At times, counterfeiting can be a good thing. Just ask the district attorney in Brooklyn, New York.
Rescue workers in Ecuador believe they are closing in on two of the four miners who were trapped underground after a part of a mine collapsed last week, the state news agency reported Tuesday.
The creation of new power capacity from renewable energy has exceeded new fossil fuel power generation in the United States and Europe for the second year running, according to two United Nations reports published Thursday.
A missing 4-year-old Mexican girl, whose body was found under a mattress in her bedroom, died of asphyxiation, officials said.
A 7.1-magnitude earthquake struck the central coastal area of Chile on Sunday, some 70 kilometers (45 miles) northwest of Temuco, the U.S. Geological Survey said. There were no immediate reports of major damage or injury.
Violence in Jamaica surrounding the planned extradition to the U.S. of a suspected drug kingpin continued Monday, with shots fired at police officers as they sought to clear roads in Kingston, police said.
The number of political prisoners held in Cuba has dropped by 34 inmates since January, the island’s unofficial commission on human rights and national reconciliation reported Monday.
At least 141 inmates escaped Friday from a prison in Mexico’s northeast border city of Nuevo Laredo, Notimex reported, citing an official.
Rain associated with Tropical Storm Tomas began falling on Haiti on Thursday afternoon as aid agencies scrambled to move as many people as possible into storm shelters.
Joel Rathon had two missions Friday: bury his wife and save his son.
Nearly all of the 33 Haitian children whom American missionaries allegedly tried to take out of the earthquake-ravaged nation were reunited Wednesday with their families, weeks after they were separated.
State Department analysts raised questions about the psychological state and health of Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, according to a December 2009 cable recently published by WikiLeaks.
American aid worker Alan Gross is set to go on trial in Cuba on Friday in a case that plunged bilateral relations to a new low.
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.
The United Nations stepped up its defense Thursday of its beleaguered boss with high-level staffers speaking out in support of Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.
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