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NASA teams usually use their knowledge to help astronauts many miles above the earth’s surface. But on Tuesday, a group of experts from the U.S. space agency will share their advice for the 33 miners who have been trapped 2,300 feet underground in Chile since August 5.
One lucky boy in Canada can say without a doubt that he has his own personal guardian angel — not of the spiritual kind, but of the furry.
Protests erupted around the Haitian capital Tuesday night after an election council announced a runoff between a former first lady and a candidate allied with an increasingly unpopular government.
A judge ordered the release Thursday of a popular Mexican singer accused of raping a teenager on grounds that not enough evidence existed for trial, state media said.
Describing himself as the “new kid on the block,” British Prime Minister David Cameron said this weekend’s G8 and G-20 summits in Canada should be about “more than big talk.”
In response to severe flooding in northeastern Brazil that has left 46 people dead, the government on Thursday announced the release of 500 million reais (U.S. $277 million) to help victims, national civil defense officials 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.
Barbados Prime Minister David Thompson has died at age 48, the government of the Caribbean island confirmed Saturday.
The death toll from Saturday’s 8.8-magnitude earthquake in Chile has reached nearly 800, the National Emergency Office said Wednesday.
An Antarctic cruise ship was under way again Wednesday after spending a day slowed by electrical malfunctions in rough weather and crashing cold waves, the organization that promotes the southernmost cruises said.
At least nine people died in shootouts over the weekend in northeastern Mexico, an area where two drug cartels have been waging a bloody war since January.
Porfirio “Pepe” Lobo Sosa was sworn in Wednesday as president of Honduras, bringing an end to the de facto government that ruled the country following a June coup.
As recently as 100 years ago, Montana’s Glacier National Park had more than 150 glaciers throughout its more than one million acres.
The Colombian military on Sunday rescued Gen. Luis Mendieta and Col. Enrique Murillo, two top national police officers held by the FARC guerrillas for nearly 12 years, President Alvaro Uribe announced.
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