Costa Rica elected its first female president, as the ruling National Liberation Party claimed a historic victory.
The 63-year-old bearded fireplug of a man erupted in tears, pulled a white handkerchief from his back pocket, carefully unfolded it and pressed it into his eyes, pulled it away, pressed it again to his eyes, this time with more force, pulled it away again just long enough to take a sip of water, then rubbed them again.
Bermuda, which hasn’t seen a major hurricane in some seven years, is about to get walloped by Igor, which forecasters termed large and dangerous Saturday night.
Survivors still emerged from collapsed buildings in Haiti’s devastated capital Sunday, nearly five days after a 7.0-magnitude earthquake struck the impoverished island nation.
“I was caught because I was an illegal,” explained a bicycle taxi driver as he gripped the rusted blue handle-bars of his vehicle in Havana’s Central Park. “And because I’d been here several times before, I was deported back.”
Hurricane Igor weakened late Monday, but maintained its status as a powerful Category 4 storm as it churned in the open waters of the Atlantic.
Only when flying over the treetops of the Brazilian Amazon was I finally able to comprehend the scale of the forest.
As Hurricane Frank gained strength far from land over the Pacific Ocean on Thursday morning, southern Mexico dealt with the aftermath of the system’s assault on the mainland earlier in the week.
High ranking officials in North Korea on Wednesday paid their respects during the state funeral of the country’s second-highest ranking military officer, Jo Myong Rok, according to the official Korean Central News Agency.
An explosion Thursday at a Mexican electrical substation injured 12 people, most of them firefighters or other rescue personnel, the state-run news agency reported.
Rescuers in Chile have just another 89 meters (292 feet) left to drill and are expected to break through into the area where 33 miners are trapped by Saturday, Chilean Mines Minister Laurence Golborne said Thursday.
The U.S. State Department on Thursday issued a travel alert for U.S. citizens living in or visiting Bolivia because of the massive protests in the country’s southwest.
Israeli rescuers pulled a 22-year-old man from the ruins of a three-story building on Friday — 10 days after the massive earthquake killed tens of thousands of people.
Through the afternoon downpour a horse plods along a muddy mountain path. I can smell him almost before he rounds the bend. He’s weighed down with more than 50 kilograms (110 pounds) of freshly-picked marijuana.
With 25 people killed in violent outbreaks, Thursday was one of Chihuahua state’s deadliest days of the year, the state Investigations Agency said on Friday.
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