Land ahoy! ‘Record-breaking’ sailor home after three years
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Adventurer Reid Stowe is due to set foot on dry land Thursday for the first time in over three years.
Back in the mid-zeroes, I remember reading a lot of stories about a buildup of trash in the Pacific Ocean so massive that it had formed a floating island of waste the size of Texas. Its colorful nickname was the Great Eastern Garbage Patch, and what was even more mind-boggling than the purported scale was that pretty much the only places you could dig up any substantial info about it were in minor oceanographic and environmental publications. You also couldn’t find a photo of it to save your life. It was like Garbage Brigadoon.
Three days after a consumers’ group called for a meat boycott, the head of Argentina’s beef industry said Thursday prices will fall by week’s end.
Cuba is launching its own version of Wikipedia Tuesday with an online encyclopedia that describes the United States as the “empire of our time.”
Two weeks after a 7.0-magnitude earthquake devastated Haiti, the numbers have mounted. The numbers tell stories of death and destruction, as well as a global outpouring of aid.
Blind violinist Romel Joseph laid in what he called his “grave” for 18 hours.
A traffic crash in Bolivia has killed eight people, police said Saturday.
Wearing his signature olive green fatigues, former Cuban President Fidel Castro made his first institutional appearance in four years Saturday, addressing a special session of the communist nation’s National Assembly.
The Pan American Health Organization announced Tuesday it is increasing its planning to treat 400,000 cholera cases within the next year, up from a previous estimate of 270,000 over several years as a result of the outbreak in Haiti, an official said Tuesday.
Violence in Jamaica surrounding the planned extradition to the United States of an alleged drug kingpin continued Monday, with police saying a number of people had died in an attack on the suspect’s stronghold in West Kingston.
A former U.S. congressman was among a group of American attorneys accompanying former Haitian dictator Jean-Claude “Baby Doc” Duvalier as he spoke in the country’s capital Friday.
Venezuela has asked Interpol to arrest the owner of the only TV station still openly critical of leftist President Hugo Chavez, the government announced Friday.
Eight people died early Monday in Buenos Aires, Argentina, when a city bus and a police ambulance collided, the government news agency reported.
The death toll in a coal mine explosion in Colombia increased to 18 Friday with the early morning recovery of two more bodies, a state government spokesman said.
When Jean-Claude Duvalier became Haiti’s “president for life,” it wasn’t meant to be.
Paraguay’s president is expected to meet with human rights groups Sunday to clarify the effects of a law that temporarily suspends constitutional rights in the north of the country.
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