Chile marks three days of mourning starting Sunday, with every house authorized to hang the national flag in memory of those who perished in a massive earthquake a week ago.
Mexican authorities have arrested a drug gang suspect in connection with dramatic shootings in Ciudad Juarez that killed 16 people, including three connected with the U.S. consulate, federal police said Friday.
A Venezuelan governor and former minister of communications was missing Saturday after a car accident.
A quickly intensifying Hurricane Igor is poised on Monday to become a Category 5 storm — the most-powerful on the Saffir-Simpson scale that measures tropical weather.
Cuban President Raul Castro announced on Monday that the Communist Party will hold a long-delayed congress next April as the country struggles to reshape its Soviet economic model.
Tubes packed with flashlights, water and oxygen were being sent Monday morning to 33 Chilean miners trapped for nearly three weeks in an underground shelter, said national Mining Minister Laurence Golborne.
A Colombian has officially been declared the world’s shortest man by Guinness World Records officials — but his reign looks set to be short-lived.
A Japanese man accused of operating a drug trafficking ring between Mexico and Japan was arrested in Mexico last week, the Ministry of Public Security said Saturday.
Climate change is altering diets and lifestyles among Inuit people, according to a scientist who has studied the human face of global warming in the Arctic.
Tomas continued to lose brawn in the Caribbean Sea on Monday morning after pummeling the island of St. Vincent over the weekend, the National Hurricane Center said.
American missionary Laura Silsby will stand trial in Haiti on a charge of arranging irregular travel, a judge ruled Monday, but more serious charges against her and nine fellow missionaries were dropped.
At least 141 inmates escaped Friday from a prison in Mexico’s northeast border city of Nuevo Laredo, Notimex reported, citing an official.
In a sign that the use of more sophisticated weapons may become routine in Mexico’s war against the drug cartels, officials in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, were studying an explosive projectile launched at federal police Sunday night during a shootout.
A 7.2 magnitude earthquake struck northwest Mexico’s Baja California on Sunday, rattling Arizona and southern California, and leaving at least two dead and 100 injured in Mexico, authorities said.
World-renowned photographer Peter Turnley traveled to Haiti after the earthquake to document the lives of people burying their dead and trying to rebuild.
A sudden, unexpected rainstorm has killed 10 people, including three children, in earthquake-ravaged Haiti, a United Nations spokeswoman said Tuesday.
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