Bill Clinton to return to Haiti to oversee aid relief
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Former President Bill Clinton plans to return to Haiti on Friday to meet with Haitian leaders, visit a clinic and deliver supplies, his foundation said.
At least 106 people have died after a tropical storm battered Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador over the weekend, officials in those countries reported.
A coal mine explosion early Thursday in northwest Colombia has trapped at least 70 miners and killed at least five workers, a local official told CNN en Español.
A coal mine explosion in northwest Colombia has killed at least 11 miners and trapped 61 others, a state government official said Thursday.
At least three people were killed and 17 injured when an avalanche struck a snowmobile competition in western Canada, authorities said.
Venezuela has asked Interpol to arrest the owner of the only TV station still openly critical of leftist President Hugo Chavez, the government announced Friday.
Francisco and Astrid Ramos returned to Argentina from Haiti the morning of January 12, just hours before the devastating earthquake hit.
Ronide Baduel keeps a broken teacup tucked away for safekeeping.
The supply line to Haiti is clogged by airport congestion and blocked roads, forcing thousands of earthquake survivors to scrounge for food and emergency aid. But the head of the United Nations is calling for calm among the increasingly desperate populations.
The Colombian Constitutional Court ruled Friday against holding a referendum that could have cleared the way for President Alvaro Uribe to run for a third consecutive term.
Doctors, medicine and specialist rescue teams from around the world continued to arrive in Haiti Thursday, as the earthquake-battered country faced up to a humanitarian crisis that officials estimate has claimed more than 100,000 lives.
A 54-year-old man accused of fathering seven children with his daughter was arrested this week in Pinheiro, Brazil, police said, according to CNN affiliate Record TV.
Adventurer Reid Stowe is due to set foot on dry land Thursday for the first time in over three years.
Back in the mid-zeroes, I remember reading a lot of stories about a buildup of trash in the Pacific Ocean so massive that it had formed a floating island of waste the size of Texas. Its colorful nickname was the Great Eastern Garbage Patch, and what was even more mind-boggling than the purported scale was that pretty much the only places you could dig up any substantial info about it were in minor oceanographic and environmental publications. You also couldn’t find a photo of it to save your life. It was like Garbage Brigadoon.
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