A former Mexican senator was reported missing on Saturday, Mexico’s attorney general’s office 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.
Twenty-six people were killed and 15 were rescued from a fire at a rehabilitation center in Lima, Peru, the state-run Andina news agency reported.
Brazil’s tourism minister has resigned amid corruption allegations, the latest in a string of cabinet defections that have occurred under a cloud of suspicion.
Authorities pushing to clear earthquake-relief bottlenecks in Haiti hope to restore two-way traffic at the city’s south pier by Friday.
A new drill in Chile that could speed the rescue of trapped miners arrived at the rescue scene on Friday with great jubilation from families of the workers.
Polar bears clinging to melting ice sheets have become one of the most frequently used images to portray the perils of climate change.
The suspect in the disappearance of a Maryland woman during a vacation in Aruba had taken out a travel insurance policy on her, an island official said Wednesday.
Police in southern Ontario are hunting for a man who purchased a large amount of ammonium nitrate fertilizer — enough, officials say, to make a bomb.
Tropical Storm Paula, with maximum sustained winds of 60 mph, has formed in the Caribbean, the National Hurricane Center said Monday.
The two leading candidates in Colombia’s presidential race will compete in a runoff June 20, since neither garnered more than 50 percent of the vote in Sunday’s election.
An Argentinian court is expected to render its verdict Wednesday in the trial of a former dictator on charges of human rights abuses during the nation’s right-wing rule from 1976-83, the government’s Judicial Information Center said.
Laura Pollan, a founder of one of Cuba’s leading dissident groups, died Friday, her daughter said.
The Mexican government is planning to make BP and the United States pay for damages and for costs associated with the company’s ruptured oil well in the Gulf of Mexico, the state news agency Notimex reported Monday.
The torch for the 2010 Vancouver Olympics was lit in a ceremony at the ancient Greek site of Olympia on Thursday, less than four months ahead of the games’ opening ceremony.
A 6.0-magnitude earthquake struck southern Panama early Saturday morning, the U.S. Geological Survey said.
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