Using high-tech robotic cameras, a team of scientists is getting a rare first glimpse of marine life in the North Atlantic that could shed light on the ocean’s ecosystem and climate to as far back as 1,000 years.
Gunmen shot dead Argentine folk singer Facundo Cabral Saturday as his car made its way to the airport in Guatemala City, police said.
Ophelia strengthened into a Category 3 hurricane Friday, boasting winds of 115 mph as it barreled north-northwest across the Atlantic, the National Hurricane Center said.
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Costa Rica elected its first female president, as the ruling National Liberation Party claimed a historic victory.
The leader of Colombia’s main leftist rebel group — the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia — died in a military operation in the country’s southwest, President Juan Manuel Santos said Saturday.
A Spanish court on Tuesday approved the extradition of former Guatemalan Interior Minister Carlos Vielmann to his homeland to face 10 murder charges stemming from incidents at two prisons there.
A top drug lord has been gunned down in Mexico after two days of shootouts between armed forces and members of a criminal organization, a national security spokesman said Friday.
President Barack Obama will lay out the U.S. view of the “seismic change” seen around the world in the past year, particularly in the Arab world, when he speaks to the United Nations on Wednesday, aides said.
Prosecutors asked Wednesday for a 25-year sentence for Argentina’s last dictator, who is on trial on charges that he violated human rights during his 17-month rule in the early 1980s.
Sloths are fantastically weird animals, the junkies of the jungle who seem to spend their lives either nodding off or scratching and occasionally eating a bean or two before drifting back to what looks like a blissful sleep.
Sitting in the shade away from the heat, Jean Frank is making a fishing net that he hopes will help him return to his life as a fisherman.
Porfirio “Pepe” Lobo Sosa was sworn in Wednesday as president of Honduras, bringing an end to the de facto government that ruled the country following a June coup.
Cuba’s Roman Catholic Church on Thursday announced the names of five more prisoners to be freed who do not belong to a group of 52 jailed dissidents originally set for release.
Throngs of revelers gathered around Times Square in New York City early Sunday to ring in the New Year amid cheers, glittering confetti and fireworks in one of many festivities worldwide.
A preliminary hearing for Joran van der Sloot in Peru was postponed for a week Wednesday, according to Ricardo Flores, the father of the young woman van der Sloot is accused of killing.
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