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Rick Santos has two missions in Haiti this time around.
As huge numbers of desperate Haitians struggled Friday in what could be their last hours of life, the supplies many needed remained stuck in planes, ships, and cargo holds, unable to get to them.
At least 14 inmates died Friday in a prison riot in northeastern Mexico, the state news agency reported.
Lesley Enriquez went to a birthday party and brought her husband and baby daughter along. After the food and cake and singing and children’s games were done, the family piled into the car and headed home.
While the eyes of the world have followed the effect of Haiti’s devastating earthquake on Port-au-Prince, an ecological disaster has been quietly unfolding elsewhere in the country.
A team with Los Angeles County Search and Rescue answered Saturday the desperate, but futile, pleas of a mother who believed her young daughter was trapped alive beneath the rubble of a day care center in downtown Port-au-Prince.
Emilio Massera, a former admiral who was part of a military junta that ruled Argentina in the 1970s, died Monday in the hospital were he had been for some time, the state-run Telam news agency reported.
Brazilian football star Adriano appeared before a prosecutor on Wednesday and denied accusations of associating with a top Rio de Janeiro drug gang, state officials and Adriano’s lawyer said.
Chilean authorities said Friday that crews were trying to rescue at least 33 workers trapped inside a mine.
A war between drug gangs was behind this weekend’s massacre in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, that left 16 dead, including 10 teenagers, an official told CNN Tuesday.
Earthquake victims, writhing in pain and grasping at life, watched doctors and nurses walk away from a field hospital Friday night after United Nations officials ordered a medical team to evacuate the area out of security concerns.
A Brazilian agricultural company has been fined $2.8 million for employing 180 slave laborers, among them adolescents, the government-run Agencia Brasil news agency reported Wednesday.
Peru and Yale University have reached an agreement that will return a massive collection of pre-Columbian Inca artifacts to the South American country — a settlement that could end a lengthy dispute over relics excavated nearly a century ago.
Police in Rio de Janeiro are searching for a high-profile soccer player accused of orchestrating the kidnapping and murder of a woman believed to have been a former lover, officials said Wednesday.
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