Trapped beneath his collapsed home in Port-au-Prince, rescuers had to amputate Georges Exantus’ right leg in order to free him.
Ophelia quickly ran out of steam over the cold Atlantic waters off Newfoundland on Monday, ending the storm’s run as a hurricane as it swept past the Avalon Peninsula.
Chilean officials were awaiting the arrival of a main drill and other equipment to begin boring a rescue shaft in a months-long operation to reach 33 miners who have been trapped underground for more than three weeks.
Guatemala’s Constitutional Court overnight Tuesday upheld a supreme court ruling that barred former first lady Sandra Torres from running as a presidential candidate in upcoming elections.
President Evo Morales sought Wednesday to drum up support for his move over the weekend to end subsidies on the price of gasoline, a decision that resulted in the largest gas price increase in 30 years and led to protests in some cities.
Heavy rain that has killed at least 60 people in Central America is not expected to let up soon, authorities said Monday.
Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva was meeting Tuesday morning with his emergency Cabinet as flooding in two northeastern states killed at least 40 people and left more than 100,000 homeless, the Agencia Brasil state news agency and civil defense officials reported.
Bolivian indigenous leaders vow to keep fighting a road project through a national park on their ancestral homeland even though President Evo Morales said he would suspend construction pending a national dialogue.
Six people, including one minor, were killed Sunday in a natural gas explosion at a resort in Playa del Carmen, Mexico, authorities and state media reported.
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.
At least 20 people have died due to torrential downpours in Haiti, authorities said Tuesday, and aid agencies are scrambling to respond to a resurgence of cholera triggered by the heavy rain.
Teodoro “El Teo” Garcia Simental, one of Mexico’s most wanted drug traffickers, was arrested Tuesday, Mexican and U.S. authorities said.
The Bahamas worked to return to normal Thursday evening after the worst of Hurricane Irene hammered the Caribbean island chain.
A spacecraft survived the closest encounter ever with a comet on Thursday, tracking it just 435 miles from the comet’s nucleus.
Costa Rica’s first female candidate held a two-to-one lead in the country’s presidential election, as the second-place candidate, Otton Solis of the Citizen’s Action Party, conceded defeat.
Ten people were killed and 18 injured in clashes between “criminal gangs” in a southwestern Mexican town, Mexico’s federal government said Saturday.
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