries to be sold in Europe.
Bolivian President Evo Morales has renewed calls for negotiations with the governors of states considering autonomy.
A boat ferrying at least 80 people home from a party sank in Brazil's Amazon region early Sunday, killing at least 15 and leaving dozens missing, according to rescue officials and Brazil's government.
Thousands of people in Bolivia's largest state celebrated what they saw as the success of a referendum on autonomy Sunday night, but the country's president said the measure had failed.
Pro-government peasant groups are being blamed for burning dozens of ballot boxes Sunday in Bolivia's largest state of Santa Cruz, where voters are casting their ballots in an autonomy referendum.
Voters in Bolivia's largest state are likely to pass a sweeping autonomy referendum Sunday, dealing a blow to the country's leftist president and deepening an entrenched political conflict.
The Chilean government says the southern town of Chaiten is virtually empty after it was evacuated and thousands of residents taken to safety in the wake of a nearby volcano's eruption.
A small plane carrying four British businessmen and two Brazilian pilots has disappeared off the northeastern Brazil coast, officials said.
Computers went on sale Friday for Cubans' private use, the latest in a series of goods to become available under the communist government's new president.
Officials have said a Mexican federal police intelligence analyst has been killed in an apparent armed robbery attempt outside his home in the capital.
The eruption of a volcano has triggered a seismic wave forcing authorities to evacuate about 250 people from remote villages in southern Chile.
Al-Jazeera cameraman Sami al-Hajj arrived home in the Sudanese capital of Khartoum early Friday after nearly six years in the U.S. Navy prison camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
Police on Friday captured the second of two drug-trafficking twins who were suspected to be among Colombia's main cocaine shippers.
"Come on let's go!" says Capt. Jeremy Bastian, a U.S. Air Force chaplain.
A human rights activist whose disappearance prompted an intense government manhunt in Argentina said Thursday he was released by his captors after being tied up and beaten.
Police are investigating the death of a man on a flight from Moscow to Toronto after an alleged altercation aboard the plane.
Mexico's lower house of Congress has voted to remove adultery from the country's criminal code, noting that no one has been prosecuted for the offense since 2004.
Canada's government was investigating an oil-sands company after hundreds of ducks that landed on a partially frozen pond filled with toxic waste died.
President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela signed a decree Wednesday that orders the nationalization of the country's leading steel producer.
Thousands of people packed a broad street Wednesday in downtown Santa Cruz, Bolivia, listening to speakers urge them to vote "Si" Sunday on a referendum seeking autonomy for the eastern department of Santa Cruz.
Venezuela's associations with terror states, Iran's meddling in Iraq and the resurgence of al Qaeda in Afghanistan top the concerns in a new State Department report on terrorism threats in countries around the world.
About 500 migrating ducks were dead or dying after landing on a pond owned by oil-sands company Syncrude Canada Ltd., officials said.
Cuba said Wednesday that its crucial tourism industry appears to be recovering from a two-year slump, with a 15 percent increase in visitors during the first quarter of the year.
Colombian police have killed a drug trafficker who the government says is one of the most sought-after fugitive outside the country's rebel leaders.
Scientists studying the carcass of what they call the heaviest squid ever found have discovered it has eyes as big as soccer balls -- reportedly the largest in the world.
A U.S. surfer was killed in a shark attack off Mexico's southern Pacific coast, officials said Tuesday.
Colombian police killed a top drug lord on Tuesday for whose capture the U.S. government offered a $5 million reward, Colombia's defense minister said.
Power returned slowly to Venezuela on Tuesday night, a few hours after widespread outages blacked out nearly half the country, trapping people in elevators, stalling subways, filling streets with pedestrians and forcing hospitals to switch to emergency generators.
Public hospitals in Chile are facing a strike that is slowing attention to patients.
Guyanese authorities have banned a Jamaican reggae artist known for anti-gay lyrics from performing in the South American country.
Mexico's ruling party has rejected calls for a cease-fire from a small rebel group blamed for last year's bomb attacks on gas and oil pipelines.
President Raul Castro announced Monday that Cuba will convene its first Communist Party congress since 1997 -- a gathering that could chart the island's political future long after he and his older brother Fidel are gone.
Brazil's navy has dropped its search for a priest who vanished more than a week ago while floating over the Atlantic Ocean with a cluster of party balloons, a spokeswoman said Monday.
Spain's National Court on Monday rejected a request from Buenos Aires for the extradition of former Argentine President Isabel Peron on charges of human rights abuses.
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has agreed to re-engage Colombian rebels in an effort to win the release of three Americans who have been hostages in Colombia since 2003, Gov. Bill Richardson of New Mexico said.
A moderate earthquake of 5.8 magnitude struck southwestern Mexico on Sunday night, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.
Massive gunbattles broke out between suspected drug traffickers who fired at each other while speeding down heavily populated streets of this violent border city early Saturday, killing 13 people and wounding nine.
During his two months in power, Cuban President Raul Castro has implemented a series of changes affecting life in Cuba in a variety of ways.
Argentina's economy minister has resigned in the wake of a crippling farmers' strike that emptied store shelves and cut exports, the country's news agency reported.
Legislators in Peru plan to lodge a protest on Friday with the European Parliament after it declined to list the Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement, an insurgent group, as a terrorist organization.
Brazil's Air Force has suspended its search for a Roman Catholic priest who vanished after sailing into the air attached to hundreds of balloons. The cleric's family chartered a private plane to continue the hunt.
The moonlight illuminated her fellow passengers, scattered through the chilly ocean 15 miles from the nearest land. Some of them screamed for help. Others bobbed silently, face-down in the water.
Paraguay's President-elect Fernando Lugo, who ended 61 years of single-party rule with his victory Sunday, will face a largely conservative Congress that may make carrying out his reforms difficult, according to the vice president-elect and an analyst.
Colombian President Alvaro Uribe is trying to navigate a crisis: how to operate a government in which 30 Colombian congressmen have been formally sought by prosecutors for alleged ties to right-wing paramilitary groups.
An animal rights group is offering $1 million to any scientist who can create lab-grown meat that is commercially viable and indistinguishable in taste from the real thing.
Prime Minister Bruce Golding wants to permit licensing of casinos in Jamaica as a way to boost revenues, a move that is certain to ignite fierce opposition by religious groups who argue gambling encourages vice.
Rescuers reached a cluster of brightly colored party balloons floating in the ocean off Brazil's coast Tuesday but did not find the Roman Catholic priest who had been using them in a bid to set a flight record.
Colombian President Alvaro Uribe's second cousin, ex-Senator Mario Uribe Escobar, was arrested Tuesday after Costa Rica denied his request for asylum, a witness said.
An attorney says a cousin of Colombia's president who is wanted for alleged paramilitary ties is in the Costa Rican Embassy in Bogota requesting political asylum.
A Roman Catholic priest who floated off under hundreds of helium party balloons was missing Monday off the southern coast of Brazil.
U.S. and Bahamian rescue workers found the bodies of 20 people floating in open waters Sunday near the Bahamas, U.S. Coast Guard officials said Monday.
A U.S. tourist has been killed after losing control of his mountain bike and plunging off a cliff while riding down Bolivia's famously treacherous "Highway of Death," officials said.
A newspaper report says Cuban President Raúl Castro wants to improve relations with Mexico.
The bodies of 20 migrants have been recovered from the sea near the Bahamas after their boat apparently capsized, the U.S. Coast Guard said Monday as it searched for survivors.
Brazil's president insisted Thursday that crops used for ethanol are not responsible for driving up food prices, and said Haiti -- where food riots have erupted recently -- could benefit from a biofuel industry.
Haiti's Parliament has voted to dismiss Prime Minister Jacques Edouard Alexis after deadly protests over rising food prices.
Riots from Haiti to Bangladesh to Egypt over the soaring costs of basic foods have brought the issue to a boiling point and catapulted it to the forefront of the world's attention, the head of an agency focused on global development said Monday.
Six decades of single-party rule in Paraguay came to an end on Sunday after Colorado Party candidate Blanca Ovelar conceded a loss to former Catholic bishop Fernando Lugo, who claimed the historic win on his promise to help the poor.
Four exit polls projected former Roman Catholic Bishop Fernando Lugo winning enough votes in Sunday's election to end six decades of one-party rule in Paraguay, but his rival disputed the polls and vowed to wait for official results.
More than 2 million Paraguayans will head to the polls Sunday for the country's presidential election, which could see the end of six decades of power for the ruling Colorado Party.
Fireworks gone awry during a concert killed 14 concertgoers and injured 16 others at a Quito, Ecuador, nightclub, the Red Cross confirmed.
Floodwaters have destroyed more than 1.2 million houses, according to Bolivian officials, with the northeastern department of Beni seeing the worst flooding in 50 years.
Smoke blanketed the Argentine capital Friday as brush fires apparently set deliberately consumed thousands of acres in the provinces of Buenos Aires and Entre Ríos.
U.N. officials pledged Friday to pursue those responsible for slaying a Nigerian peacekeeper during food riots in the Haitian capital.
"The Simpsons" has returned to Venezuelan television -- shifting to a nighttime slot after regulators ordered it off the air in the morning.
President Raúl Castro has moved quickly since taking the reins of power from his ailing brother, Fidel, last year to boost food production by putting more land into the hands of profit-earning farmers.
A group of 10 Bolivians is suing the country's former president and defense minister in federal court in Florida over their government's response to protests in 2003, which left 67 civilians dead and injured 400 more.
Colombian President Alvaro Uribe says he does not regret waging a cross-border raid on a rebel camp in Ecuador in which four Mexican students were killed.
British supermodel Naomi Campbell wants to give blood to help fight a dengue epidemic, but Brazilian officials won't take it yet.
A police raid on a Rio de Janeiro shantytown set off a fierce gun battle that killed at least nine people and wounded seven, officials said.
The highest active volcano in Colombia erupted Monday night, prompting authorities to order the evacuation of up to 15,000 people.
Former Argentine President Isabel Peron appeared Monday in a Spanish court to fight a request for her extradition over human rights abuses during her rule, arguing she is frail and protected by having Spanish citizenship.
A truck slammed into a bus carrying tourists to an Ecuadorean coastal town, killing five young British women and injuring 15 other people, police and diplomatic officials said Sunday.
People wondered about the bearded foreigner who moved into a rustic cabin weeks ago in the pine-clad mountains surrounding this picturesque village.
Runners surrounded by rows of security carried the Olympic flame past thousands of jubilant Argentines on Friday in the most trouble-free torch relay in nearly a week.
Leftist lawmakers who seized both chambers of Mexico's Congress said Friday they will not move until winning a national debate on an oil overhaul bill backed by President Felipe Calderon.
As government billboards called on residents in Buenos Aires to enjoy Friday's planned leg of the Olympic torch run, officials in the Argentine capital were planning for possible disruptions such those that have occurred in other relay cities.
The United Nations secretary general has joined a growing list of high-profile leaders who have indicated they will not attend the Olympic Games' opening ceremony in Beijing, as the troubled torch relay moved to Argentina on Friday.
Food protests in Haiti ended Thursday as police cleared the streets of roadblocks and demonstrators abandoned their barricades.
Argentina is billing its Olympic torch run Friday as an easygoing street fiesta, set to a tango beat.
Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa's former personal secretary, Javier Ponce, took over as defense minister in a move analysts said gives Correa greater control over the military.
Five French tourists visiting Peru's Nazca lines were killed Wednesday when their small plane crashed after becoming tangled in power lines, police and witnesses said.
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