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Three human heads and three decapitated bodies with notes aimed at high government officials were found Thursday morning in different parts of Guatemala’s capital, national police said.
A man pulled alive from the rubble of a building in Haiti’s capital Monday may have been trapped since the January 12 quake that leveled much of the city, doctors reported.
Better known for affordable denim than modern art, GAP founders Don and Doris Fisher amassed a collection of over 1,000 works by artists like Andy Warhol over 35 years.
His return heralded by a siren’s blare and the cries of a happy nation, the first of 33 Chilean miners emerged into a cool desert night early Wednesday after being trapped underground for 69 harrowing days.
Anger boiled over on the streets of Haiti’s capital Tuesday — not just from residents who have gone a week without food and water, but from the people who are supposed to be providing it.
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon will meet with Chilean President Michele Bachelet and her successor on Friday, to reassure the earthquake-battered nation of the international commitment to aid.
The steeple clock at Port-au-Prince’s St. Pierre Catholic Church is stopped at 4:53, the hour at which a devastating earthquake struck Haiti nearly one week ago.
Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva was meeting Tuesday morning with his emergency Cabinet as flooding in two northeastern states killed at least 40 people and left more than 100,000 homeless, the Agencia Brasil state news agency and civil defense officials reported.
Aid is getting to Haiti but it’s not as simple as getting a direct flight to the quake-battered nation.
A 6.9-magnitude earthquake struck near Kira Kira in the Solomon Islands on Saturday, the U.S. Geological Survey said.
The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights on Monday castigated Venezuela for its recent record on freedom of expression in a letter sent to the country’s foreign minister.
A Mexican father who said his two young children had been kidnapped — and later told authorities he had sold them to pay a debt — confessed after their bodies were found that he had killed them, prosecutors say.
A photo on a Facebook page shows them dressed in black suits, white shirts and stylish ties. They’re at some sort of dinner and they look straight into the camera, their young faces full of hope and promise and that assuredness reserved for those for whom the future stretches endlessly.
At least 28 people died and at least 44 were injured when a bus plunged off a highway and into a ravine in Bolivia Sunday, state media said.
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