Brazilian rescue workers dug through rubble in search of survivors Thursday morning, hours after three buildings collapsed in the historic center of Rio de Janeiro, Mayor Eduardo Paes told reporters.
Undeterred by the darkness or search dogs who no longer picked up signs of life, a rescue crew patiently chipped away at concrete and debris early Sunday morning to try and reach a woman who sent a text message that she was buried beneath the ruins of a collapsed bank.
Four people died, two are missing and 110 were injured when a tornado struck Thursday afternoon in northern Argentina, near the border with Paraguay, the state-run Telam news agency reported Friday.
The Organization of American States will send its secretary-general to Costa Rica and Nicaragua to mediate a border dispute between the two countries, the body announced Thursday.
Mexican officials have launched an investigation into allegations that a reputed Mexican drug cartel “queen” received a beauty treatment while in prison.
The shooting death of a Mexican journalist last week was not due to his work but was related to a “personal problem,” a Chihuahua state attorney’s office spokesman said Monday.
Mexican President Felipe Calderon announced Thursday that he will propose Marisela Morales to replace Arturo Chavez Chavez as attorney general.
Prince William and his wife Catherine began the fourth day their Canadian tour Sunday with a bilingual morning prayer service aboard a naval ship.
Pediatrician Elizabeth Bellino was supposed to start work in Africa this week. Instead, she found herself trying to save lives Wednesday at a field hospital in Haiti’s capital.
French rescue workers pulled a 24-year-old man alive from the rubble of a hotel in Haiti on Saturday, 11 days after an earthquake devastated much of the country.
There are dozens of murders recorded in Mexico each month, but it was a single one that set off a succession of skirmishes that has turned the northeastern state of Tamaulipas into a battle zone.
Authorities in Trinidad and Tobago are beefing up security after uncovering an assassination plot against the prime minister and three Cabinet members, state media reported.
Having spent its fury on Haiti, Tomas strengthened Saturday back into a hurricane as it spun into the open waters of the Atlantic Ocean.
Hidden between tomato stalks, the Mexican army found what officials describe as the largest marijuana plantation in the nation, a top military official announced Thursday.
Canada’s Conservative Party was riding to a definitive victory as results from national elections came in early Tuesday.
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