A magnitude 5.6 earthquake hit Chile’s central coast on Tuesday, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.
The score was tied at 53. The game was in overtime. The mood, electric.
Tropical Storm Maria was passing by Bermuda on Thursday and was expected to strengthen into a hurricane, the National Hurricane Center said.
Peruvian President Alan Garcia will meet Monday with U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who is in Lima for the 40th General Assembly of the Organization of American States, Peru’s state-run news agency said.
Hurricane Richard made landfall just south of Belize City Sunday night, said CNN Meteorologist Jacqui Jeras.
Emergency officials scrambled to open shelters as Jova rapidly strengthened off Mexico’s Pacific coast early Monday, becoming a major hurricane with 120 mph winds, forecasters said.
Only three bodies have been found near the site where a boat carrying about 100 migrants capsized off the Dominican Republic’s coast, authorities said Monday.
Packing winds of up to 120 mph, Hurricane Irene buffeted the Bahamas on Wednesday afternoon as it marched up the island chain and toward the U.S. East Coast.
Wind and rain whipped the Mexican resort community of Cozumel early Friday as Tropical Storm Rina brushed the Yucatan Peninsula.
From his cell in the notorious Palmasola prison in the eastern Bolivian city of Santa Cruz, New Yorker Jacob Ostreicher counts down the days to Rosh Hashanah.
Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, made its own history Tuesday as its homicide rate reached 3,000 deaths for the year — 10 times the number of killings annually that the border city counted just a few years ago.
It’s a question that will probably never be answered: Would guns have made a difference?
A team of forensic experts who testified in a high-profile trial that saw former members of the Guatemalan army convicted of crimes against humanity have received death threats for their participation, Amnesty International said Friday.
Some 62 worshippers — including 19 minors — have sequestered themselves inside a Pentecostal church in Havana for a “spiritual retreat” for the last three weeks, sparking concerns about their safety and speculation about a potential of a standoff with authorities.
Cuban dissident Guillermo Farinas was awarded the European Parliament’s 2010 Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought on Thursday.
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